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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-189914 June 1853: 'Another lovely morning, Euclid tilll 8.'Lady Charlotte Guest Euclid  Print: Book
1850-189924 June 1853: 'Mr. White [doctor] came early and found Mr. Schreiber much the same [with feverish illness]. He had asked again for me and I went up. He begged me to pr...Lady Charlotte Guest The Prayer BookPrint: Book
1850-1899'Try two of Schubert?s songs ?Ich ungl?cksel?ger Atlas? and ?Du sch?nes Fischerm?dchen?. They are very jolly.Robert Louis Stevenson Heinrich Heine[poems]Unknown
1850-1899'I have read aloud my death-cycles from Walt Whitman this evening. I was very much affected myself, never so much before, and it fetched the auditory considerable. Readin...Robert Louis Stevenson Walt Whitmanprobably Leaves of GrassPrint: Book
1850-1899'Also I have been hearing ?Adelaide? many times; O! That is all I can say..'Robert Louis Stevenson Friedrich von MatthissonAdelaideUnknown
1850-1899I don?t know whether I imagined it, but I thought there seemed something wrong between us this afternoon.[?] Perhaps, however, you may think I have behaved nastily to you...Robert Louis Stevenson Bob StevensonletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'... I find I have nothing to say that has not been already perfectly said and perfectly sung in Adelaide.'Robert Louis Stevenson Friedrich von MatthisonAdelaidePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'In a shop in Buchanan Street, there was exposed a little gold wristlet with 'Phil. 1.3' upon it; look it up in the New Testament and take the text, meine schone Freundin...Robert Louis Stevenson Paul Epistle to the Philippians, I.3Print: wristlet
1850-1899'One gravestone was erected by Scott .. to the poor woman who served him as a heroine in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, and the inscription in its stiff Jedediah Cleishbotham ...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: gravestone
1850-1899'Try, by way of change, Byron?s "Mazeppa", you will be astonished. It is grand and no mistake, and one sees through it a fire, and a passion, and a rapid intuition of gen...Robert Louis Stevenson George Gordon Lord ByronMazeppaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Many thanks. I have received the 15 quid, and the "Portfolio" proof.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonNotes on the Movements of Young Children.Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay
1850-1899'I have written a review of Lauder?s "Scottish Rivers" for the "Academy" which I think you will like; I should not have done it just now, but I was in the humour ? and I ...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Dick LauderScottish RiversPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I amused myself by reading "Cast up from the Sea" a book written by Mr Baker the Explorer. It served well to wile away a couple of hours'John Buckley Castieau BakerCast up from the seaPrint: Book
1850-1899'After tea I went to the Athenaeum & read the papers in the reading room'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'A great Article was published in the Age newspaper this morning upon Prison labor this time the Castlemaine Gaol was commented upon'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I had some books to read & when I could get anything at all like an easy position in bed I stayed satisfied.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'This night I went to bed at ten o'clock. Polly stayed down stairs reading'Polly Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I amused myself reading the Saturday Age'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'in the afternoon amused myself as well as I could with the newspapers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper


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