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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
 
1850-1899'Was shocked to see by the Argus this morning that Mr Farie was dangerously ill & on enquiring at the office I found it was too true'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'was so ill that I Could not goe to the publecke exercises, but Mr Hoby reed in the morninge to me and praied with me'Thomas Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Was sorry to read in The Argus of this morning that "Tommy Hoyle" the well known Beechworth [?] met with an accident yesterday being thrown from the Coach which passed o...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that he was not insured, a child playing with matches is...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that he was not insured, a child playing with matches is...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Handy AndyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Was to-night reading Lemon's Story of "Wait for the End" and waited myself for the end which I did not reach until after eleven o'clock though I did little more than ski...John Buckley Castieau Mark LemonWait for the EndPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter of the bible. They have all a very good idea of readi...Harry Castieau [n/a]BiblePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter of the bible. They have all a very good idea of readi...Sissy Castieau [n/a]BiblePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter of the bible. They have all a very good idea of readi...Dotty Castieau [n/a]BiblePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I "would write a very elegant and spirited critique on it" - which I am not so cer...Thomas Carlyle Joanna BaillieMetrical Legends of Exalted CharactersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Waverley is so poor and dull.'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'We ... took possession of a chateau in the Rue d'Amiens and moved in. I visited Bastion at 9 pm and took my boots off for the first time since the 7th. Slept peacefully ...Martin Wentworth Littlewood [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'We all liked certain parts of a three-volume story called "Henry Milner"...I believe he never did anything wrong, but his school-fellows did, and all their gay activitie...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Henry MilnerPrint: Book
1700-1799'We all worked very hard, particularly Mr John Jones and me, in order to get money to purchase books; But what we wanted in judgement in choosing our library, we made up ...James Lackington unknownvariousPrint: Book
1800-1849'We are 'here today, & gone tomorrow', as the fat scullion maid said in some extract in Holland's Exercise book.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Holland[Exercise book]Print: Book
1850-1899'We are ... to meet Moncure Conway.We have just been reading a very grand sermon of his on Darwinism.'Emma Darwin Moncure Daniel ConwayunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'We are getting together a good library of 1 franc English books.'Harold Upcott unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'We are greatly pleased with your sketches of 'German character'; your Oken, your pert Surgeon, your Schelli[n]g &c must surely be pictures from the Life. Becker says Ok...Thomas Carlyle John A. CarlyleLetter dated 6th Feb, MunichManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so t...Cornelia Sorabji BrowningunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so t...Cornelia Sorabji ThackerayunknownPrint: Book


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