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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
 
1900-1945'After a wait of two months as a trial prisoner, during which I was able to do a considerable amount of reading, I was taken to the Guildhall for trial'. Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'After all my contrivances I found but little convenience for reading, except on the Sunday. I always kept a book in my pocket, that it might be at hand in case I should ...Thomas Carter [unknown][various]Print: Book
1800-1849'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy of your two last poems kindly sent to me by Murray, t...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron'Parisina'Print: Book
1800-1849'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy of your two last poems kindly sent to me by Murray, t...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron'Siege of Corinth, The'Print: Book
1800-1849'After an interval of 5 hours, spent in reading the Edinr Review and excecuting various commissions, I resume my lucubrations. the unhappy carrier is not come.'Thomas Carlyle VariousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'After arranging for the little gunner captain to go straight through from Fas so as to be in Kuweit [sic] by 8, and testing Marris' verse translation of Horace's "Odes",...Ronald Storrs HoraceThe Odes of Horace, Books i-iv, and the Saecular H...Print: Book
1900-1945'After breakfast & a short walk we start work on Thucydides — a desperately dull and tedious Greek historian.'Clive Staples Lewis ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'After breakfast I postponed the things I ought to do by a little reading and knitting. Then I wrote letters till lunch. Continued this after lunch - this comes of refu... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'After breakfast I went to see the sick folks & then read several chapters of the bible & Testament, then did some S. Hind. P. Walker brought a can of Lobster which w...James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'After breakfast I went to see the sick folks & then read several chapters of the bible & Testament, then did some S. Hind. P. Walker brought a can of Lobster which w...James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]Manual of DevotionPrint: Book
1800-1849'After breakfast we read, sauntered in the beautiful garden, called on the Howitts, shopped (so amusing) received callers, listened to Thekla's magnificent playing-' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell  Print: Book
1850-1899'After breakfast we went on the Lake; and Miss B and I agreed in thinking Mr Moseley a good goose; in liking Mr Newman's soul, - in liking Modern Painters, and the idea o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1800-1849'After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brother William was here; not liking the appearance of you...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brother William was here; not liking the appearance of you...Joseph Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'After breakfast, when the sun burned too fiercely on deck, went below, threw off coat and waistcoat for coolness, and began to read Macaulay's essay on Bacon - "the grea...John Mitchel Thomas Babington MacaulayEssays [on Bacon]Print: Book
1900-1945'After carrying out psychic research and reading reports and hypotheses by Lodge, Crookes, J.A. Findlay etc. I know to my own satisfaction that death is a mere passing on... LodgeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'After carrying out psychic research and reading reports and hypotheses by Lodge, Crookes, J.A. Findlay etc. I know to my own satisfaction that death is a mere passing on... CrookesunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'After carrying out psychic research and reading reports and hypotheses by Lodge, Crookes, J.A. Findlay etc. I know to my own satisfaction that death is a mere passing on...J A FindlayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o...Frank Richards[school stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o...Thomas HughesTom Brown's School DaysPrint: Book


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