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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
 
1800-1849'We breakfasted with Miss Seymour; 36 and, after writing and reading, we started at a quarter to eleven with her and our Highland party.'Queen Victoria unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'we came back in the dark and read "L'Ecole des Maris" and after we played at 21'Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Moliere [pseud.]L'Ecole des MarisPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'We certainly do not think it as a [italics] whole [end italics], equal to P. & P. - but it has many & great beauties. Fanny is a delightful Chracter! and Aunt Norris is...Francis William Austen Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'We certainly do not think it ["Mansfield Park"] as a whole equal to P & P - but it has many & great beauties...'Francis William Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1900-1945'We continued riding towards Leijun over the flat, stony plateau with scarcely a shrub to break the monotony. It was so monotonous that I read an "Argosy" Magazine ...Doreen Ingrams [n/a] [n/a]Argosy MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'We did not begin reading [the proof-sheets of "Mansfield Park"] till Bentley Green. Henry's approbation hitherto is even equal to my wishes; he says it is very differen...Henry Austen Jane AustenMansfield ParkManuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
1800-1849'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ myself in reading, and Mr Preston lends me any book...Thomas Babington Macaulay  Print: Book
1700-1799'We dined on the remains of Wednesday and yesterday's dinners with the addition of a cheap kind of soup, the receipt for making of which I took out of "The Universal Maga...Thomas Turner The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasurePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'We do not much like Mr Cooper's new Sermons; they are fuller of Regeneration & Conversion than ever - with the addition of his zeal in the cause of the Bible Society.'Jane Austen Edward CooperTwo Sermons Preached at WolverhamptonPrint: Book
1800-1849'we each [Elizabeth Barrett and her brother Edward] are blessed with abilities -- my dear Bro's are more solid & more profound -- mine are more refined & dazzling [...]...Elizabeth Barrett Cicero unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'We entrained about 3 pm in cattle trucks. The Belgians had straw in theirs, and 20 men to a truck. We had 40 men, and no straw. A further distinction was made with the a...James Clifford Farrant unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Graffito, Chalk-written sign.
1850-1899'We even sat on deck though the ship rolled too much to allow of our having up deck chairs. Read Rose's "Greek War" lent me by Sir W.S. [Smith]; "Life of Nicholson" the d...Gertrude Bell F. Marion CrawfordCorleone: A Tale of SicilyPrint: Book
1850-1899'We even sat on deck though the ship rolled too much to allow of our having up deck chairs. Read Rose's "Greek War" lent me by Sir W.S. [Smith]; "Life of Nicholson" the d...Gertrude Bell William Kinneard RoseWith the Greeks in ThessalyPrint: Book
1850-1899'We even sat on deck though the ship rolled too much to allow of our having up deck chairs. Read Rose's "Greek War" lent me by Sir W.S. [Smith]; "Life of Nicholson" the d...Gertrude Bell Lionel James TrotterThe Life of John Nicholson: soldier and administra...Print: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'We fell to wondering, while the evening light faded from land to sea, what the meagre history of Ineboli could be - so remote it seemed, so forgotten - and it pres...Gertrude Bell StraboGeographicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'We find ''Pickwick'' not at all too low for our taste, and it reads aloud much better than to oneself.'Emma Wedgewood and Wedgewood/Allen familyCharles DickensThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'We finished today to read Russels "Modern History", which is perfectly well wrote and in a very intertaining [sic] manner'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne William RussellHistory of Modern EuropePrint: Book
1850-1899'we first drew the curtains all round her four-post bed, so that it was quite dark inside; and then, having pulled them back again, we took off our shoes and all got into...Henrietta Litchfield Jean IngelowDon JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849'We formed a book-club amongst ourselves, chose and purchased some special favourite, or one which we heard praised, read it in turn, and then sold it by auction'Elizabeth Missing Sewell and school friends [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on "Infidelity; its As...anon Thomas PearsonInfidelity; its Aspects, Causes and AgenciesPrint: Book


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