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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'Read the Bride of Lammermoor'Mary Shelley Walter ScottTales of my Landlord (3rd series: The Bride of Lam...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators'Mary Shelley Walter ScottTales of My Landlord (3rd series: The Bride of Lam...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished the last "Tales of My Landlord" of which the fourth volume is the worst. I think Walter Scott has the peculiar art of growing worse and worse yet preserving his...Benjamin Newton Walter ScottTales of my Landlord or Black Dwarf and old MortalPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plat...Percy Bysshe Shelley Walter ScottTales of my Landlord [First Series - The Black Dwa...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the Black dwarf'Mary Shelley Walter ScottTales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Je...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Tales of my Landlord'Mary Shelley Walter ScottTales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Je...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Tales of my Landlord'Mary Shelley Walter ScottTales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Je...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...anon Tales of ShipwrecksPrint: Serial / periodical, probably penny numbers
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Matthew LewisTales of Terror
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Henry William Weber (ed.)Tales of the East: Comprising the most Popular Rom...Print: Book
1700-1799'Took Pindar's "Tales of Hoy" to the library; I think it much inferior to most of his other publications which I have seen. Corinna's "Epitaph", which I have transcribed...Joseph Hunter Peter PindarTales of the Hoy, interspersed with songPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Thursday, 13 March 1828: 'I found that like the foolish virgins the servants had omitted to get oil for my lamp so I was obliged to be idle all the evening. But though...Walter Scott Gerald GriffinTales of the Munster FestivalsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoyed your tales, the uneasy ones ["Tales of the Uneasy"]—nasty on any night before going to bed. I wonder which famous case you were thinking of when y...William Henry Hudson Violet HuntTales of the UneasyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read "Tales of Two People".'John Frederick William Dunn Anthony Hope HawkinsTales of Two PeoplePrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening finishes it. Write Greek -- Read Smellie.' ...Claire Clairmont Matthew Gregory LewisTales of WonderPrint: Book
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846: 'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics]Tales on the Game Laws[end italics] I began, but th...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Harriet MartineauTales on the Game LawsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost forgotten. Always the same reality -- like touching...Virginia Woolf A. B. GoldenveizerTalks with TolstoiPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding "Bartimeus"Tall Ship, APrint: Book
1900-1945'Minutes of Meeting held at School House. 3rd April 1943
    R. D. L. Moore in the Chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & s...		Elsie Harrod anon Tam LinUnknown
1800-1849'The storm around might roar and rustle We didna mind the storm a whistle'. Walter Scott Robert BurnsTam o' ShanterUnknown


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