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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
 
1700-1799Supper alone. 4 Tatlers. Bed 1/2 past 11.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Home 9. Supper below. 3 Tatlers. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Home past 9. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed past 11.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Home near 10. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Tatlers (borrow'd of Mrs Helen D'Enly) 1 1/2 hours.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I read the 2 Vol of the Tatler'John Henry Ott n/aTatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop the...Hilary Spalding TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945

'I finished your MS yesterday and am very much impressed by the ampleness of the scheme, the masterly ease in the handling [of] the subject and (in sober truth) the sh...

Jessie Conrad John GalsworthyTatterdemalionPrint: Book
1700-1799Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress'] w...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonTaxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions ...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress'] w...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonTaxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions ...Print: Pamphlet, proof leaves of a pamphlet with handwritten corrections
1850-1899'Is it right to ask who was the author of a very short contribution called I think Tea at the farm, or some such name? ["Tea at the Mains", by Harriette Cheape] It was ex...Margaret Oliphant Harriette CheapeTea at the MainsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Walter Scott quotes four lines from 'My Jo Janet' in Allan Ramsay's 'Tea-Table Miscellany'.Walter Scott Allan RamsayTea-Table Miscellany: My Jo JanetUnknown
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 UnknownTeach yourself to ThinkPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the "Telegraph" reviews ... in trains and in the evening, lunch-time etc.' [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read the Daily Express because I like its human interest, the Telegraph because of its fairly accurate reporting... I do not like the way the Express gives undue publi... TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Well, I've only read the Telegraph, and I don't like it. Everything is contradicted later.' TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899[having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all quiet and nicely-lighted up; so Flossy began to read a...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell HendschelTelegraphPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe upon the Gaol officials.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'A report in the Telegraph Newspaper this morning was to the effect that the Sheriff would probably be chosen from Mr Wright of the Railway Department & Mr Colles of Cast...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper


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