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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
 
1600-1699'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted'Mr Andrews Samuel Pepys[contract]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'We read Shakespeare'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'We read the French papers where there was a letter of a soldier written to the King of France which is of the grossest insolence and horrifies one. We hear that Jourdain...Elizabeth Wynne and others [n/a][French newspapers]Print: Newspaper, Unknown
1700-1799'We read today in the "Veilees du Chateau" I think that book very good for the young people'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Stephanie Felicite de GenlisVeilees du Chateua ou Cours Morale a l'usage des E...Print: Book
1850-1899'We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.'George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them ... I have not quite finished the anec...Dorothy Wordsworth D. ThiebaultAnecdotes of Frederick IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them. In the first place my Brother and Si...William Wordsworth HutchinsonMemoirs of Colonel HutchinsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'We remained in Paris from 8th September [1869] to the 18th. The effect of the daily articles against the Empire, which Grote devoured with avidity, of course, appeared t...George Grote anti-Empire articlesPrint: Newspaper, Pamphlet, Unknown
1850-1899'We remained in Paris from 8th September [1869] to the 18th. The effect of the daily articles against the Empire, which Grote devoured with avidity, of course, appeared t...Harriet Grote anti-Empire articlesPrint: Newspaper, Pamphlet, Unknown
1600-1699'we returned and I settled to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1900-1945'We returned to England to read, in an evening newspaper bought at Folkestone, of the death of Lord Northcliffe, but a week later another death occurred which seemed, to ...Vera Brittain newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'We rowed past these [floating islands of the Dal Lake] on our way to the Shalimar Gardens, already so well known to me from reading "Lalla Rookh".'Zoe Procter Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
1850-1899'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with a hearty greeting. 'We' are Meta, & Julia - for who...Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and Julia [n/a]Macmillan's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with a hearty greeting. 'We' are Meta, & Julia - for who...Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and JuliaWilliam Makepeace ThackerayVirginians, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'We sat till half-past ten working, and Albert reading, — and then retired to rest.'Prince Albert unknownunknownPrint: Poster, Unknown
1900-1945'We saw dimly some of the lovely African coast. Lots of porpoises lying on the surface of the water, lazily turning up a fin. Hugo and I sat all morning in the sun readin...Gertrude Bell George Grote?History of GreecePrint: Book
1900-1945'We see some funny things when we are censoring our men's letters. One hero wrote home "We are fighting every day" ... One man was pathetically quaint: "Christmas Day we ...Gerald Achilles Burgoyne [letters of men in the Royal Irish Rifles]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'We set off early along a dry river-bed green with date palms on either bank, pursued by thousands of flies which we could not get rid off until we reached the cold...Doreen Ingrams Anon Anon[poems]Print: Book, Read in Arabic
1850-1899'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.'George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt[account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying D...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'we set out on an enquiring expedition, first to yr pastry cook's, where I got a dictionary, and found my words'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][German/English dictionary]Print: Book


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