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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
 
1850-1899'went into the office where I wrote a little article in reply to a stupid Leader that appeared in The Telegraph of this morning & which contained a lot of rot with regard...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In "Telegraph" of 31st June [sic] is a notice of the poisonous water of the pumps of London.'John Ruskin [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar ...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]TelemaquePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as Astronomical Speculation: unless indeed the Study of ...Hester Lynch Thrale Thomas BurnetTelluris Theoria SacraPrint: Book
1800-1849'In my sixth year [...] Nothing could contribute so much to my amusement as a novel. A novel at six years may appear ridiculous, but it was a real desire that I felt, ...Elizabeth Barrett Amelia OpieTemper, or Domestic ScenesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I [Harriet Martineau] remember my mother and sister coming home with swollen eyes and tender spirits after spending an evening with Miss Opie, to hear "Temper," which sh...Amelia Opie Amelia OpieTemper, or Domestic Scenes: A TaleManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I [Harriet Martineau] remember my mother and sister coming home with swollen eyes and tender spirits after spending an evening with Miss Opie, to hear "Temper," which sh...Elizabeth Martineau and daughterAmelia OpieTemper, or Domestic Scenes: A TalePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTempest, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads the Tempest alout [sic] - & the Bible & Sophocles to himself'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareTempest, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareTempest, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'The programme included [...] a Shakespearean reading in the garden from the Tempest in which many members and some visitors took part'Members of the XII Book Club, and guestsWilliam ShakespeareTempest, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'F.J. Edminson read an able and interesting paper on "The Tempest".'Frederick J. Edminson William ShakespeareTempest, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899The circulating record of the Cardigan Book Society suggests that this reader read the work, as the "Remarks" section of the record is filled in (although the remarks are...Mrs Miles Temple BarPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Came home read a story in Temple Bar, drank my grog smoked my pipe & went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Temple BarPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel: William Smith: "I saw [the prisoner] serving in the shop and bought this book of him... I ...William Smith Temple of ReasonPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in ... Mar. 1810, during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading his copy of The Temple ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge George HerbertTemple, ThePrint: Book
1600-1699'This day in the barge I took Berchensha's translation of Alsted his "Templum"; but the most ridiculous book, as he hath translated it, that I ever saw in my life; I decl...Samuel Pepys John BirchenshaTemplum MusicumPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..."Henry James TempsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'My gouty wrist has kept me from thanking you immediately for the volume of poems that you so kindly sent me. [...] What more can I say to give you an idea of the pleasur...Joseph Conrad Louis-Marie-Emile RochéTemps perduPrint: 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 Anthony ArmstrongTen Minute AlibiPrint: Book


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