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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
 
1900-1945'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o...Talbot Baines ReedThe Fifth Form at St Dominic'sPrint: Book
1500-1599'after dimer I talked a whill, and then wrought and hard Mr Maude read of a sermon'Mr Maude [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'after diner I talked of the sarmon, and reed of the bible with some Gentlewemen that were with me'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after diner I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read of a sarmon booke'Richard Rhodes [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'after diner, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after diner, I went about a whill, hard Mr Rhodes Read, and then I went to priuat examenation and praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after Diner, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after dinner ... hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr Cartwright and the Bushoppe of Canterberies booke'Richard Rhodes Thomas CartwrightA Replye to an Answere made of M. Doctor Whitegift...Print: Book
1600-1699'after dinner ... hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr Cartwright and the Bushoppe of Canterberies booke'Richard Rhodes Bishop of Canterbury[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After dinner away home, Mr Brisband along with me as far as the Temple; and there looked upon a new book, set out by one Rycault, secretary to my Lord Winchelsea, of the...Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman Empire By Paul Ry...Print: Book
1850-1899'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.George Eliot [pseud] Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.George Eliot [pseud] Frederic William Henry MyersWordsworthPrint: Book
1600-1699'After dinner by coach as far as the Temple and there saw a new book in Folio of all that suffered for the King in the late times - which I will buy; it seems well writ.'Samuel Pepys David LloydMemories of the lives ... of those noble ... perso...Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'After dinner by water, the day being mighty pleasant and the tide serving finely - I up (reading in Boyles book of Colours) as high as Barne Elmes'Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I and my boy down by water to Redriffe; and thence walked to Mr Evelin's, where I walked in his garden till he came from church, with great pleasure reading...Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas RidleyA view of the civile and ecclesiasticall lawPrint: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I did read of a good book, and then went about the house: then I reed againe'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After dinner I down to Woolwich with a galley, and then to Deptford and so home, all the way reading Sir J Suck[l]ings "Aglaura", which methinks is but a mean play - not...Samuel Pepys Sir John SucklingsAglauraPrint: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I dressed vp my Clositte and read and, to refreshe my selfe beinge dull, I plaied and sunge to the Alpherion'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I talked with som strangers that Came to Mr Hoby, wrought, reed a sarmon'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book


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