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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'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the floor of the other room was covered with Mr Heathcote...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Walter ScottPaul's Letters to his KinsfolkPrint: Book
1800-1849'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the floor of the other room was covered with Mr Heathcote...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'We were coasting down Corsica — I saw it out of my bathroom window — in perfect weather, mild and calm and sunny. We passed through the Straits of Bonifac[c]...Gertrude Bell Robert Louis StevensonThe Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his famil...Print: Book
1900-1945'We were in London at a quarter to 2. The evening paper contained a short communiqué saying we had attacked this morning around Albert. Apparently it is not on a very wid...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson [London evening newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'We were sent for to visit Prince and Princess Charles and their children and paid them an agreeable and I hope not unprofitable visit. The Crown Prince and Princess sent...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet b...Samuel Johnson Edward Young Print: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet b...Samuel Johnson John Dryden Print: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet b...Hester Lynch Thrale John Dryden Print: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet b...Hester Lynch Thrale Edward Young Print: Book
1850-1899'We were startled this morning, at seven o'clock, by a letter from Colonel Phipps, enclosing a telegraphic despatch with the report, from the sixth edition of the Sun, of...Queen Victoria SunPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'We were taken round the Archives by the Director. I never saw such a place as the Archives. They are in an enormous building of 4 courts, formerly a monastery, and from...Gertrude Bell  Manuscript: Letter in a bound volume of MSS
1700-1799'We were talking of people who read awkwardly not knowing what they were about: Mr Johnson protested he knew two Lads at Pembroke who lived in the same department and one...William ChillingworthReligion of Protestants a Safe Way to SalvationPrint: Book
1850-1899'We were told that a Bible and Testament were placed at the head of each bed; and we saw one convict reading "Recreations in Astronomy".'anon Rev Lewis TomlinsonRecreations in AstronomyPrint: Book
1900-1945'We were too busy at the counter to join ... the [church] service, but once I worked down in a lull and talked a bit to one lad who was quitely reading his Testament; but... The New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'We were very much pleased with Mr Lovell Edgeworth's narrative which Mrs Marcet showed us, a very little addition from your pen would have made a very delightful fashion...Anne Romilly Richard Lovell Edgeworth[a narrative]Unknown
1850-1899'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I read it for duty's sake, without taking as much inter...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John W. Kaye[possibly] Administration of the East India Compan...Print: Book
1850-1899'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I read it for duty's sake, without taking as much inter...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Malcolm[possibly] Government of India, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John ii...Ronald Storrs Henry Seton Merriman (pseud)The SowersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John ii...Ronald Storrs The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined, as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John i...Ronald Storrs Alfred, Lord Tennyson Print: Book


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