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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'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 Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occurrd upon reading Sir Launcelot Greaves on the road. B...Robert Southey Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'I proceeded on sad & solitary to Hounslow & there gave one shilling for Sir Launcelot Greaves to amuse m...Robert Southey Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves Print: Book
1600-1699'So down the River, reading "The Adventures of five houres", which the more I read the more I admire.'Samuel Pepys Sir Samuel TukeThe Adventures of the five houresPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and betimes with Captain Erwin down by water to Woolwich, I walking alone from Greenwich tither - making an end of "The Adventures of five houres", - which when all ...Samuel Pepys Sir Samuel TukeThe Adventures of the five houresPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom SawyerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tom Sawyer’s ingenious antics are at present my principal book and bible. I have also found a red 6/- novel called “Impertinent Reflections”, which might fill up any odd...Edmund Blunden Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom SawyerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have had a weekend's C.B. Unshaven on parade ... from six to ten on Saturday and Sunday nights I had to double 600 yards to the guardroom, to report, every half-hour, ...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Mark Twain (pseud.)The Adventures of Tom SawyerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read "[The] Advertisement" yesterday only--thrice over. très fort.' Joseph Conrad (Basil) Macdonald HastingsThe Advertisement: A Play in Four Acts Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Virgil The AeneidPrint: Book
1850-1899'Is it the third or the fifth book of Virgil you so much liked; I have taken to reading the third.'Robert Louis Stevenson VirgilThe Aeneid, Books III and probably VPrint: Book
1800-1849'I now thank you very much for your able inauguration essay on Architecture and live in expectation of its successors.'Alfred Tennyson Coventry PatmoreThe aesthetics of gothic architecturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read two books lately, one in French called "L'Éveil" and another by Una Silberrad called "John "Bolsover". We buy odd books in the village and pass them on when we have...Douglas Herbert Bell Una L. SilberradThe Affairs of John BolsoverPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the Age of this morning there appeared a short Leading article strongly advocating my being sent Home to see the European Prisons, the writer spoke in very flattering...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went for early stroll, called at Mr Reed's & read The Age'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read The Age at Mr Reed's the first thing in the morning. Came home had breakfast & transacted ordinary business.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went for a short stroll. Called at the Main Gaol, then returned by Collins Street. Called at Reed's and looked over the "Age" then home to breakfast.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'A great Article was published in the Age newspaper this morning upon Prison labor this time the Castlemaine Gaol was commented upon'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I amused myself reading the Saturday Age'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper


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