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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'Weep not for Those'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem].Mary Groom Thomas MooreWeep Not for ThoseUnknown
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton Alain Rene Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton Mary Wortley Montagu[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton [magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton James BoswellTour of the HebridesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of AfricaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton [Madame] de Genlis Print: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton Elizabeth HamiltonThe Cottagers of GlenburniePrint: Book
1900-1945'Well I am getting on topping: today we have been on a brigade field day round a place called "The Devils Punch bowl" It's a piece of land about 3 miles round the top. Th...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Engraved stone.
1900-1945'Well I am getting on topping: today we have been on a brigade field day round a place called "The Devils Punch bowl" It's a piece of land about 3 miles round the top. Th...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Milestone.
1800-1849'Well Sir - I have to thank you for your last, which certainly is the most tasteful Epistle I ever, in my life, received. I verily believe there is not a word of it, tha...Jane Baillie Welsh Thomas CarlyleLetter dated 13 February 1822Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Well sir you have now put the crown on all the injurious abuse that I have suffered from you for these three years and a half, and that in despite of your word of honour...James Hogg [attack on Hogg's 'Memoir' in the new edition of '...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Well you know I think I'd read number 15 first. I did read it the other day as a matter of fact. It's got a bit of a kick to it, you want to see what they say after the ... Fuel economy leaflet 15Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Well! Dearest you have criticised my letter - it is now my turn to criticise yours. Be patient, then, and good-tempered, I beg; for you shall find me a severer critic ...Jane Baillie Welsh Thomas CarlyleLetter dated 20th January 1825Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Well, I have got another change. Am on night duty again, but among the officers. Have been doing it just a week ... It is 5.45 now and I will soon take a cup of te...Thomas Wainwright [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Well, I think Civil Defence is a marvellous racket. It's given me the spare time I've been wanting for years?I've done more solid reading, for instance, than I've done s...[M35B] Anon unknownunknown ["solid reading"]Unknown
1900-1945'Well, I think I really didn't think they were going too well really. I read the leading article in the Chronicle... they try to make things look as bright as possible, I... ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Well, I took it because it's a thriller. That's the reason. I like thrillers, you see. I always read thrillers.' [unknown][thrillers]Print: Book
1850-1899'Well, I was at the annual dinner of my old Academy schoolfellows last night. We sat down ten, out of seventy-two.[?] I read them some verses. It is great fun: I always r...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson[unknown verses]Manuscript: Unknown, Probably sheets of paper or pages from a notebook.


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