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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
 
1700-1799'went to Meeting - had a more comfortable reading with my boys than this day [last] week'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Went to Milton saw a fine Edition of Leniuses Botany [...] saw also a beautiful book on insects with the plants they feed on by Curtis'John Clare John CurtisBritish Entomology ... Insects Found in Great Brit...Print: Book
1900-1945'Went to Rye one lovely hot day. Glorious Sussex cottages covered with roses. Brought E. F. Benson's book with me. Lamb House, where he lived, had been bombed — but ...Vere Hodgson Edward Frederic BensonMiss MappPrint: Book
1850-1899'went to the "Yorick" there was however no one there so I read for a time & then left'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribbage with Dotty'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribbage with Dotty'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted with iodine in the hope "that would cure the cold I g...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted with iodine in the hope "that would cure the cold I g...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to The Athenaeum & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum and read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.George Eliot [pseud] Ludovico Antonio Muratori[unknown, on the Confraternita]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.George Eliot [pseud] Scipioni AmmiratoFamiglie Nobili FiorentiniPrint: Book


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