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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'He [Percy Bysshe Shelley] reads the curse of Kehama to us in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'She [Mary] reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock who dines.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.Claire Clairmont Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Sept. 17th. [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Book
1800-1849'It luckily happened that “Kehama” was on board, and that many of the party, at my recommendation, had become familiar with it during the voyage. By the way, what a vast ...Unknown passengers aboard East Indiaman Thomas Grenville, Ramsgate-Calcutta, total duration of voyage June-October 1823Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Book
1800-1849'They sin who tell us Love candie/...' [16 lines] 'Southey'Julia Robert SoutheyThe Curse of Kehama OR 'Love'Print: UnknownUnknown
1600-1699'So anon they went away and then I to read another play, "The Custome of the Country", which is a very poor one methinks.'Samuel Pepys John FletcherThe Custome of the CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tell Arnie [brother] that at Kidwelly I stayed at the Pelican Hotel, where the prices charged me were only 2/3 of those given in the C.T.C. handbook'.Thomas Edward Lawrence [n/a] [n/a]The Cyclists' Touring Club GazettePrint: Serial / periodical, Handbook/Gazette
1900-1945'My life is serious enough without worrying over things like that, so I don't read the papers-only read d'Alroy and Ann Temple. Anyhow-if there's a war I shall be in it, ...Marceline d'AlroyThe d'Alroy DiaryPrint: Book
1850-1899?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some ...Thomas Burt William WordsworthThe DaffodilsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a... [n/a]The Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945John Partridge on popularity of Charles Garvice's fiction: '[at Easter 1911] I looked round a large kiosk at a popular seaside place and observed that Mr Charles Garvice'...John Partridge The Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'[Jim Flowers's ] trade unionist father had given him Tom Paine to read, so he took an internationalist republican view of history. During the First World War, when the h...Jim Flowers n/aThe Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The new faculty had to be fed, however, and my eye fastened on all printed matter. I read passages in the Daily Chronicle which had just replaced the Daily Mail in our h...Richard Church The Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'I called at Squire's [...] my advertisement was not in the Daily Courant. Went into St Dunstan's Church to hear Dr Lupton [is too late] went to the [Royal]Society, Sir I...John Byrom n/aThe Daily CourantPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that had my bone after lunch ... Got a parcel from home wit...Martin Wentworth Littlewood The Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Read "Daily Mail Year Book".'William Thomas The Daily Mail Year BookPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saw a Daily Mirror today which contained a photograph of Georgette, the "Belle of Bray", surrounded by some of our sergeants.'Frank Hawkings The Daily MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 1 November 1849: 'I have just received the "Daily News." [containing review of "Shirley"] ... when I read it my heart sickened...Charlotte Bronte The Daily NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I flew the 1˝ Strutter—great machine. News of Chadwick in The Daily Sketch. He had been compelled to land through engine failure in a field near Tirelemont and co...Charles Philip Oldfield Bartlett The Daily SketchPrint: Newspaper


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