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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
 
1850-1899'Worked for an hour to day at French and read some Grecian History, The latter is certainly rather dry.'Albert Battiscombe Leonhard SchmitzA History of Greece, from the earliest times to th...Print: Book
1800-1849'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1900-1945'Worked rather intermittantly [sic] as was dying to read the end of "King's Solomon's Mines" [sic]. However, when this was done, I settled down OK.'Hilary Spalding H Rider HaggardKing Solomon's MinesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had declared him obsolete. Kathleen Woodward read Gibbon's...Kathleen Woodward Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had declared him obsolete. Kathleen Woodward read Gibbon's...Kathleen Woodward Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849'Working on 8th and 3rd Books only, examining Plato's fearful judgement on invalids.'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end italics], a heroine was merely a piece of beautiful ...Susan Ferrier Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end italics], a heroine was merely a piece of beautiful ...Susan Ferrier Frances JacsonRhodaPrint: Book
1800-1849'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols...Sarah Harriet Burney Marie de Rabutin - Chantal, marquise de SevigneLetters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and h...Print: Book
1800-1849'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols...Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Adolphe ThiersHistoire de la Revolution FrancaisePrint: Book
1800-1849'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols...Sarah Harriet Burney Carlo BottaStoria d'Italia, continuata da quella del Guicciar...Print: Book
1800-1849'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols...Sarah Harriet Burney Andre MorelletMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols...Sarah Harriet Burney Baron E.L. de la Mothe - HoudancourtMemoires de Madame la comtesse de BarriPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write & read "Contes Moreaux" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after dinner read Rienzi'.Mary Godwin Jean Francois MarmontelContes MoreauxPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write & read "Contes Moreaux" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after dinner read Rienzi'.Mary Godwin Jean Antoine du CerceauConjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty...Print: Book
1800-1849'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio'Mary Shelley LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio'Percy and Mary ShelleyDante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - Read - I am sure I forget what'Mary Shelley [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'Mary Shelley Henry ReveleyEncyclopaediaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'Mary Shelley Daniel DefoeLife and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson...Print: Book


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