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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'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being f...Jane Sewell William LempriereTour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Towe...Sarah Harriet Burney John RussellTour in Germany, and some of the southern province...Print: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "He's [Pennant] a [italics] Whig [end italics], Sir; a [italics]sad dog [end italics]. (smiling at his own violent expressions, merely for [italics] political [...Samuel Johnson Thomas PennantTour in Scotland in 1769Print: Book
1700-1799'Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly, as he did at Dunvegan, in the Isle of Sky. Dr. Percy, knowing himself to be the heir male of...Thomas Percy Thomas PennantTour in Scotland in 1769, APrint: Book
1700-1799'Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly, as he did at Dunvegan, in the Isle of Sky. Dr. Percy, knowing himself to be the heir male of...Samuel Johnson Thomas PennantTour in Scotland in 1769, APrint: Book
1700-1799'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Constantinople".'stepson of Anna Larpent SutherlandTour of ConstantinoplePrint: Book
1700-1799'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Constantinople".'Anna Larpent SutherlandTour of ConstantinoplePrint: 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 James BoswellTour of the HebridesPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Persae of Aeschylus & Eustace's travels'Percy Bysshe Shelley John Chetwode EustaceTour through Italy, exhibiting a View of its Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Mary Shelley John Chetwode EustaceTour through Italy, exhibiting a View of its Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Bridones travels - read Livy'Mary Shelley Patrick BrydoneTour through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of Lett...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it appeared, that they were so very different in depth at...Samuel Johnson Patrick BrydoneTour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Lett...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it appeared, that they were so very different in depth at...James Boswell Patrick BrydoneTour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Lett...Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Patrick BrydoneTour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Lett...Print: Book
1700-1799'She used passages from Defoe's "Tour through the whole island of Great Britain" to prepare her two boys for a visit to Windsor Castle in 1792: "I did it", she wrote, "th...Anna Larpent Daniel DefoeTour through the whole island of Great BritainPrint: Book
1800-1849'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".'William LempriereTour to MoroccoPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking turns wit...Jane Sewell LemprierTour to MoroccoPrint: Book
1700-1799'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.'Jane Austen James BoswellTour to the HebridesPrint: Book
1800-1849'We are now reading at the tea table, Evan's Tourist.'John Cole EvansTouristPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in Evan's Tourist. The vulgar pronunciation of Brumidgham is nearer the true derivation than the modern name of Birmingham. "It is said that it was formerly called ...John Cole EvansTouristPrint: Book


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