Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

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√Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews an "aristocratic" crossing sweeper of Cavendish-square: "There was the Earl of Gainsborough...Billy ? Print: religious tract
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper: "Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What ...John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper: "Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What ... Print: Book, Serial / periodical, novels
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper: "When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; ...Mary ? The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'Your anecdote of Tom [?Thomas Clarkson] that he sate up a...Tom ?Clarkson William Wordsworth?Excursion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of p...Charley ? Tyburn DickPrint: Serial / periodical, penny dreadful
1850-1899A volume of sermons, marked with dates and what appears to be a system of initials - possibly some sort of reminder? E...George BurderVillage sermons: or, fifty-two plain and short discourses on the principal doctrines of the gospel; intended for the use of families, Sunday schools, or companies assembled for religious instructions in country villagesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]|: 7pp (6 ink, 1 pencil) of ms notes of journeys (all in south of England or Wales) in the blank pages fol...John CaryCary's New itinerary: or an accurate delineation of the great roadsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.Lady Annabella Byron (n?e Milbanke) Lady Caroline Lamb[letters and verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'They tell us of an Indian tree/...'Margaret Maingay [?] Thomas Moore'They Tell us of An Indian Tree' OR 'To My Mother'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Friendship' 'O yes I will own we were dear to one another/...' [Oh! Yes, I will own we were dear to each other/...' -...Margaret Maingay [?] George Gordon, Lord ByronTo [George, Earl Delawarr]Print: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'This book made a deep and lasting impression upon me because, apart from its profound human interest in the widest se...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Oscar WildeBallad of Reading Gaol or De ProfundisPrint: Book
1900-1945Author describes being put into cell in Reading Gaol for the first time: 'That completed the furniture in the cell. B...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am not ashamed to confess that during those weeks of imprisonment I too wept both by day and by night; not loudly o...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read somewhere in the Koran, "The fate of every man have we bound about his neck".'Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]KoranPrint: Book
1900-1945'in the Army I spent most of my leisure reading in a desultory fashion anything that aroused my interest. Later on I b...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After a wait of two months as a trial prisoner, during which I was able to do a considerable amount of reading, I was...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Description of first month spent in Winchester Prison after sentence: 'Nearly twenty-three hours out of every twenty-...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I endeavoured to counteract this depression by reading the Bible, the only book I had besides a Prayer Book and a Pro...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'At Winchester I was able to get the first volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall", but had no time to finish it. On ano...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had read about this country [China] with its forty centuries of history - more or less static, but which, at the pr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][book on China]Print: Book
1900-1945'There was also a pretty good library on board [HMS Spartiate], and I suppose the chaplain, who had charge of it, had ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown- various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]Who's WhoPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living 'Works of reference in public libraries fur...Stuart Wood [pseud?] BurkePeeragePrint: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living 'Works of reference in public libraries fur...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]Crockford's Clerical DictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]Army ListPrint: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]Navy ListPrint: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]University RegistersPrint: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]University Year BooksPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read the whole of Shakespeare several times and the character with whom I have most sympathy is poor Hamlet, t...Stuart Wood [pseud?] William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][sermons]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown]Bampton lecturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown]Gifford lecturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][speeches]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Charlotte Bronte[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Emily Bronte[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Anne Bronte[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Jane Austen [?][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] William Makepeace Thackeray[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] George Eliot[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] George Meredith[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Edward Lytton[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Charles Kingsley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Charles Reade[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Thomas [?] Hughes[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Anthony Trollope[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'after I had a bath or a wash we would fall to and spend the rest of the evening round the fire, I reading and Kate se...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown - various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][lives of the Fathers]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][biographies of Christ]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][biographies of St Paul]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][studies on the Apostles]Print: Book
1900-1945Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'To enumerate some of the books I read would be to write a small catalogue;...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown - various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked pu...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Thomas Babbington Macaulay[uknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked pu...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Thomas Carlyle[uknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Thomas Carlyle[uknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Joseph Henry ShorthouseJohn InglesantPrint: Book
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...Stuart Wood [pseud?] George Eliot[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Heinrich Heine[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Pierre Loti[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Friedrich Nietzsche[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][Greek Philosophy]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...Stuart Wood [pseud?] John Locke[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...Stuart Wood [pseud?] David Hume[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...Stuart Wood [pseud?] George Berkeley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Immanuel Kant[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Johann Gottlieb Fichte[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Arthur Schopenhauer[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Gustav Fechner[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Rudolph Hermann Lotze[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I to my office and there made an end of the books of Proposicions; which did please me mightily to hear read, the...Tom Edwards [?] [unknown][Report of the reforming commission of 1618]Unknown
1900-1945'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss A...Miss Angus [?] George Eliot [pseud.]RomolaPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835: 'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five...Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam 'comic annual'Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835: 'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five...Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam Mary Russell MitfordBelford RegisPrint: Book
1700-1799Edward Young to Samuel Richardson, 10 December 1745: 'Caroline [?wife] begs her best requests to Mrs Richardson and...Caroline [?Young] HerveyMeditations [?Among the Tombs]Print: Book

 

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