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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
 
1900-1945'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p...George Scott John Steinbeck[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding John SteinbeckThe Moon is DownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Several Norwegians spoke critically to me of John Steinbeck's recent novel, "The Moon is Down".'Vera Brittain John SteinbeckThe Moon is DownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John SterlingArthur ConingsbyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843: 'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have read many of his poems in Blackwood. He falls, to ...Elizabeth Barrett John SterlingpoemsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...Alfred Tennyson John SterlingArthur ConingsbyPrint: Book
1800-1849Just before tea... read from p.126 to 168, collections and recollections the last article a pretty well done account of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby.Anne Lister John StewartCollections and recollectionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been looking over books in the book case where the Dionysius stands, Stow's "Chronicle and survey of London". by wisdom, truth and heed was he/ Advanced an alderm...William Windham John StowThe survey of LondonPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John StrypeThe History of the Life and Acts of the most Rever...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John StrypeMemorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thom...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John StrypeMemorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thom...Print: Book
1700-1799Read 'Sesostris, a new Tragydy'; a so-so one.Gertrude Savile John SturmySesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy.Print: Book
1700-1799Writt till supper. Read 'Sesostris'. Bed near 12.Gertrude Savile John SturmySesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy...Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read Annie S. Swan on her life with considerable respect. ...Virginia Woolf John SummersonJohn Nash, Architect to King George IVPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr T.[aaffe] in the evening - read his notes to Dante'Mary Shelley John TaaffeComment on the Divine Comedy of Dante AlighieriManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this yeardoth not prove so good as the last was; and so after reading it, I burned it. After reading of that a...Samuel Pepys John TathamThe Rump, or The mirror of the late timesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John TaylorAn Essay on MoneyPrint: Book
1800-1849'After reading Junius identified with a living character I am pretty well satisfied that Sir P. Francis was the man.'Benjamin Newton John TaylorJunius identified or the identity of JuniusPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Johnson. At this time I found, upon his table, a part o...James Boswell John TaylorSermons left for publication by the Reverend John ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Johnson. At this time I found, upon his table, a part o...John Taylor John Taylor[sermon]Manuscript: Unknown


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