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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
 
1700-1799'There is, in the British Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artful...Dr Warburton John TolandLife of John MiltonPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the 9th mo. [1800] died Thos Rutter, of Bristol ... His amiable character is so ably pourtrayed [sic] in 142 & c of the 1oth part of "Piety Promoted", 43 that it is n...James Jenkins John TomkinsPiety Promoted in Brief Memorials ... Society of FPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have thanked you (mentally) very much for Folious Appearances, the humour, strength - and even affectation of which I like exceedingly. What is the name of the man, ag...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John TuplingFolious appearances. a consideration on our ways o...Print: Book
1800-1849'In the review of Tweddell's Remains where it is said that out of religious motives he refrained from animal food.'Benjamin Newton John TweddellEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation of soul, joined to a high moral character. Goethe's...Charlotte Bury John TweddellRemains of the late John Tweddell, fellow of Trini...Print: Book
1850-1899'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading...Margaret Emily Gaskell John TyndallGlaciers of the Alps, ThePrint: Book
1600-1699'after I Came home Mr Hoby rede to me a sarmon of Vdale'Thomas Hoby John Udall[Sermons]Print: Book
1900-1945Among entries made in 1926 in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book is a passage from Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife III.i (opening '[italics]Virtue[end italics], alas, is no mor...Edward Morgan Forster John VanbrughThe Provok'd WifePrint: Book
'[Having given her verses 'A Tale for the Times'] This wild irregular Measure is a sort of Favourite with me, I learnt it in Vanbrugh's Esop - a sweet Comedy though impra...Hester Lynch Thrale John VanbrughEsop; a comedyPrint: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale John VanbrughProvoked Husband, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday May 17th. [...] Read Vanburgh Plays.'Claire Clairmont John VanburghplaysPrint: Book
[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John WalkerA Dictionary of the English LanguagePrint: Book
1800-1849'There is an advertisement prefixed to this number of the "Copper Plate Magazine", in which is given a list of the plates that have already been published in it amongst w...Joseph Hunter John WalkerCopper-Plate MagazinePrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1900-1945MS note on final flyleaf: "This book gets very poor towards the end. The omissions in the Shield of Achilles, - both in the key and the index, - are nothing less than dis...George Otto Trevelyan John WalkerClavis HomericaPrint: Book
1600-1699'after I perused Iohn wass his accussinge Letter, I went to priuatt praier'Margaret Hoby John Wass[e]letterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Looked over the notes Mrs. Lefanu had written on Watkin's life of her brother - little in them - chiefly about her father's respectability etc. etc. which, though very in...Thomas Moore John WatkinsMemoirs of the Public and Private Life of the Righ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John WebsterThe Displaying of Supposed WitchcraftPrint: Book
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons John WebsterThe Duchess of MalfiPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin "The Duchesse of Malfy", which seems a good pla...Samuel Pepys John WebsterThe Duchesse of MalfyPrint: Book
1600-1699'and after Dinner down alone by water to Depford, reading "Duchess of Malfy", the play, which is pretty good - and there did some business'Samuel Pepys John WebsterThe Duchess of MalfyPrint: Book


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