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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
 
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi & Vittoria Corombona I have been re-reading lately...Joseph Arnould John WebsterThe Duchess of MalfiPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi & Vittoria Corombona I have been re-reading lately...Joseph Arnould John WebsterThe White DevilPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'To L[eonard]W[oolf], the philistinism of [George Macaulay] Trevelyan and his friends was epitomised by their dislike of the Elizabethan dramatist John Webster, whose Duc...The 'X' SocietyJohn WebsterThe Duchess of MalfiPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day Mrs Turner did lend me, as a rarity, a manuscript of one of Mr Wells, writ long ago, teaching the method of building a ship; which pleases me mightily. I was at...Samuel Pepys John Wells[manuscript on ship building]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t...Edward Fitzgerald John WesleyJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...anon John Wesley Print: Book
1800-1849My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...Anne Lutton John WesleySermons on Several Occasions OR Three SermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'...with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almo...Samuel Bamford John WesleyJournalsPrint: Book
1800-1849?Of him [lodger ? a Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was not tired, nor I believe ever should be. This was t...Thomas Carter John WesleyJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849?Of him [lodger ? Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was not tired, nor I believe ever should be. This was the...Thomas Carter John Wesley[works]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 para beginning 'I admit that the existing stock of sp...John Drummond Erskine John WheatleyRemarks on currency and commercePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John WhitakerThe Origin of Arianism DisclosedPrint: Book
1700-1799In his copy of John Whitaker, The History of Manchester, Francis Douce "[backed] up a sarcastic note (I: vii) about the defects of the author's style and his overreliance...Francis Douce John WhitakerHistory of ManchesterPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed...Francis Douce John WhitakerThe Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Sur...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed...Francis Douce John WhitakerThe History of ManchesterPrint: Book
'We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. "All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the ol...Samuel Johnson John WhitakerHistory of ManchesterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Not long ater this he brought from Bristol Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, 2 vols. 8vo. I having expressed a wish to see in what state of mind Mr Wesley died. After ha...James Lackington John WhiteheadThe Life of the Rev John WesleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I again took up Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, and as I saw by the title-page that it contained an account of Mr Wesley's ancestors and relations, the life of Mr Char...James and Mary Lackington John WhiteheadThe Life of the Rev John WesleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked into Whitehurst's "Theory of the Earth". His hypothesis is, That our globe was originally a confused mass of all the elements; That from gravitation and elective...Thomas Green John WhitehurstAn inquiry into the original state and formation o...Print: Book
1700-1799'In the even read several political papers called "The North Briton", which are wrote by John Wilkes Esq., member for Aylesbury in Bucks, for the writing of which he has ...Thomas Turner John WilkesThe North BritonPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical


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