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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'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious research, persuaded a member of the Bodleian staff to bri...Ralph Glasser John WilkesEssay on WomanManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious research, persuaded a member of the Bodleian staff to bri...Hamish John WilkesEssay on WomanPrint: Book
1700-1799?My father will allow me to manufacture an essay on the logograph, he furnishing the soiled materials and I spinning them. I am now looking over, for this purpose, Wilkin...Maria Edgeworth John WilkinsReal Character or an Essay towards universal philo...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and made my boy read to me part of Dr Wilkins's new book of the " Character", and so to bed.' (Book purchased 15 May)John WilkinsAn essay towards a real character, and a philosoph...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then made the boy to read to me out of Dr Wilkins his "Real Character", and perticularly about Noah's arke, wherein he doth give a very good account thereof, showing...John WilkinsAn essay towards a real character, and a philosoph...Print: Book
1600-1699'and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of Wilkins's "Real Character".'Elizabeth Pepys John WilkinsAn essay towards a real character, and a philosoph...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home and made my boy read to me Wilkins's "Reall Character", which doth please me mightily.'John WilkinsAn essay towards a real character, and a philosoph...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so with great content and joy home - where I made my boy to make an end of the "Reall Character", which I begun a great while ago and doth please me infinitely, and ...John WilkinsAn essay towards a real character, and a philosoph...Print: Book
1600-1699'I read Dr Wilkins of prayer, and in reading the Bible observed and wrote downe in a book notes for matter, method and expression; and although by such industrious wayes ...Isaac Archer John WilkinsA Discourse Concerning the Gift of PrayerPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 13 May 1812, [Henry Crabb] Robinson asked W[ordsworth] about [John] Wilson's recently-published volume, The Isle of Palms: "He said he had seen only a few". W[ordswo...William Wordsworth John Wilson[MS poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'On the appearance of Mr Wilson's "Isle of Palms", I was so greatly taken with many of his fanciful and visionary scenes, descriptive of bliss and woe, that it had a tend...James Hogg John WilsonIsle of Palms, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'read and fin. City of the Plague'Mary Shelley John WilsonCity of the Plague, and other poemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Returned home to tea & then amused myself for an hour with the second volume of the "Noctis Ambrosianae" which I purchased to day.'John Buckley Castieau John WilsonNoctes AmbrosianaePrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read "The City of the Plague"? If you have, did you not regret that so many passages, such pure poetry, tenderness, and sublimity are mixed with description...Eleanor Anne Porden John WilsonThe City of the PlaguePrint: Book
1800-1849'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]'s "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life"; and her op...Charlotte Bury John WilsonLights and Shadows of Scottish LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]'s "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life"; and her op...Miss [-] John WilsonLights and Shadows of Scottish LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to know how anxious I am about as I look on it to be a ...James Hogg John Wilson[ review of 'Hogg's Tales, &c.']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Wilson is publishing a poem entitled "The City of the Plague". It is in the dramatic form and a perfect anomaly in literature. Wilson is a man of great genius and fancy ...James Hogg John WilsonCity of the Plague, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I think very highly of both the books you have sent me but far most highly of Lights and Shadows in which there is a great deal of very powerful effect purity of sentime...James Hogg John WilsonLights and Shadows of Scottish LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am indeed highly delighted with the magazine as I well may for in all my life I never saw a more original miscellany. I think the letter from THE GOTH the shrewdest an...James Hogg John Wilson[various items in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical


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