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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
 
1850-1899'I am deep in a review of Symonds's last book whenever I can get time.'Oscar Wilde John Addington SymondsStudies of the Greek PoetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'on their wedding journey they [John Symonds and Catherine North] have been writing a paper on Christmas, - which looks to me [italics] very [end italics] clever, & Mr Sy...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Addington SymondsThoughts on Xmas. In Florence, 1863Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The other day I borrowed a volume of Symonds's poems from himself and returned it to him without a word of comment.'Robert Louis Stevenson John Addington SymondsunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde John Addington SymondsIntroduction to DantePrint: Book
1850-1899'The first volume of Symond's "Studies of the Greek Poets", issued in 1873, was "perpetually" in Wilde's "hands" at Trinity [Dublin]. The second volume came out in 1876, ...Oscar Wilde John Addington SymondsStudies of the Greek Poets, vols 1 and 2Print: Book
1850-1899'Symonds, talking of cultshaw, has just written a book of sonnets, which I think really should interest and amuse a few of us.'Robert Louis Stevenson John Addington SymondsAnimi FiguraManuscript: Proof copy
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John and Michael BanimTales by the O'Hara FamilyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John and Michael BanimTales by the O'Hara FamilyPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent John Atkinson Hobson[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Benn WalshOn the Present Balance of Parties in the StatePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Benn WalshPopular Opinions on Parliamentary ReformPrint: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s note to Guilt and Sorrow 81 acknowledges a borrowing 'From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-graduate, by my schoolfellow and friend Charles Faris...William John Bernard Farish Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s note to Guilt and Sorrow 81 acknowledges a borrowing 'From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-graduate, by my schoolfellow and friend Charles Faris...Charles Farish John Bernard Farish Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I found him at home in the morning. He praised Delany's "Observations on Swift ;" said that his book and Lord Orrery's might both be true, though one viewed Swift more, ...Samuel Johnson John Boyle, 5th earl of OrreryRemarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan S...Print: Book
1850-1899'Scribbled away for some hours at the Article I was writing. Altered the whole of the Introduction & then let Polly read the Paper. She approved & I felt a little excited...Polly Castieau John Buckley Castieau[article]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Commenced as soon as I had been through the Gaol to read some of my Diary for 1871'John Buckley Castieau John Buckley CastieaudiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Got on in the evening the best way that I could, amusing myself for an hour or more in looking up some old papers & reading through printed papers that I had published f...John Buckley Castieau John Buckley Castieau[papers]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into the office & looked over some of the pages of my las...John Buckley Castieau John Buckley CastieaudiaryManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'[Books read] April [1914:] F. Nightingale Vol. II
Kingsley. Vol I.
[indecipherable]
Pennell 10/6 Edit. asked for.
The land of open doors.
B...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook John Burgon BickerstethThe Land of Open Doors: Being Letters from Western...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 January 1815: 'Your packet hath been perused ...'George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam Hobhouse[packet]Manuscript: Letter


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