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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' ... [Gladstone] was disappointed by ... "The History of David Grieve" (1892), though he read it all ...'William Ewart Gladstone Mrs Humphry WardThe History of David GrievePrint: Book
1850-1899'One of them asked me if I was fond of reading and told me that she herself wrote books and was staying in the neighbourhood hoping to include the dale in her next book. ...Hannah Mitchell Mary Humphrey WardThe History of David GrievePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Paul de Rapin-ThoyrasThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney David HumeThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Hume's "History of England", and many o...James Watson David HumeThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'In reading "The History of England" I find that England first took that name under Egbert the 1st monarch of England after the Saxon Heptarchy, anno 801.'Thomas Turner anonThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Found in "The History of England" that England was first divided into counties, parishes, etc. in King Alfred's reign, about the year 890...'Thomas Turner anonThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read some of "The History of England".'Thomas Turner The History of EnglandPrint: 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 almos...Samuel Bamford [unknown]The History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'search Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving, I think, to be more talked of'William Windham Oliver GoldsmithThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'All the reading up is Macaulay, p.530 to 535 and then p. 616 to 630'. [The context of the reference suggests the text is Macaulay's History of England. RLS has been refe...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Babington MacaulayThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill David HumeThe History of England (presumably)Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s eight chaotic volumes are before me. To say nothing o...Thomas Carlyle David HumeThe History of England during the reigns of James ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man...Thomas Carlyle David HumeThe History of England During the Reigns of James ...Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ...Harriet MartineauThe history of England during the thirty years' pe...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[D.R. Davies was inspired by his school teacher] 'to read Macaulay's History of England before his twelfth birthday'D.R. Davies Thomas Babington MacaulayThe History of England from the Accession of James...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to the Countess of Morley, 24 December 1848: 'Talking of Macaulay, I hope you have got his book, as the [italics]very[end italics] most entertaining reading I ...Mary Berry Thomas Babington MacaulayThe History of England from the Accession of James...Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading Macauleys "history of England" for the 2nd time' Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington MacaulayThe history of England from the accession of James...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Macauleys "history of England", and have got thro 5 volumes, it is very interesting' Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington MacaulayThe history of England from the accession of James...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Macauleys "history of England", it is so interesting that it keeps me up at night, later than I ought to remain, it is a book, that when once a person has c...Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington MacaulayThe history of England from the accession of James...Print: Book


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