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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
 
1800-1849'Wednesday July 25th. [...] Read Sandford and Merton.'Claire Clairmont Thomas Love DayThe History of Sandford and MertonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mister Cairlil it appears has read Sandford and Merton: he may lend it to the rest if he sees good.'James Carlyle Thomas DayThe History of Sandford and MertonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's behaviour and though Mary's is very shameful yet I ca...Eugenia Wynne William RobertsonThe History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Malcolm LaingThe History of Scotland, from the Union of the Cro...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Daines Barrington's curious "Observations on the Notes of Birds"...'Thomas Green Daines BarringtonThe history of singing birdsPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have got learnt much military knowledge from a history of Edward 3rd. by old Joshua Barnes, who, Bentley...Robert Southey Joshua BarnesThe History of That Most Victorious Monarch Edward...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry FieldingThe History of the Adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the 4th. and last Book of Fielding's "Joseph Andrews". I see no necessity for the marvellous in incident, at the conclusion of this Novel...'Thomas Green Henry FieldingThe history of the adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1700-1799'8 April 1742: I have myself, upon your recommendation, been reading Joseph Andrews. The incidents are ill laid and without invention; but the characters have a great ...Thomas Gray Henry FieldingThe History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews an...Print: Book
1700-1799'[letter: 1 January 1743]: [Joseph Andrews] contains such a surprising variety of nature, wit, morality, and good sense, as is scarcely to be met with in any one compos...Elizabeth Carter Henry FieldingThe History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews an...Print: Book
1800-1849'I finished Rollin before these people came. I am quite distressed about my memory - after all the time and pains I have bestowed on this ancient history I find my mind ...Jane Baillie Welsh Charles RollinThe History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancien...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 the British Empire in IndiaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John SpottiswoodeThe History of the Church of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849"[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, when he read it through [in Lamb's copy of Daniel's P...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielThe History of the Civil WarPrint: Book
1800-1849"[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, when he read it through [in Lamb's copy of Daniel's P...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielThe History of the Civil WarPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pierre JurieuThe History of the Council of TrentPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1900-1945'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had declared him obsolete. Kathleen Woodward read Gibbon's...Kathleen Woodward Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be...Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book


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