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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[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingPrint: Book
1700-1799'I spent the evening and slept at the Old Tree, a very poor inn in which I was forced to sleep in a double bedded room with a stranger. For my amusement during this journ...John Marsh Alain-Rene Le SageThe history of Vanillo Gonzales, surnamed the Merr...Print: Book
1800-1849'Robert Colyer, who rose to become a celebrated Unitarian minister, deliberately chose to dwell upon the moment when, as a child labourer in a Fewston linen factory, he b...Robert Collyer The History of Whittington and his CatPrint: Book
1700-1799"As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend, 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Bryan Edwards's account of the effects of the Oby Witchcraft o...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bryan EdwardsThe History, Civil and Commercial, of the British ...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads aloud the view of the French Revolution for a short t...Percy Bysshe Shelley Bryan EdwardsThe history, civil and commercial, of the British ...Print: Book
1800-1849'read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'.Mary Godwin Bryan EdwardsThe history, civil and commercial, of the British ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Bryan Edwards's account of the West Indies'.Mary Godwin Bryan EdwardsThe history, civil and commercial, of the British ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Holy BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Holy BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Holy BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Holy BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Holy BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: 3 pages of ms notes (pencil) on binding pages in form of references giving Book, chapter /verse and a short note on content eg 'Exodus ... 14 ... bees'. The... The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and t...Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, January 1869: 'A. read "The Holy Grail" to the Bradleys, explaining the realism and symbolism, and how the natural, if people cared, cou...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Holy GrailManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'So I will only tell you that the 1st instalment of the novel ["The Holy Mountain"] is brilliantly effective.'Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsThe Holy MountainPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Send me Lane's exact address and I will forward him the MS of "[The Holy] Mountain". I've just finished re-reading the whole. My impression--which you know of--is genera...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsThe Holy MountainManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'I am [...] reading and dipping into and re-dipping into your blue volume ["The Holy Mountain"]. Fact is I've just banged it down this minute--and I shan't look at it now...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsThe Holy MountainPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas FullerThe Holy State and Profane StatePrint: Book
1850-1899"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds...Emmeline Pankhurst The Holy WarPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen,...Edwin Whitlock [anon]The Holy WarPrint: Book


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