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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
 
1700-1799'He [Edward Austen] made an important purchase Yesterday; no less than a pair of Coach Horses; his friend Mr Evelyn found them out & recommended them, & if the judgement ...Jane Austen Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I remember once to have seen a little collection of letters and poetical scraps of Swift's, which passed between him and Mrs Van Homrigh, this same Vanessa, which the bo...Samuel Richardson Jonathan Swift[letters and poetical scraps]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Harrington told Seward, who told me; that Swift had taken his Tale of a Tub from Pallavicini upon Divorces, I always thought it was borrowed from "les trois Annea...Hester Lynch Thrale Jonathan SwiftTale of a Tub, APrint: Book
1800-1849?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the ...William Edwin Adams Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting me pardon for all my offenses if it is not by himsel...Lady Caroline Lamb Jonathan SwiftunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'Flora Thompson Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in library; for first time, in Swift's "Ode to Athenian Society". Not in good state to judge, but thought it bit heavy, though not worse perhaps than odes generally...William Windham Jonathan Swift['Ode to Athenian Society']Print: Unknown
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson ...Edwin Muir Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday, 9th March, Club ? ?Currency and Unemployment? - Arthur Robinson. The finest lecture of the year. Mr. Robinson gave an introductory explanation of money and...Gerald Moore Jonathan SwiftJournal to StellaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 17th March, Last rehearsal. Things are in trim now I think. I prepared the programme. I think it O. K. though the humour is hardly my line ? ?De Heiny ...Gerald Moore Jonathan SwiftJournal to StellaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished, afterwards, "Gulliver's Travels". Could this severe satire....'Thomas Green Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Swift's "Four last Years of Queen Anne"; a clear, connected detail of facts, exhibited with exquisite art...'Thomas Green Jonathan SwiftThe history of the four last years of the QueenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Jonathan SwiftTale of a Tub, Written for the Universal Improveme...
1700-1799Letter to Mrs F--R , April 7 1797 'They are very happy too in their eldest son, who promises to be all that they prayed for; but he is rather delicate in his constitution...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jonathan SwiftunknownPrint: Book
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1800-1849		Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Think of the dignity and interest attached to a character, that can relish the pure pleasures of taste and beneficence, at a period of life...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Gullivers Travels aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Jonathan SwiftTravels into several Remote Nations of the World. ...Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Jonathan SwiftTravels into several Remote Nations of the World. ...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]'Percy Bysshe Shelley Jonathan SwiftTravels into several Remote Nations of the World. ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Somebody sent Ben an unexpurgated edition of Gulliver for Xmas. He had read most of it before I discovered. It was disguised as a child's book.'Benedict Nicolson Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book


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