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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
 
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, Thursday 23 May 1799: 'I began Homer's Iliad on Wednesday last, to my no small delight, and felt no particular difficulty in the comprehensio...Mary Berry Homer The IliadPrint: Book
1800-1849'On the penult of the year 1819 I reached the last line of the "Iliad". To speak of the merits of the Maeonian Bard from one perusal only may be deemed presumption - ye...Robert Mitchell HomerThe IliadPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Mins...Elizabeth Barrett Homer The IliadPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the summer of 1861 we travelled in Auvergne and the Pyrenees [...] At Mont Dore, while my father was reading some of the Iliad out aloud to us, little boys came and s...Alfred Tennyson Homer The IliadPrint: Book
1800-1849'...what do you think Mitford's 'Greece' has made me begin, the 'Iliad' by Cowper which we were talking of.' Charles Darwin Homer The IliadPrint: Book
1900-1945'In Greek, I have started to read Homer's Iliad, of which, of course, you must have heard. Although you don't know Greek & don't care for poetry, I cannot resist the te...Clive Staples Lewis HomerThe IliadPrint: Book
1850-1899After listing some canonical writers discussed by Pound and whom Ford had never read he then goes on to write: 'On the other hand I possess a certain patience and, if I...Ford Madox Ford HomerThe IliadPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a ...Thomas Carlyle HomerThe Iliad / OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a ...Thomas Carlyle Alexander PopeThe Iliad / Odyssey of HomerPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: '1/2 past 4. I have been reading Cowpers Homer & much satisfaction has the perusal afforded me. a quotation...Robert Southey William CowperThe Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into En...Print: 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 Alexander PopeThe Iliad of Homer
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festive light/ For the Royal city rejoiced by night/ ... ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansThe illuminated cityPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a...Derek Davies [anon]The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Thomas a KempisThe Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
1700-1799'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his gran...William Gifford Thomas a KempisThe Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am now off to bed after reading a chapter of S. Thomas ? Kempis. I think half-an-hour's warping of the inner man daily is greatly conducive to holiness.'Oscar Wilde Thomas ? KempisThe Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with Swinburne (a copy of)"; in another, he mentioned "Th...Oscar Wilde Thomas a KempisThe Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
1700-1799'I spent the evening reading with Mama "the Imitation of Jesus Christ" until supper' Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Thomas a KempisThe Imitation of Jesus ChristPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'The "Impenitent Thief" has been read more than once. I've read it several times alone and I've read it aloud to my wife. Every word has found a home.' Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamThe Impenitent ThiefPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's extensive 1819-20 annotations to The Imperial Family Bible, lent to her by its owner, Mrs Susanna Rudd. Hester Lynch Piozzi The Imperial Family BiblePrint: Book


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