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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'In 1782 Hester Thrale read the Spectator to her daughters, who found hilariously improper the "Idea of a Lady saying her Stomach ach'd, or that something stuck between h...Hester Thrale Joseph AddisonThe spectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this time, not moved him. Likewise, Pope, whose translati...John Masefield Joseph Addison[essays]Print: Book
1700-1799'After supper finished "The Tragedy of Cato".'Thomas Turner Joseph AddisonCato, A TragedyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of Addison's "Evidences of the Christian Religion".'Thomas Turner Joseph AddisonThe evidences of the Christian ReligionPrint: Book
1700-1799'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me with, yet I have not had time to read any farther th...Samuel Richardson Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter Joseph Addison[poems]Print: Book
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employment for those retired hours/ in which we are altoge...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Joseph Addison[Spare Time]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The hours from seven to nine were spent in reading some useful and entertaining books such as Addison's works and particularly his political papers'Prince George Joseph Addison[Political works]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What an Aladdin's cave i...Sir John Hammerton Joseph Addison[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through s...Thomas A. Jackson Joseph Addison[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Joseph AddisonSpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the [italics]Spectator[end italics] and [italics]The Ram...Elizabeth Sewell Joseph AddisonCatoPrint: Book
1800-1849'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th...Thomas Carlyle Joseph AddisonThe Free-holder, I-LVPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to ...Thomas Carlyle Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Examined, with a view to those principles, Addison's Eleven Papers in the "Spectator"; beginning at No. 409, and with the omission of the 410th, ending with the 421st. ...Thomas Green Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book
1700-1799'I returned to my friend's chambers and we read some of Mr Addison's papers in "The Spectator" with infinite relish'James Boswell Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dant...Mary Shelley Joseph AddisonSpectator, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addiso...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Joseph AddisonSpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addiso...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Joseph AddisonCatoPrint: Book
1700-1799'My mind was early formed (or half formed) by the old exploded "Spectator", and Addison's assertion that he had seen "A woman's face break out into heats as she was raili...Louisa, Lady Stuart Joseph AddisonSpectator, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical


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