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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[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 Joseph BeringtonThe History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa ...
1800-1849'The only link of which [Byron] was at this time [1811-12] conscious between him and Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke was his acquaintance with Joseph Blacket's poetry and f...George Gordon Lord Byron Joseph BlacketpoetryUnknown
1800-1849'In Seaham village lived a poet, "an unfortunate child of Genius," -- one Joseph Blacket, a cobbler's son, whom [Anne Isabella Milbanke's] parents actively befriended. Wh...Anne Isabella Milbanke Joseph BlacketpoetryUnknown
1800-1849'I read in Bourchette's "British Provinces Now" in North America of the meteorlogical state of the two Canadas in the year 1820, monthly and yearly.'William Richard Grahame Joseph BouchetteThe British Dominions in North AmericaPrint: Book
1850-1899'One number of the "Irishman" has come to my hands: it is published at No. 4 D'Olier Street, and by Fulham; and the editor is Joseph Brennan. This appears to be the true ...John Mitchel Joseph Brennan (ed)IrishmanPrint: Serial / periodical
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1850-1899		In her edition of Mary Gladstone's "Diaries and Letters", Lucy Masterman would suggest that it was under her father's influence that Mary read Butler's "Analogy".Mary Gladstone Joseph ButlerThe Analogy of ReligionPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Elizabeth Sewell's brother William, seeing her reading Butler's "Analogy", exclaimed 'You can't understand that', which made her reticent for years about the comfort and ...Elizabeth Sewell Joseph ButlerThe Analogy of ReligionPrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale Joseph ButlerAnalogy of ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that I have not for several years looked int...George Gordon, Lord Byron Joseph ButlerAnalogy of ReligionPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. F...Donald William Alers Hankey Joseph ButlerAnalogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph ButlerThe Anatomy of ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter from Whewell to Rose, dated 24/6/1818, discusses Butler's argument.William Whewell Joseph ButlerAnalogy of Natural and Revealed eligion to the ConPrint: Book
1800-1849'[By c. late 1830s] My mind had [...] become much quietened and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard mentioned with admiration,and ...Elizabeth Sewell Joseph ButlerAnalogy of ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849'My mind also had become much quieted and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard mentioned with admiration, and which I stumbled upon...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Joseph ButlerAnalogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think ...Marianne Francis Joseph ButlerAnalogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think ...Sarah Harriet Burney Joseph ButlerAnalogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Pal...James Lackington Joseph ButlerThe Analogy of ReligionPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am now reading Butler's Analogy'Elizabeth Gurney Joseph ButlerAnalogyPrint: Book
1800-1849I read yesterday in Mr. Joseph Clarke?s Sacred Literature, that Nonnus is an author whom few can read, & fewer admire. So that my opinion is nothing outrageous. I do no...Elizabeth Barrett Joseph ClarkeSacred LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G...William Holt Joseph Conrad Print: Book


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