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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
 
1900-1945'Rained all day without stopping. Read Butler's Crusade. May bought winter dress at Selfridge's £1.0.5. payed her with cheque..'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Josephine Elizabeth ButlerPersonal Reminiscences of a Great CrusadePrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Dense fog. Could hardly see ... May had to go to bed till night. I read Memoir of J. E. Butler.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Josephine Elizabeth ButlerPersonal Reminiscences of a Great CrusadePrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945‘Our work and routine is still the same as ever. We are like the fielder who is put at long leg when a good batsman is at the wicket: not because the batsman will eve...Charles Hamilton Sorley Josephine Mary WardHorace BlakePrint: Book
1600-1699"The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote: "'My Coz. Maria read Ovid's Metamorphosis to me. "'The 14...Wat Conniston Josephus  Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have got learnt much military knowledge from a history of Edward 3rd. by old Joshua Barnes, who, Bentley...Robert Southey Joshua BarnesThe History of That Most Victorious Monarch Edward...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon'Mary Shelley Joshua PickersgillThree Brothers, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the three brothers'Mary Shelley Joshua PickersgillThree Brothers, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Writing an addendum entitled "The Interruptions" to the copious journal which she kept in the early 1830s, Emily Shore gave a wry picture of the difficulties attendant o...Emily Shore and motherJoshua ReynoldsDiscourses on ArtPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Discourses", with an eye to a peculiar and distinguishing doctrine which runs through the whole, and is manifestly a particular favourite ...Thomas Green Joshua ReynoldsSeven DiscoursesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Joshua ReynoldsLecturesPrint: Book
'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Academy", by Sir Joshua Reynolds, whom he always consid...James Boswell Joshua ReynoldsDiscourses Delivered at the Royal AcademyPrint: Book
'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Academy", by Sir Joshua Reynolds, whom he always consid...Samuel Johnson Joshua ReynoldsDiscourses Delivered at the Royal AcademyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in his "Discourses to the Royal Academy". He observed on...Samuel Johnson Joshua ReynoldsSeven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy Print: Book
1700-1799'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in his "Discourses to the Royal Academy". He observed on...Samuel Johnson Joshua ReynoldsSeven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy Print: Book
1800-1849Entered by Coleridge in Wordsworth Commonplace Book: 'O holy peace by thee are only found The passing joys that every where abound Sylvester'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joshua SylvesterO Holy PeaceManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899The Rev. Charles Cockin to Alfred Tennyson, November 1868: 'In reading an old translation of Du Bartas I was struck with the following verse from the "Woodman's Beare,...Charles Cockin Joshua Sylvester'The Woodman's Beare'Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of an extract from Joshua Sylvester's translation of the second day from Guillaume Du Bartas's The Second Week (1598), ll. 663...Elizabeth Lyttelton Joshua SylvesterTranslation of the second day from Guillaume Du Ba...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the poems of Conder over a second time [...] I am much pleasd with many more which I shall read anon'John Clare Josiah ConderThe Star in the EastPrint: Book
1800-1849'It must have been during this year [1823] that I began to read a work which gave me much and unalloyed pleasure: this was "The Modern Traveller", edited by Mr. Conder. I...Thomas Carter Josiah ConderThe Modern Traveller, a Description of the Various...Print: Book
1800-1849'To... ...' 'There are who strangely love to roam/And find in wildest haunts their home/...' ['Home' ll. 13-22]Margaret Maingay [probably] Josiah ConderHomePrint: UnknownUnknown


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