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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
1800-1849		'I literally saw nothing but your ear for a whole hour one night--it is perfectly unlike any ear in Nature--& as Tristram Shandy might say requires a Chapter in itself'.Lady Caroline Lamb Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Feb. 27th. [...] Read Tristram Shandy.'Claire Clairmont Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"; [borrowed from Mr Manley on visit to Stammington, July 7 1798] It has of late become the fashion to cry down Sterne as the greatest ...Joseph Hunter Lawrence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy [in 2 vol...Print: Book
1700-1799'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilated, and infinitely preferable to his tiresome "Trist...Horace Walpole Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1900-1945[following transcribed passage on 'gravity,' from Tristram Shandy I.ii] 'Insight vitiated by instinct of self defence -- probably typical of Sterne, whom I have begun ...Edward Morgan Forster Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1900-1945'Steady downpour all day long. Weather is worse than we get in England. No wonder Uncle Toby in [italics] Tristram Shandy [end italics] said "our armies swore terribly in...Albert John Martin Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have read today ... some 10 pages of "Tristram Shandy" and am wondering whether I like it. It is certainly the maddest book ever written.... It gives you the imp...Clive Staples Lewis Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1800-1849'On 29 Nov. 1805, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont: "I am reading Rosco's Leo the tenth - I have only got through the first Chapter which I find exceedingly inte...Dorothy Wordsworth William RoscoeThe Life and Pontificate of Leo the TenthPrint: Book
1800-1849' ... by 11 Jan. 1806 ... [Southey] was reading ... [Roscoe, "Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth"] a second time [having read it to review it in 1805]: "I am come to R...Robert Southey William RoscoeThe Life and Pontificate of Leo the TenthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charm...Elizabeth Inchbald RescoeThe Life and Pontificate of Leo the TenthPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am well off for books, for I have a second in hand there almost more interesting, and that is Mungo Park's travels, which I never read before.'Charles Darwin Mungo ParkThe Life and Travels of Mungo Park
1900-1945'I am just finishing the Life of B[urne-]. J[ones]. which begins to bore me slightly-not the Life, which is excellent, but the man.'Virginia Woolf Julia Mary Cartwright AdyThe Life and Works of Edward Burne-Jones, bart.Print: Book
1900-1945'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Graham, The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan (1909).'Edward Morgan Forster G. F. I. GrahamThe Life and Works of Syed Ahmed KhanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the principles of morality". The first is a sensible sort of bo...Thomas Carlyle Dugald StewartThe Life and Writings of William RobertsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 January 1843: 'I read this very morning Schindler's interesting memoirs of Beethoven'.Elizabeth Barrett Anton Felix SchindlerThe Life of BeethovenPrint: Book
1700-1799'To amuse myself during this journey I brought the life of the eccentric Benvenuto Cellini to read in the chaise etc. as we travelled.'John Marsh Benvenuto CelliniThe life of Benvenuto CelliniPrint: Book
1850-1899Harriet Martineau, in letter of 20 March 1873: 'The Life of Dickens is far too exclusively occupied with his personal relations with Forster [...] Yet it has an interest,...Harriet Martineau John ForsterThe Life of Charles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 15 January 1933: 'I am reading Parnell.'Virginia Woolf R. Barry O'BrienThe Life of Charles Stuart ParnellPrint: Book
1850-1899?And this reminds me by a further association of ideas that you would do well to look ? if you like to have your stomach turned ? at Farrar?s Life of Christ ? the gospels...Leslie Stephen Frederick FarrarThe Life of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francis WranghamThe Life of Dr. Richard BentleyPrint: Book


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