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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'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ...Caroline Clive Lord MahonThe Life of Louis, Prince of Conde, Surnamed the G...Print: Book
1800-1849'A joiner's son in an early-nineteenth century Scottish village recalled [reading] his first novel, David Moir's The Life of Mansie Wauch (1828): "I literally devoured it...a Scottish joiner's son David MoirThe Life of Mansie WauchPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William HayleyThe Life of MiltonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I strongly recommend ''The Life of Henrietta Kerr'' — a nun ... The book is very entertaining as well as interesting.'Emma Darwin Henrietta Mary Emma Kerr. ed. John Morris, S.J.The Life of Mother Henrietta Kerr, Religious of th...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry FieldingThe Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the GreatPrint: Book
1700-1799Supper alone. Read life of Mr Savage.Gertrude Savile Charles BeckinghamThe Life of Mr Richard SavagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fielding's "Life of Jonathan Wild"; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...'Thomas Green Henry FieldingThe life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the GreatPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read, since being here, Evelyn's Life of Mrs Godolphin; it is very pretty, but she is too virtuous and too nun-like...'Charles Darwin John EvelynThe Life of Mrs GodolphinPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913: 'After dinner Virginia reads the Life of Mrs Humphry Ward & I the Poor Law Mino...Virginia Woolf The Life of Mrs Humphry WardPrint: Book
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Octavia HillThe Life of Octavia Hill as Told in Her LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf R. B. O'BrienThe Life of ParnellPrint: Book
1800-1849Transcription of part of text: 'From Professor Gellerts Moral Lessons / 'Faith in God, the sublime thought...'B.A.T. Herbert Professor GellertThe Life of Professor Gellert; with a course of .....Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved with one correction, in the absence of the s...

Mary Pollard Percy CorderThe Life of Robert Spence WatsonPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf Lady Gwendolyn CecilThe Life of Robert, Marquis of SalisburyPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman W.G. CollingwoodThe Life of RuskinPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf R. B. O'BrienThe Life of RussellPrint: Book
1800-1849Commenced Boswell's Life of Johnson and was much pleased with it.John Horrocks Ainsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dined at five - went on with Boswell having discontinued it, since Saturday January 23rd.John Horrocks Ainsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899?Boswell showed his genius in setting forth Johnson?s weaknesses as well as his strength. But if Boswell had been Johnson?s brother? I cannot be simply eulogistic if the ...Leslie Stephen James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 30 August 1800: 'I read a little of Boswell's Life of Johnson.'Dorothy Wordsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book


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