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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'[Robert Dodsley] then told Dr Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him the letter [in which Johnson refused his patronage]. "I should have imagined (replied Dr Adams)...Robert Dodsley Samuel Johnson[letter from Johnson to Lord Chesterfield]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'[Robert Dodsley] then told Dr Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him the letter [in which Johnson refused his patronage]. "I should have imagined (replied Dr Adams)...Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Samuel Johnson[letter from Johnson to Lord Chesterfield]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'[Robert Owen] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he knew the Bible so well as to have been heartily sick of it in his early youth. He owned that he had never read it sinc...Harriet Martineau William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Robert] Bridges had spent eight months in Germany in the 1860s, after going down from Oxford; and Heine's lyrics, among his favourite reading, had influenced his own po...Robert Bridges Heinrich Heinelyric poetryPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'[Robinson Crusoe] was Thomas Jordan's favorite book, read through in one sitting at age eleven. The promise of "faraway places fired my imagination" and ultimately inspi...Thomas Jordan Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1500-1599'[Roger] Ascham (1515-68) [...] visited the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey (1537-54) in 1550 and describes in [italics]The Scholemaster[end italics] (1570) how he found her r...Lady Jane Grey Plato unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which she read and re-read with absorbed delight, from Hak...Rose Macaulay Richard HakluytVoiages, and Discoveries of the English NationPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which she read and re-read with absorbed delight, from Hak...Rose Macaulay Joseph Addison[probably The Spectator]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers bound as volume?
1900-1945'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which she read and re-read with absorbed delight, from Hak...Rose Macaulay n/aOxford English DictionaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Rose Macaulay] relished such island shipwreck stories as Swiss Family Robinson'Rose Macaulay Johann David WyssSwiss Family RobinsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'[S. T. Coleridge] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he (the last person whom I should have suspected) read my tales as they came out on the first of the month'.Samuel Taylor Coleridge Harriet MartineauTalesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Samuel] Rogers reported W[ordsworth]'s reaction to Brougham's harsh review of Byron's first volume: "Wordsworth was spending an evening at Charles Lamb's, when he saw t...William Wordsworth Henry Broughamreview of Byron, Hours of IdlenessPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever acknowledge it; but with regard to the author there is...James Hogg Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever acknowledge it; but with regard to the author there is...James Hogg Walter ScottBridal of Triermain, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever acknowledge it; but with regard to the author there is...George Gordon, Lord Byron Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[she thanks the Nortons for a photograph of Lincoln and] 'the delicious book on the portraits of Dante which it is a pleasure even to open, - it, - & the faces themselve...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][book on portraits of Dante]Print: Book
1800-1849'[She thanks them for the great pleasure two of their works had given her 'by their charming descriptions of natural scenery and the thoughts and feelings arising from th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Wiiliam Howitt Print: Book
1900-1945'[she thinks her own writing] was almost always imitation of what I had read. I realised the immense difference between Charlotte's work and my own. Charlotte [d'Erlanger...Antonia White Charlotte d'Erlanger[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonThe Fountaine of Selfe-Love. Or, Cynthia's RevelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles'Percy Bysshe Shelley SophoclesOedipus RexPrint: Book


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