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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'Thursday [...] April 1st. [...] In the Evening '.Claire Clairmont unknown'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour'Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 4th. [...] '.Claire Clairmont unknown'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour'Print: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on her struggles with religious melancholy, 20 February 1837:] 'Last Sunday I took up my Bible in a gloomy frame of mind; I began to...Charlotte Bronte 'life of a certain French nobleman'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf 'life of Erasmus'Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 9th. [...] Begin the Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto.' [further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for 16, 17, 19, 20 December 1821].Claire Clairmont unknown'Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto'Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Plutarchs life of Marius'Percy Bysshe Shelley Plutarch'Life of Marius'Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.'Claire Clairmont unknown'life of Plutarch'Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that S...Virginia Woolf Fanny Kemble'Life'Print: Book
1800-1849'Life' 'Life thou art misery, or as such to me...'E.E.R. John Clare'Life' from The Village Minstrel, Volume II.Print: Book
1800-1849Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843: 'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, -- to think that for 20 years of our earliest Frie...Benjamin Robert Haydon unknown'life' of David WilkiePrint: Book
1600-1699'making the boy read to me the life of Julius Caesar and Des Cartes book of music - the latter of which I understand not, nor think he did well that writ it, though a mos...Clement Edmonds'Life' prefaced to 'The commentaries of C. Julius ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Swan's note was extremely good.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Swan'Lighthouses' Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Tennyson was my earliest love, not because he gave any deep insight into human nature, but because his lyrical simplicity appealed strongly to adolescent romanticism. Th...Vero Walter Garratt Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Lilian'Print: Book
1850-1899'My father spoke at this time [1891] warmly of the gallant spirit of Sir Edward Reed's lines on the Fleet in the St James' Gazette; and said he liked much of Wallace's Da...Alfred Tennyson Sir Edward Reed'lines on the Fleet'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In 1809 [Anne Isabella Milbanke] wrote the Lines supposed to be spoken at the Grave of Dermody. It is one of the earliest of her compositions extant [goes on to quote 11...George Gordon Lord Byron Anne Isabella Milbanke'Lines Supposed to be Spoken at the Grave of Dermo...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry: 'I informed him [Pope], that, at reading a new p...anon 'lines to the earl of Oxford'Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - write out Shelley's poem'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley'Lines written among the Eugenean Hills'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-19455 April 1918: 'Off we went to Asheham on Thursday [21 March] [...] my memory is most centred upon an afternoon reading in the garden. I happened to read Wordsworth; the...Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth'Lines Written in Early Spring, 1798'Print: Book
1800-1849'Lines written in the first leaf of a friends Album' 'Bernard Barton' 'The Warrior is[pleased?] when the war is won ....'Mary Dugdale Bernard Barton'Lines written in the first leaf of a friends AlbuUnknown
1900-1945'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid Browning ?12,500 for the first five years? rights in The Ring and the Book. It is just as w...Arnold Bennett 'Literary Notes and News'Print: Serial / periodical


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