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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'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'Mary Shelley Lodovico Antonio MuratoriDissertazioni sopra le Antichit? italiane gia comp...Print: Book
1900-1945'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century...John Buchan Logan Pearsall SmithUnforgotten YearsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undem...V.W. Garratt Longinus  Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Thursday Morng.', October 1829: 'You will think me very idle when I tell you that the Apologetis is not finished yet. But the ...Elizabeth Barrett Longinus De SublimitatePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Today I finished Longinus's treatise, & Euripedes's Rhesus. I read them [italics]regularly[end italics] thro'...Elizabeth Barrett Longinus De SublimitatePrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Longinus On the SublimePrint: Book
1850-1899'The family is all very shaky in health but our motto is now "Al Monte!" in the words of Don Lope, in the play the sister and I are just beating through with two bad dict...Robert Louis Stevenson Lope de VegaunknownPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with facility, & am now abridging the Angelica of Lope de V...Robert Southey Lope Felix de Vega CarpioLa Hermosura de Angelica Print: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels...Virginia Woolf Lord BernersFirst ChildhoodPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 22 November 1812: 'I have in charge a curious and very long MS. poem written by Lord Brooke (the friend of Sir Philip Sidney) (which I wish to submi...George Gordon, Lord Byron Lord Brooke[untitled manuscript]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, late November 1837: 'Read some of Brougham's education speech, but not all; so have no judgement to give.'Harriet Martineau Lord Broughamspeech on educationUnknown
1800-1849Sir Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker, 29 September 1833: 'Strange as it may seem, I have not read nor have I seen the Ministerial pamphlet. I saw some extracts from i...Sir Robert Peel Lord Brougham and others'The Reformed Ministry and the Reformed Parliament...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show that an artistic conscience was not Byron’s strong poin...Arnold Bennett Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1900-1945 I have a wonderful miniature edition of Byron’s 'Don Juan', illustrated, for you, with a staggering Victorian preface. I am bound to say, with all my modesty, that it t...Arnold Bennett Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 9 October 1812: 'Read the newspapers, which contained the extraordinary letter of Lord Cathcart announcing the great defeat of the French, and their ...Mary Berry Lord Cathcartaccount of Battle of BorodinoPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'We began to read with Mr Jeagle[sic] instead of the modern history of the abbe Milliot "The Modern Europe" made I think by Lord Chesterfield'.Wynne sisters and tutor Mr JaegleLord ChesterfieldModern EuropePrint: Unknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an ...Mary Shelley Lord ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Lord Eldon's speech against the appeal of the Test and Corp. Act. April 1828' is transcribed a para...Lord EldonSpeech against the appeal of the Test and Corporat...Unknown
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'One night at The Club he produced a translation of an Epitaph which Lord Elibank had written i...Samuel Johnson Lord Elibank[Epitaph on his Lady]Manuscript: Unknown
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'One night at The Club he produced a translation of an Epitaph which Lord Elibank had written i...Mr Dyer Lord Elibank[Epitaph on his Lady]Manuscript: Unknown


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