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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
 
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 Decmber 1813: 'Saw Lord Glenbervie and his Prospectus, at Murray's, of a new Treatise on Timber. Now here is a man mo...George Gordon Lord Byron Lord GlenbervieProspectus for Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie...Print: Advertisement
1850-1899'Lord Grey's despatches have arrived...[prisoners gather to hear proclamation read aloud] when Captain Bance unfolded his papers the burliest burglar held his breath for ...Captain Bance Lord Grey[Dispatch from the Government respecting fate of c...Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert ...Virginia Woolf Lord HerbertLetters and Diaries of Henry, Tenth Earl of Pembro...Print: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 22 January 1849: 'I have recently read Lord Hervey's Memoirs, on the recommendation of a friend. If you have not read them I recommend t...George Grote Lord HerveyMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817: 'Will you remember me to Ld. and Lady Holland -- I have to thank the former for a book which I have not yet received -- but expect t...George Gordon Lord Byron Lord HollandSome Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Feli...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto in Lord Holland's Lope de Vega.'George Gordon Lord Byron Lord HollandLope de VegaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Janet Schaw and her cousin, sailing from Scotland to the Caribbean, try to keep calm in a terrifying storm by reading Lord Kames ('like philosophers not Christians').'Janet Schaw Lord Kames Print: Book
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocquev...Virginia Woolf Lord KilbrackenReminiscencesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Amongst all the Letters I have yet seen published, I never saw any so truly elegant, learned, and polite, as those with which your Lordship has condescended to honour yo...Laetitia Pilkington Lord Kingsborough[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 13 Feb 1818: 'I dined at the Wakefields yesterday. Mr John W. senior broke out on the dependent and enslaved State of the County et...William Wordsworth Lord Lonsdale Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Lord LyttonAntony: A Record of YouthPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Embassy to China. finish it in the evening.'Mary Godwin Lord MacartneyJournal of an Embassy to ChinaPrint: Book
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
1700-1799'I went through that extraordinary work of Lord Monboddo on the "Origin of Language". I was entertained and instructed from the singularity of the system, the many errone...Anna Larpent Lord MonboddoOf the origin and progress of languagePrint: Book
1700-1799J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 17 November 1751: 'I have been reading lately, with great satisfaction, the Letters of Lord Orrery on D...J. Duncombe Lord OrreryLetters on SwiftPrint: Book
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Epitaph on Viscountess Palmerston written by her Husband” Romsey Church.'Catherine Austen Lord PalmerstonEpitaph on Vicountess PalmerstonPrint: tombstone
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'September 30th. At Badgemore [family's country residence] 'Rose at 7. Read some ...George Grote Lord Shaftesbury'letter on Enthusiasm'Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'September 30th. At Badgemore [family's country residence] 'Rose at 7. Read some ...George Grote Lord Shaftesbury'letter on Enthusiasm'Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment f...John Galt Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of)[letter on the punishment for adultery in Turkey]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment...Henry Richard Fox Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of)[letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey]Manuscript: Letter


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