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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
 
1850-1899'On reading the subjoined chapters on the Turkish Bath, in Mr Urquhart's "Pillars of Hercules", I was electrified; and resolved, if possible, to add that institution to...Dr Richard Barter David UrquhartThe Pillars of Hercules, or, a narrative of travelPrint: Book
1800-1849I have been engaged this day posting my shop books etc. during my spare time reading a novel- The Pirate [Scott]Adam Mackie Walter ScottThe PiratePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged by your kindness in sending me The Pirate. You know how much I admire the genius of the author, but even that has its limits and is exhaustible. I am a...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe PiratePrint: Book
1850-1899'Don't read noble old Fred's Pirate anyhow; it is written in sand with a salt spoon: arid, feeble, vain, tottering production.'Robert Louis Stevenson Frederick MarryatThe Pirate Print: Book
1900-1945'My literature has been “The Pit”, Frank Norris’s wheat hoarding story, and the two books of riff-raff, very tangy, cynical and amusing, by O. Henry. One story, "Roads of...Edmund Blunden Frank NorrisThe PitPrint: Book
1900-1945’A lot of shelling in the morning: seemed to be around at the Rly Station. I have suddenly gone mad over “The Pit” by Frank Norris.’ Edmund Blunden Frank NorrisThe PitPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from the fifth edition of Thomas Sprat's The Plague of Athens (1688) [p.34] [...] his allegory on t...Edward Pordage Thomas SpratThe Plague of AthensPrint: Book
1900-1945'I send you my affectionate thanks for the book ["The Plattner Story and Others"] and for the terms of the inscription on the fly-leaf; for the more I know of you--in our...Joseph Conrad H.G. Wells The Plattner Story and OthersPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "My chronic eastward hankerings and hungerings have been very much quickened of late by the perusal of a little book by our fri...Henry James Leslie StephenThe Playgrounds of EuropePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Philip MassingerThe Plays of Philip Massinger... with notes criticPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 February, 1802: 'In the morning a Box of clothes with Books came from London. I sate by his [William Wordsworth's] bedsid...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one end of tablecloth and we were very cosy and comfort...Anne Lister Thomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: Book
1800-1849'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfa...Thomas Carter Thomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: Book
1800-1849'A Fragment' 'And say when summoned from the world and thee/...' ['The Pleasures of Hope', part one, ll. 239-248. Some changes in punctuation]Carey/Maingay groupThomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Read Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope". Parts of this Poem are animated and fine...'Thomas Green Thomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: Book
1800-1849'"When the last breath, ere nature sink to rest Thy meek submission to they God express'd/..."'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxSamuel RogersThe Pleasures of Memory Part IIUnknown
1800-1849'"When the last breath, ere nature sink to rest, Thy meek submission to thy God express'd/..."'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxSamuel RogersThe Pleasures of Memory Part IIUnknown
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1800-1849		Letter to Mrs Macintosh November 23 1800 'Nay, I find the relapse to calm sorrow, a relief from constant perturbation, ?Tha solas an thireadh le sith, Ach claoidhidh fad...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James MacphersonThe poems of OssianPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge James MacPhersonThe Poems of Ossian, the Son of FingalPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William DunbarThe Poems of William DunbarPrint: Book


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