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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
 
1600-1699" ... provocative omissions survive in ... [early modern manuscripts including] Lucy Hutchinson's ... translation of Lucretius' De rerum natura ..." Lucy Hutchinson Lucretius De rerum natura
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister ...Emphie Case Lucretius unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865): 'Oct. 6th. A. read me some Lucretius, and the 1st Epistle of St Peter. (At work on his new poem of "Lucretius.")'Alfred Tennyson Lucretius  Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew earlier familiarity with the great poets of all time [....(Included) Alfred Tennyson and Francis Turner PalgraveLucretius De rerum naturaPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reasoning is generally indistinct, and in some places unin...George Grote Lucretius De rerum naturaPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg Lucretius De Rerum NaturaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish i...Louisa, Lady Stuart Lucy AikinMemoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Print: Book
1800-1849'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish i...Mrs Scott Lucy AikinMemoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Print: Book
1850-1899'Then I called at Lucy Clifford?s. She showed me a short preface she has written to those stories of hers about "Worldly Women" wh. are coming out in a book. I found faul...Leslie Stephen Lucy CliffordLove letters of a worldly womanPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.

  Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved
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...		Francis E. Pollard Lucy HarrisonA Lover of Books: The Life and Literary Papers of ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lucy HutchinsonMemoirs of the Life of Colonel [John] HutchinsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'We travelled ... to Nottingham, where we walked about and viewed the Castle and town, an interesting old place, and particularly so to us at that time having just read M...Wordsworth FamilyLucy HutchinsonMemoirs of Colonel HutchinsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 29 Dec. 1806 Southey asked John May: "Have you seen the 'Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson'? Very, very rarely has any book so greatly delighted me."'Robert Southey Lucy HutchinsonMemoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governo...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Tunbridge, 1811: 'I read a great deal every morning, and indeed often of an evening [...] I am more delighted with Mrs. Hutchinson [i.e. Lu...Mary Berry Lucy HutchinsonMemoirs of Colonel HutchinsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have possessed myself of Mrs Hutchinson, which, of course, I admire, etc'.Robert Louis Stevenson Lucy HutchinsonMemoirs of the Life of Colonel HutchinsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] August 7th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson [...] Mrs. H speaking of the hatred which ignorant people bear to the wise says -- "hating that light which [...] rep...Claire Clairmont Lucy HutchinsonMemoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Writ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday August 15th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson'. Claire Clairmont Lucy HutchinsonMemoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Writ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Lucy Maud MontgomeryAnne of AvonleaPrint: Book
1700-1799'"My Sister would be very glad of your assistance in her Italian studies," W[ordsworth] wrote to [William] Mathews on 21 March 1796, " ... yesterday we began Ariosto."'William and Dorothy WordsworthLudovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, ...George Gordon Lord Byron Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoManuscript: Unknown


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