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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
 
1700-1799[Marginalia]: pp.31-61 are heavily annotated - the only clue to the identity of the annotator is in the ink - it is the colour used by Will. Baillie (see section 1.5). T...Will Baillie Leonardo Da VinciA Treatise of PaintingPrint: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaJoseph AddisonworksPrint: Book
1700-1799"Reading - finished Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature which had been my Night lecture."Lady Eleanor Butler Melanges d'Histoire et de LitteraturePrint: Book
1700-1799" Read Betula (sic) Liberata to my beloved. Explained all the difficult passages."Lady Eleanor Butler MetastasioBetulia LiberataPrint: Book
1700-1799Finished the second volume of Mrs Radcliffe's 'Italian'. She is the best writer in her way of anybody I [have?] heard of. There is one scene in this volume which cannot b...Joseph Hunter Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book
1700-1799We got the last volume of the Italian, I think it does not equal the former productionJoseph Hunter Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book
1700-1799Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particularly taken with the battle near the Lake Regillus i...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownRoman HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Grammar ...'George Gordon Lord Byron RuddimanLatin GrammarPrint: Book
1700-1799Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those books -- and had read them through and through befo...George Gordon Lord Byron Books of Old TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone through it, & that so long ago.'Cassandra Austen Jane AustenFirst ImpressionsManuscript: Book in Manuscript
1700-1799John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first book of the Aeneid were all of Virgil that I transl...John Wilson Croker Alexander Popetranslations from HomerPrint: Book
1700-1799John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first book of the Aeneid were all of Virgil that I transl...John Wilson Croker Virgil Eclogues IPrint: Book
1700-1799John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first book of the Aeneid were all of Virgil that I transl...John Wilson Croker Virgil Aeneid IPrint: Book
1700-1799Wee are much obliged to you for sending in Pamela, but I must tell you how it entertained us, Miss Jenny and I cryed most heartily at the Reading of it. I believ it is t...Anne Cust Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Macintosh September 9 1797 'The cheerfulness of our work-people, and the soft serenity of the air, during these tepid gleams that Thomson speaks of so feeli...Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, c. 26 September 1792: 'I have been attempting Euclid but without a master I could make no progress — perhaps disgust at the dry st...Robert Southey EuclidElements Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. September 1792: 'I ought to be studying Euclid — (the Devil take that wretch & make draw triangles below) but Rousseau be...Robert Southey RousseauunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you...Robert Southey Thomas Gray GrayOde on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a ...Print: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you...Robert Southey Thomas Gray GrayOde on the SpringPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you...Robert Southey Thomas ParnellA Fairy Tale, in the Ancient English Style Print: Unknown


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