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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‘I am afraid there is little hope at present of another portion of the Recluse, but it must delight every lover of mankind to see how the influence of Wordsworth’s poet...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthThe ReclusePrint: Book, Hartley is also referring to a 'reading' of W. Wordsworth's poetry outside any form of text
1900-1945'I will confess at once that I have read the book ["The Reconnaissance"] once only, and that of course is not enough;[...].The subject in itself is certainly a very diffi...Joseph Conrad Theodore James Gordon GardinerThe ReconnaissancePrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Record'; [text] 'He sleeps, his head upon his sword/ His soldier's cloak a shroud/ His churchyard is the open fie...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Letitia Elizabeth LandonThe recordPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?3 March 1843: 'Mr Kenyon calls Christopher North a "glorious brute" -- [italics]I[end italics] call him a "brute- angel" [...Elizabeth Barrett John Wilson (as Christopher North)The Recreations of Christopher North (vol. 3)Print: Book
1900-1945'That same night, in a perfect, clear, still moonlight, I lay in a tent, obsessed by insomnia... And I will interpolate that, for myself, I had been reading, actually, ...Ford Madox Ford Stephen CraneThe Red badge of couragePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the "Badge" It won't hurt you --or only very little. Crane-ibn-Crane el Yankee is all right. The man sees the outside of many things and the inside of some.'Joseph Conrad Stephen CraneThe Red Badge of CouragePrint: Book
1900-1945'Mowed lawn all morning with Dad. Then boked down town. Then biked round and round the lawn! ... Supper and after short stroll came back and finished "The Red Planet", pe...Guy Mainwaring Knocker Norman CrossThe Red Planet and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Edith Wharton, 4 December 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'Your beautiful Book ["The Reef: A Novel"] has been my portion these several days [...] it ...Henry James Edith WhartonThe Reef: A NovelPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'The Refinement'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John NorrisThe RefinementPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin James Leigh Hunt (ed.)The ReflectorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The two most interesting books I have read for some time are the Edgeworth Memoir (Lady Strangford's copy) and Ld Grey's 2 vols: of Correspondce between his father and W...Harriet Martineau Henry, Earl GreyThe reform act, 1832; the correspondence of the la...Print: Book
1800-1849'The Regatta' [transcribes poem]'Ho! Hearty steeple chasers...' 'Blackwood's Mag 1830'E.E.R. The RegattaPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Read 4 acts of 'The Rehearsall'. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile George (Duke of Buckingham) VilliersThe RehearsalPrint: Book
1700-1799Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile George (Duke of Buckingham) VilliersThe RehearsalPrint: Book
1850-1899'I somehow could not think the gulph so impassable and read him some notes on the Duke of Argyll.'Robert Louis Stevenson George Campbell, 8th Duke of ArgyllThe Reign of LawPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of...Alfred Tennyson Duke of ArgyllThe Reign of LawPrint: Book
1900-1945'No parcel aft. French. Supposed to play Rugger ... Ev bridge. Won. Read Reins of Chance by C Ranger Gull.'William Thomas Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger GullThe Reins of ChancePrint: Book
1800-1849'a vague subject, but treated in the refined & elevated spirit peculiar to him'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth George Stillman HillardThe Relation of the Poet to His AgePrint: Book
1700-1799[Transcript in Journal of Chapter One, in shorthand]John Byrom William WollastonThe Religion of Nature DelineatedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, "The Religion of Women" and "Women in Political Evolution", which I still t...Hannah Mitchell Joseph MacabeThe Religion of WomenPrint: Book


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