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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
 
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler Pietro Metastasioopera (16 Tom)Print: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler GilpinNorthern TourPrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler Thomas GrayWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799" Then my beloved read La Morte d'Abel"Sarah Ponsonby La Morte D'AbelPrint: Book
1700-1799Read the 2d volume of Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature & Art'. It is a pretty little thing, not in the same way as the 'Italian'.Joseph Hunter Elizabeth InchbaldNature and ArtPrint: Book
1700-1799I finished Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature and Art', the second volume is not so pleasing as the first, but yet it has a very pleasing conclusion, showing the destruction of vice ...Joseph Hunter Elizabeth InchbaldNature and ArtPrint: 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 Grosvenor Charles BedfordOdeManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper w...Eugenia Wynne [n/a][Gazettes / newspapers from paris]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'Some of the fine madams pointed out to him [Mr Sym] a few inadvertencies [in Hogg's "The Spy"], or, more properly, absurdities, which had occurred in the papers; but he ...Robert Sym James HoggThe SpyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper w...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Moliere [pseud.]Les Precieuses RidiculesPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'The bloody proceeding [a reference to a disturbance at Westminster School] I have seen no account of in the papers ...Robert Southey Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the utmost utility & what no university can teach — Homer...Robert Southey HomerIliadPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the utmost utility & what no university can teach — Homer...Robert Southey HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I told him that from reading Gay's writings, I had taken an affection to his Grace's family from my earliest years.'James Boswell John Gay[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'And Holcroft, reading Adelaide, which must have been one of her earliest plays, wrote on the back of the manuscript: at seventeen, when scenes like this occurred, you pr...Thomas Holcroft Amelia OpieAdelaideManuscript: Play script
1700-1799?My father will allow me to manufacture an essay on the logograph, he furnishing the soiled materials and I spinning them. I am now looking over, for this purpose, Wilkin...Maria Edgeworth John WilkinsReal Character or an Essay towards universal philo...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. as I am ignorant of the tune I beg you will practise "Lillabullero" to teach me. You see ...Robert Southey WatsonChemical EssayPrint: Book
1700-1799?I will tell you what is going on, that you may see whether you like your daily bill of fare. ? There is a balloon hanging up, and another going to be put on the stocks; ...Maria Edgeworth William NicholsonThe First Principles of ChemistryPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. As I am ignorant of the tune I beg you will practise "Lillabullero" to teach me. You see ...Robert Southey Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: 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 SophiaEdward Young Print: Book


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