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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
 
1900-1945Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Robert Louis StevensonKidnappedPrint: Book
1900-1945Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Mark TwainTom SawyerPrint: Book
1900-1945Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Mark TwainHuckleberry FinnPrint: Book
1900-1945Be not vexed that I have only just read 'Akhnaton'. Of late months I have had so much in the way of absolutely imperative perusal that I’ve got frightfully behind. I am...Arnold Bennett Adelaide PhilpottsAkhnatonPrint: Book
1800-1849Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to the library today...He is an arrant republican in poli...Anne Lister Colonel Francis HallTravels in France in 1818Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 to 1527, end of Philoctetes of Sophlocles, & afterwar...Anne Lister SophoclesPhiloctetes
1800-1849Before breakfast from line 36-86 Sophlocles 'Electra'Anne Lister SophloclesElectraPrint: Book
1800-1849before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar + Bonney-Castle's algebra...went to Mr Knight at 3.Anne Lister [Greek Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849Before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar and Bonnycastle's algebra...Anne Lister John BonnycastleAn introduction to algebra or a treatise on algebr
1800-1849before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. EuclidAnne Lister Euclid The ElementsPrint: Book
1500-1599Before he was Bachelor of Arts he read Stapletons Fortress of the Faith, and therein finding how confidently he asserted Antiquity for the Popish Tenets, withall, brandin...James Usher StapletonFortress of the FaithPrint: Book
1800-1849Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the evening service.Anne Lister James BoswellThe journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel ...Print: Book
1800-1849Began Holcroft's Memoirs - his description of the life of a New-market boy very curious and interesting - I wish every literary man would write his own memoirsThomas Moore Thomas HolcroftMemoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft, written by hi...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accept, the best books in the world (except the Bible), H...Benjamin Jowett HegelPhilosophy of HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accept, the best books in the world (except the Bible), H...Benjamin Jowett Bunsenwork on BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859: 'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with the greatest delight, the "Maid of Astolat" twice ov...Benjamin Jowett Alfred TennysonThe Maid of AstolatPrint: Book
1850-1899Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859: 'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with the greatest delight, the "Maid of Astolat" twice ov...Benjamin Jowett Alfred TennysonThe Lily MaidPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Benjamin Jowett to Emily Tennyson, May 1868: 'I am glad that Alfred is thinking of Hildebrand. I remember a long time ago reading Bowden's Life of him, and either the ...Benjamin Jowett BowdenLife of HildebrandPrint: Book
1800-1849Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 17 May 1843: '[David Wilkie] was amiable & affectionate -- and when I read [of] his Death, (I was at Dover) I felt as if...Benjamin Robert Haydon notice of death of David Wilkie (on 1 June 1841)Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 June 1843: 'My dear Child is varying but no cough -- What a dear sweet girl! [...] We go to Harrow today to see Byron...Mary Mordwinoff Haydon George Gordon, Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book


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