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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'How do you like Thalaba? There are always so many nothings to be done in London daily, that I have not read ten lines for the last ten weeks, till I came to Holland Hous...Matthew Lewis Marrie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du DeffandLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Marsilio FicinoPlatonica theologia de imortalitate animorumPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tea in Garden[.] Went out with May to lower Heath. Finished "Lay down yr. arms" Read again Stephen [indecipherable]. Supper in garden. Hot bath.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Martha von TillingLay Down Your ArmsPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who reads with me two or three times a week [...] I have be...Mary Berry Martial unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Charles E. Stansfield Martin ArmstrongHoney HarvestUnknown
1700-1799None went to Church. Read a book of Luther's.Gertrude Savile Martin Luther Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Martin LutherSamptliche SchrifftenPrint: Book
1600-1699'God... did cast into my hand, one day, a book of "Martin Luther", his comment on the "Galathians", so old that it was ready to fall piece from piece, if I did but turn i...John Bunyan Martin LutherCommentary on the GalationsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Martin LutherColloquia mensaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]read[end italics] it tomorrow -- and like metaphysics...Elizabeth Barrett Martin Luther Print: Book
1850-1899This book, originally owned and read by Lord Macaulay in June-Oct 1836, was given to his nephew who wrote on flyleaf: "Given me when at Harrow, by Macaulay to prepare for...George Otto Trevelyan Martin MadanA new and literal translation of Juvenal and Perse...Print: Book
1800-1849'In late 1808 S[ara] H[utchinson] copied the description of the gawlin from [Martin] Martin, pp.71-2, into C[oleridge]'s notebook ... 'Sara Hutchinson Martin MartinDescription of the Western Islands of Scotland, APrint: Book
1700-1799'He told me, that his father had put Martin's account of those islands into his hands when he was very young, and that he was highly pleased with it; that he was particul...Samuel Johnson Martin MartinDescription of the Western Islands of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799'He told me, that his father had put Martin's account of those islands into his hands when he was very young, and that he was highly pleased with it; that he was particul...Michael Johnson Martin MartinDescription of the Western Islands of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regiment stationed there. JOHNSON. "It is sad stuff, Sir,...Samuel Johnson Martin Martin Description of the Western Isles of Scotland Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 22 November - 2 December 1793: 'Your plan of a general satire I am ready to partake when you please. Pope Swift & Atterbury y...Robert Southey Martin Scriblerus [pseud.]Memoirs of Martin ScriblerusPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in "Polixandre".'Elizabeth Pepys Martin le Roy de GombervillePolexandrePrint: Book
1900-1945'But this is specially to thank you for the two books — the "Adding Machine" and "Men and Masses". Modern literature is very queer isn't it, but it's also extremely...Gertrude Bell Martin S. BriggsMuhammadan Architecture in Egypt and PalestinePrint: Book
1900-1945Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout.Vernon Lee Mary Arnold-ForsterStudies in DreamsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Whether it was owing to her own Desire, or the Envy of those who survived her, I know not; but of her various and beautiful Writings, except one poem of her's in Mrs [it...Laetitia Van Lewen Mary BarberPoems on Several OccasionsPrint: Book


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