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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[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George HerbertThe Temple and sacred poems and private ejaculatio...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading a good deal of Herbert ... "Carve or discourse; do not famine fear, Who carves is kind to two, who talks to all."'Robert Louis Stevenson George HerbertThe Temple: The Church Porch xxiiPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 31 July 1848:

'You will have seen some of the notices of "Wildfell Hall." I wish my sister felt the unfavo...		Charlotte Brontë Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell HallUnknown
1800-1849'Dickens ... recalled that as a schoolboy he used to buy the Terrific Register, "making myself unspeakably miserable, and frightening my very wits out of my head, for the...Charles Dickens The Terrific RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?They [wife and child] had been at prayers, and were reading the Testament before retiring to rest?. Samuel Bamford's wife and child [n/a]The TestamentPrint: 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...		Henry Marriage Wallis Robert BridgesThe Testament of BeautyUnknown
1800-1849'Wrote part of a sermon from Gisborne's Natural Theology'Benjamin Newton Thomas GisborneThe Testimony of Natural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have also read Gisbourne's natural theology. The design and matter of the work are excellent but it is exceedingly deficient in that plainess and persipicuity in which...Benjamin Newton Thomas GisborneThe Testimony of Natural TheologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words or so - Bruce Richmond is generous...'Virginia Woolf Lewis MelvilleThe Thackeray CountryPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 31 December 1832: 'I have had my hands & head full of a book called the Greek Theatre, composed in part of extracts, & edit...Elizabeth Barrett The Theatre of the GreeksPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Benjamin WheelerThe Theological Lectures of the Late Rev. Benjamin...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry MoreThe Theological Works of the most pious and learne...Print: Book
1700-1799'Began Burnet's "Theory of the Earth". Nothing can exceed the dexterity, or liveliness, or picturesque force, of his reasoning...'Thomas Green Thomas BurnetThe theory of the earthPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Thorstein VeblenThe Theory of the Leisure ClassPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and I to my chamber, and there all morning reading in my Lord Cooke's "Pleas of the Crowne", very fine noble reading.'Samuel Pepys Sir Edward CokeThe third part of the Institutes of the Laws of En...Print: Book
1900-1945'Here I have been reading any amount of rubbish: among them (the rubbishes) two quite admirable shockers by John (Prester) Buchan: THE POWERHOUSE and THE THIRTY NIN...Francis Brett Young John BuchanThe Thirty Nine StepsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Three Black Crows Two honest tradesmen meeting in the Strand'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxJohn ByromThe Three Black CrowsUnknown
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook May SinclairThe Three BrontesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was glad to see your hand, as it forced me to write to you. About 5 or 6 weeks ago I had the impulse to write to you about the high satisfaction I had from your last ...Arnold Bennett John SquireThe Three HillsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Three MusketeersPrint: Book


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