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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'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey". I also read Mr. Hervey's "Theron and...Thomas Carter James HerveyTheron and AspasiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a portion of Harvey's Theron and Aspasio...'John Cole James HerveyTheron and AspasioPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read part of Hervey's "Theron and Aspasio".'Thomas Turner James HerveyTheron and Aspasio: or, a series of dialogues and ...Print: Book
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...John Evelyn John EvelynThersander [probably]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'. . . have you got Roget?s Thesaurus of English words and phrases? It is the most wonderful machine for getting at words that you know but can?t think of at the moment...Arnold Bennett Dr Peter Mark RogetThesaurusPrint: Book
1900-1945 'I send by parcel post two other jobs: One is "Roget?s Thesaurus". This is a book that I use every day, fairly roughly. Please bind it how you like, bearing this rou...Arnold Bennett Dr Peter Mark RogetThesaurusPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes including dates of reading, e.g.: "July 18 1916 Welcombe"; "March 29 1923 with Anna [i.e. Anna Philips, George Otto Trevelyan's sister-in-law]; "Read aloud to C ...George Otto Trevelyan Arnold BennettThese twainPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied itself with ranking your Latin (I now discover) far t...Thomas Carlyle John A. CarlyleThesis for medical degree "De Mentis Alientione" (...Manuscript: Degree thesis
1850-1899'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry VaughanThey are all gone into the world of lightPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read both of your novels with pleasure and admiration for the handling—particularly the one about the castle which I have lent to an appreciative American so that I ...Ford Madox Ford Anthony BertramThey Came to the CastlePrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat. Read Play You Never Can Tell by Bernard Shaw & Odd Things by Dolf Wyllarde. Ev Badminton with Bolton.' William Thomas Dolf WyllardeThingsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Caleb Williams - read to Jane.Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin William GodwinThings as the are, or, the Adventures of Caleb Wil...Print: Book
1700-1799'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part of Voltaire's "Candide", w'ch having read a great man...John Marsh William GodwinThings as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Wil...Print: Book
1700-1799'...immediately afterwards went in the diligence to Margate during which I finished the eccentric performance of "Caleb Williams".'John Marsh William GodwinThings as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Wil...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Caleb Williams to Jane'Mary Shelley William GodwinThings as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Wil...Print: Book
1800-1849'He [Shelley] reads part of "Caleb Williams" to us.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinThings as they are: or, the adventures of Caleb Wi...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Lewis’s Monk I have not seen — [material scored out] Such publications may be made the vehicles of much truth & ...Robert Southey William GodwinThings as They Are: or, The Adventures of Caleb Wi...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Caleb Williams.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Wiiliam GodwinThings as they are; or the Adventures of Caleb Wil...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinThings as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Wi...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin William GodwinThings as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Wi...Print: Book


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