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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
 
1700-1799Copied by Frances Burney into her journal letters, from Samuel Hoole, "Aurelia" (1783): 'I stood, a favouring muse, at Burey's side, To lash unfeeling Wealth and stub...Frances Burney Samuel HooleAurelia
1800-1849Copied by William Wordsworth into letter to Lady Beaumont, 12 March 1805: 'From Aristotle's Synopsis of the Virtues and Vices "It is the property of fortitude not to ...William Wordsworth AristotleunknownUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		Copious MS notes and doodles throughout. First date "Trevelyan May 1852". One sketch is a drawing of "Alice [his sister] opening a box of soldiers. An anticipation of the...George Otto Trevelyan Thucydides De bello PelloponesiacoPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes and marginal marks, including some showing signs of irritation: v.5 p.96 "Oh do have done!"; v.4: "Oh do shut up". Several dates of reading noted includi...George Otto Trevelyan Oliver CromwellOliver Cromwell's letters and speeches; with eluci...Print: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes in hand of George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading are: Oct 1902 (on a train in Italy); Sept 16 1905; May 12 1918 (at Welcombe). He notes the dates when ...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes Demosthenes With English notes by the Rev. Arthur ...Print: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, including: "The marginal lines, and notes, are copied from Macaulay's Dindorf." Many MS dates of reading betwee...George Otto Trevelyan Xenophon Anabasis; with an English translation by Carleton ...Print: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes, incl.: "The Midas was the first oration of Demosthenes which Macaulay gave me, as a schoolboy, to read ...The marks on the outer margin are copied from ...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes in MidiamPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes, including a chronology explaining the ages of the characters: "Samuel born 1833, 29 in 1862/ Constance born 1846, 16 in 1862/ Sophia born 1847, 15 in 18...George Otto Trevelyan Arnold BennettThe old wives' talePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Copious MS notes, some correcting translation, others commenting on world affairs or noting events in Trevelyan's own life. MS dates of reading up to 1921 and list of 8 m...George Otto Trevelyan Conyers MiddletonThe life and letters of Marcus Tullius CiceroPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes; multiple dates of reading , incl. "Sept 15 1915 Wallington"; "July 3 1922 A glorious winter"; "Finished Herodotus, all of him, once again this day Sept....George Otto Trevelyan Herodotus WorksPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious notes and dates of reading, incl. Dec 1918, Sept 1921. Trevelyan transcribes the dates when Macaulay also read Demosthenes (1836, 1837). Several references to the...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes Orationes publicae; ed. by G.H. Heslop ... The Oly...Print: Book
1850-1899Curiously threatening verses open for me just now in the Bible. I can still read my old one without spectacles. D.G. "Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have r...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Corinthians)Print: Book
1800-1849Daily entry in journal, reads the Scriptures to the female convicts on board the 'Cadet' every morning and evening.R.W. Gibbs [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Robert Browning, 17 October 1847: 'It is now two or three months ago that I met, at the British Museum, with a Poem published in 1833, enti...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Robert BrowningPauline, a Fragment of a ConfessionPrint: Book
1850-1899Dates of reading given in MS as being between June 22 1897 "Jubilee Day" and July 7 1897.George Otto Trevelyan Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
David Bleich, "Gender Interests in Reading and Language": "I first 'understood' Wordsworth when I heard his poetry read by his descendent, Jonathan Wordsworth, some years...Jonathan Wordsworth William WordsworthpoetryUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley (whose jobs included winding bobbins and working as...Benjamin Brierley George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley (whose jobs included winding bobbins and working as...Benjamin Brierley Robert Burns Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		David Vincent notes how the nineteenth-century handloom weaver Wiliam Farish '"with Walkingham's arithmetic, and a slate and pencil at my side ... used to con over the pr...William Farish Walkinghamarithmetic textbookPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		David Vincent notes the former agricultural labourer (and later trades union leader and M.P.) Joseph Arch's recollection in his memoir that, after work, '"I would stick l...Joseph Arch  Print: Book


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