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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
 
1600-1699[Marginalia]: 5 pp of ms notes on the original binding pages, some difficult to decipher. Appear to be recipes eg 'Take a reed ..orke[?], plurke him quirk then/ slitt him...Andrew Greirson Nicholas CulpeperPharmacopoeia LondinensisPrint: Book
1700-1799I fear to tempt this stormy sea the World, Whose every Beach is strew'd with wrecks of wretches, That daily perish in it. - Rows Ambitious StepmotherGertrude Savile Nicholas RoweThe Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy...Print: Book
1700-1799'In the even read the play of "Tamerlane", wrote by Rowe, which I think a very good play; the character of Tamerlane is such as I think should be the character of all man...Thomas Turner Nicholas RoweTamerlanePrint: Unknown
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 Nicholas RoweThe Fair Penitent: A tragedyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tor...Hester Lynch Thrale Nicholas RoweFair Penitent, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leatherL it defeated me. Words...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Nicholas SoyerThe Art of Paper Bag CookeryPrint: Book
1900-1945The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Merrygreek and E B Smith Custance Charles E. Stansfield Nicholas UdallRalph Roister DoisterPrint: Book
1900-1945The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Merrygreek and E B Smith Custance Thomas C. Elliott Nicholas UdallRalph Roister DoisterPrint: Book
1900-1945The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Merrygreek and E B Smith Custance Edith B. Smith Nicholas UdallRalph Roister DoisterPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843: 'Reading Mr Halpin of the Shakespeare society upon Oberon's command to Puck in the "midsummer night's dream,...Elizabeth Barrett Nicholas John HalpinOberon's Vision in the Midsummer-Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nicola Francesco HaymNotizia de' libri rari viella lingua italianaPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts on which detailed notes made in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Boileau, L'Art Poetique, comments on which include: 'He realises that experience is v...Edward Morgan Forster Nicolas BoileauL'Art PoetiquePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 February 1838: 'I have just been reading Racine's "Letters," and Boileau's. How much one should like both, if it were not...Mary Russell Mitford Nicolas Boileau DespreauxLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he was past threescore; beginning Avoir peu de parens...Hester Lynch Thrale Nicolas Vauquelin Des Yveteaux[a sonnet]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of "The Natural History of Iceland", from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus:-- "CH...Samuel Johnson Niels HorebowNatural history of Iceland, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Nikolai GogolThe OvercoatPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Nikolai GogolThe NosePrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Nikolai GogolThe Madman's DiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'6th October 1928 (Saturday). So I finish my day, after an abundant dinner reading ?Taras Boulba? (Gogol) - translated by A. Potogky- Stchekotikhina. Scripta Mane...Gerald Moore Nikolay Vasilevich GogolTaras BoulbaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion given of the French manner tho' written in the middle re...Samuel Richardson Ninon de LenclosLetters of Ninon de Lenclos to the Marquis of Sevi...Print: Book


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