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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
 
1700-1799'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses." Sir Joshua. "I was glad to hear Charles Fox say, it ...Charles Fox Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Goldsmiths description of the Appennines is exact - "Woods over Woods in [italics] gay theatric pride [end italics]". Never was epithet more appropriate to the whole sce...Anne Romilly Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, The; or, A Prospect of Society Print: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson BoyleTravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".'George Eliot [pseud] John Mandeville (pseud.)TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, Sunday 14 October 1810, on stay in Greathead household at Guy's Cliff: '[After church attendance] The blind Miss Williams played much of Handel's mus...Mr Greathead ClarkeTravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on inspirations for her story 'Feats on the Fjord': 'Mr Laing's book on Norway fell in my way, and set my imagination floating on the fjords [...] I pro...Harriet Martineau InglisTravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Laura's greatest find was a battered old copy of Belzoni's "Travels" propping open somebody's pantry window. When she asked for the loan of it, it was generously given t...Flora Thompson Giovanni Battista BelzoniTravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. I've never read "Pendennis" and I'm simply adoring ...Negley FarsonTravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy ...Mary Shelley ClarkeTravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'During some months of 1837 my father was deeply immersed in Pringle's Travels, and Lyell's Geology'.Alfred Tennyson PringleTravelsPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton MandeliloTravels (unidentified)Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton TaverniereTravels (unidentified)Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton TerreTravels (unidentified)Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton SandsTravels (unidentified)Print: Book
1900-1945'But instead of learning to sail, I read Edward Whymper's "Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator". The author is better known for his "Scrambles among the Alps", b...Eric Shipton Edward WhymperTravels among the Great Andes of the EquatorPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You may as well say, which is a truth, that I do read bi[o]graphy and memoirs. History has a fascination for me. Naval, military, political'. [The following was delete...Joseph Conrad Edward WhymperTravels Amongst the Great Andes of the EquatorPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramactic [sic] Criticism'.Claire Clairmont Friedrich Maximilian von KlingerTravels Before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental...Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Feb. 5th. [...] Read Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Read Travels before the Flood which I like much [makes detailed notes on this text].'Claire Clairmont Friedrich Maximilian von KlingerTravels before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental...Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday Feb. 7th. [...] Read and finish Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal the feeling of this letter I admire exceedingly -- it is truly cosmopolitan -- Finish the travel...Claire Clairmont Friedrich Maximilian von KlingerTravels before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'Mary Godwin Thomas HolcroftTravels from Hamburg through Westphalia, Holland a...Print: Book


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