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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
 
1850-1899[between journal entries for 10 October and 19 November 1880] 'The evening readings of Tristram Shandy created in Lady Charlotte a feeling of disgust, and she thought ...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberLaurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just received. It [italics] looks [end italics] most temptin...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Cox BennettTriumph for Salamis, the: a lyrical ballad
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter John GayTrivia, or the Art of Walking London StreetsPrint: Book
1700-1799?This evening my father has been reading out Gay?s Trivia to our great entertainment. I wished very much, my dear aunt, that you and Sophy had been sitting round the fire...R.L. Edgeworth John GayTrivia: or the art of walking the streets of Londo...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & ha...Elizabeth Barrett TroadesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am also reading Chaucer's minor poems ("World's Classics", a scrubby edition but the only one I can find) and am half way through "The House of Fame", a dream poem h...Clive Staples Lewis Geoffrey ChaucerTroilus and CreseydePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 12 Canto of Tasso & two acts of Troilus and Cressida'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTroilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTroilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Troilus & Cressid [sic] in the evening'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTroilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareTroilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the first book of Troilus & Cressida aloud in the evening.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Geoffrey ChaucerTroilus and CriseydePrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité , "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pas...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertTrois ContesPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Corneille, Trois Discours ('Sur le poeme dramatique'; 'Sur la tragedie'; 'Sur les trois unites').Edward Morgan Forster Pierre CorneilleTrois DiscoursPrint: Book
1900-1945'Barclay Hudson, an American living near by, lent him a new novel to read. It was published in Paris by the Obelisk Press, a publisher specializing mainly in pornography ...Lawrence Durrell Henry MillerTropic of CancerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Patrick MansonTropical DiseasesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rumours that Italy have declared war. Read Tropical Tales by "Dolf Wyllard". Ev Roulette.'William Thomas Dolf WyllardeTropical Tales and OthersPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emanuel SwedenborgTrue Christian ReligionPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read Gibson on lukewarmness in religion, and a sermon of his entitled "Trust in God, the best remedy against fears of all kinds", both of which I look upon a...Thomas Turner Edmund GibsonTrust in God the best remedy against fears of all ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ...Percy Wall TruthPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'and after supper to read a ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will Pen for the Quakers; but so full of nothing but nonsense that I was ashamed to read in it.'Samuel Pepys William PennTruth exalted; in a short, but sure, testimony aga...Print: Book


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