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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
 
1900-1945'With Shelley I shared the sadness of human frailty. Except for some of his shorter poems, Browning was too involved for me, while I restricted my reading of Shakespeare ...Vero Walter Garratt Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R....		Roger Moore Percy Bysshe Shelley Unknown
1900-1945‘Your parcels have arrived … You have my deepest assurances that the pleasure caused by your kindness has been considerable…. The reason I dared to ask for all these ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Percy Bysshe Shelley(Poems)Print: Book
1900-1945‘Shelley is a wash out here, as a general thing. I will try Keats next. But W. W. and R. B. really are the two. Please don’t send me any more for a bit. And then s’il...Ivor Bertie Gurney Percy Bysshe Shelley(poems)Print: Book
1850-1899'His Majesty, once more disobeying the Dook's orders, had granted to some creature an Irish peerage. 'I observe' wrote Arthur (I quote from memory), that your Majesty has...Robert Louis Stevenson Percy Hetherington FitzgeraldLife of George IVPrint: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell Percy Wyndham Lewis[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899The Bronte enthusiast Sidney Biddell to Charlotte Bronte's former schoolfriend, Ellen Nussey, 15 May 1883:

'Miss Robinson's "Emily Bronte" is prettily enou...		Sidney Biddell Peter BayneTwo Great EnglishwomenPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Peter CheyneyI'll Say She DoesPrint: Book
[Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified)]: above the sentence 'Jacob Tonson is the first bookseller of any note we can treat of': 'bio. Prin & Shepherd'.Anon Peter CunninghamLives of the most Eminent Booksellers: Jacob Tonso...Manuscript: Pamphlet
1900-1945'"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question from interviewer] '- who, them? I enjoy travel books, ...Peter FlemingNews from TartaryPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus; or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1600-1699'I walked to the Temple and stayed at Starky's my bookseller's (looking over Dr Heylins new book of the life of Bishop Laud, a strange book of church history of his time)...Samuel Pepys Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then he to read to me the "Life of Archbishopp Laud", wrote by D. Heylin; which is a shrowd book, but that which I believe will do the Bishop in general no great goo...Richard Gibson Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1600-1699'and there I made my boy to read to me most of the night, to get through the "Life of the Archbishop of Caterbury".' Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read and made an end of the "Life of Archbishop Laud", which is worth reading, as informing a man plainly in the posture ...Elizabeth Pepys Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1800-1849'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading of "Robinson Crusoe", Philip Quarll, Boyle's Travels,...Christopher Thomson Peter LonguevilleThe hermit Philip QuarllPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into the office & looked over some of the pages of my las...John Buckley Castieau Peter Parley [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Peter Pindar[unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Took Pindar's "Tales of Hoy" to the library; I think it much inferior to most of his other publications which I have seen. Corinna's "Epitaph", which I have transcribed...Joseph Hunter Peter PindarTales of the Hoy, interspersed with songPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'written by Peter Pindar, at Merton, the seat of the late Lord Nelson, onhis catching a nightcap on fire, which his lordship had lent him'.Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxPeter PindarLines to Lord NelsonUnknown


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