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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
 
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'Sydney Smith Philip DoddridgeThe Family ExpositorPrint: Book
1700-1799Masenger - Believe ye are to blame, much to blame Lady; [...] That Feel a Weight of Sorrow through their Souls.Gertrude Savile Philip MassingerThe Very WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.'Dorothy Wordsworth Philip MassingerBashful Lover, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799' ... a short extract from [Philip] Massinger's The Picture (III.v.211-19) [was] copied by D[orothy] W[ordsworth] into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ... 'Dorothy Wordsworth Philip MassingerPicture, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 3 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt read to us one of Massinger's plays ("The Duke of Milan").'John B. S. Morritt Philip MassingerThe Duke of MilanPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 5 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt continued reading the "Duke of Milan." He reads very well, and Massinger is not easy to read.' John B. S. Morritt Philip MassingerThe Duke of MilanPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 6 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt began reading another of Massinger's plays [having finished "The Duke of Milan"], the "Fatal Dowry," fr...John B. S. Morritt Philip MassingerThe Fatal DowryPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Philip MassingerThe Plays of Philip Massinger... with notes criticPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin "The Duchesse of Malfy", which seems a good pla...Samuel Pepys Philip MassingerThe BondmanPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Massinger'Mary Shelley Philip Massinger[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'Percy Bysshe Shelley Philip Massinger[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Walk up the Mountain with S. - he reads aloud Lovers Progress'Percy Bysshe Shelley Philip MassingerLovers' Progress, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end itali...Elizabeth Barrett Philip MassingerplaysPrint: 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 Philip MassingerFatal Dowry, ThePrint: Book
1900-194529 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words between us [...] There was Gertler; Shearman & Dallas ...Philip Morrell Philip MorellLetter to John Middleton Murry regarding his revie...Unknown
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1850-1899		" ... within a few pages [of his copy of Philip Nichols's Sir Francis Drake Revived (1626)], [John Ruskin] writes, 'very obscure' (p. 27) ... 'don't understand at all' (p...John Ruskin Philip NicholsSir Francis Drake RevivedPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'The 12th and 13th I spent most of the time in playing Geck...Moll Neville Philip SidneyThe Countess of Pembroke's ArcadiaUnknown
1900-1945'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespear...Lawrence Durrell Philip Sidney[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the arcadia and Amadis'Mary Shelley Philip SidneyThe Countesse of Pembrokes ArcadiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'read the Arcadia'Mary Shelley Philip SidneyCountesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, THePrint: Book


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