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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
 
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay AristophanesunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799I find by the newspapers this morning that Dr Wild and you are deputed by the clergy assembled at the late visitation at Beaconsfield to wait upon my lord NottinghamEdward Lincoln unknownPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Mr Laidlaw having a number of valuable books, which were all open to my perusal, I about this time began to read with considerable attention; - and no sooner did I begin...James Hogg unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Me...Elizabeth Barrett HomerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Me...Elizabeth Barrett AeschylusunknownPrint: Book
We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Me...Elizabeth Barrett William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolph...Elizabeth Zenophon [Xenophon]unknownPrint: Book, Pamphlet
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818: 'December 7th. [...] The Duchess[of York]'s life is an odd one; she seldom has a female companion, she is read to all nigh...Duchess of York unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'I had a peep at your edition of Dryden - I had not time to read the Notes which would have interested me most, namely the historical ...William Wordsworth John DrydenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Cathrine Clarkson, 19 December 1819: 'I do not know whther I ought to tell you that [Sara Hutchinson] is most eagerly and happily employed in knitti...Sara Hutchinson unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misrepresentation of the words you used upon the searchi...William Wordsworth [A Westmorland Inhabitant and Freeholder] AnonunknownPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820, on her nephew William's academic progress: '...he seems yet to have little or no satisfaction in reading alone....William Wordsworth unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Copied by Dorothy Wordsworth into Wordsworth Commonplace Book: 'From Aristotle's Synopsis of the Virtues and Vices "It is the property of fortitude not to be easily t...Dorothy Wordsworth AristotleunknownUnknown
1800-1849Copied by William Wordsworth into letter to Lady Beaumont, 12 March 1805: 'From Aristotle's Synopsis of the Virtues and Vices "It is the property of fortitude not to ...William Wordsworth AristotleunknownUnknown
1800-1849'[Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded on 24 May 1812 that "I read Wordsworth some of Blake's poems; he was pleased with some of them, and considered Blake as having the elemen...Henry Crabb Robinson William BlakeunknownUnknown
1700-1799'C[oleridge] was reading Burnet in 1795 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas BurnetunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth copied quotations from Descartes into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31, leaves 71-2, c. Feb 1801.'William Wordsworth Rene DescartesunknownUnknown
1800-1849'On 30 May 1812 W[ordsworth] observed [regarding Maria Edgeworth] that "I had read but few of her works" ... 'William Wordsworth Maria EdgeworthunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'... C[oleridge]was reading Plato during the mid-1790s ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge PlatoUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mark L.] Reed reports that W[ordsworth] copied quotations from Sennertus into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31 ... c.Feb.1801. They appear to have been copied from C[oleridge]'s...William Wordsworth Daniel SennertusunknownUnknown


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