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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
1800-1849		'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas GrayunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...Lady Caroline Lamb Oliver GoldsmithunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...Lady Caroline Lamb Toquato TassounknownPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting me pardon for all my offenses if it is not by himsel...Lady Caroline Lamb Jonathan SwiftunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have been reading for the first time 2 of yr Tales & am delighted with them. They not only amuse & interest & affect extremely but they amend--and it must be a deligh...Lady Caroline Lamb Amelia OpieunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'... he devotes a whole serious and excellent essay to an exploration of the fame of Silas Hocking, who wrote novels calculated to please "the taste of the Methodist mill...Arnold Bennett Silas HockingunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'With the Marriotts, Bennett found himself among friends. This was a cultured household, with musical evenings, improvised theatricals and constant talk of art. It was al...Arnold Bennett unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849'[T]he few men who are about me are all eager to get yr books but what has vexd me is that the 2 children & 4 young Women to whom I endeavoured to read them did not chuse...Lady Caroline Lamb William GodwinunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart from work for his law examinations; though he admits t...Arnold Bennett OuidaunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart from work for his law examinations; though he admits t...Arnold Bennett Emile ZolaunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend George Paston. It was through a review of a book by...Arnold Bennett Henry JamesunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend George Paston. It was through a review of a book by...Arnold Bennett Thomas HardyunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend George Paston. It was through a review of a book by...Arnold Bennett George PastonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend George Paston. It was through a review of a book by...Arnold Bennett H G WellsunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday the news came of Mrs Gaskell's death. She died suddenly while reading aloud to her daughters'.Elizabeth Gaskell unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.George Eliot [pseud.] TheocritusunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] George GroteunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud] Marcus AureliusunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 2 April 1799: 'In the many hours I have spent alone this week, I have been able, though by very little bits at a time, to go entirely through...Mary Berry Mary WollstonecraftunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'PBS reads Diogenes Laertius.'Perct Bysshe Shelley Diogenes LaertiusunknownPrint: Book


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