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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
 
1500-1599
1600-1699		Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: 'Mie principal Autors for Warr, after much reading,...Gabriel Harvey Digges StratioticosunknownPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: 'Mie principal Autors for Warr, after much reading,...Gabriel Harvey Sir Roger WilliamsunknownPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Eunapius unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Tacitus unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Philostratus unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Julian unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Guillaume de Saluste du BartasunknownPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Homer unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Hesiod unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Virgil unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'My beloved hour of the day was when the [table] cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert, and read Shakspere by firelight in winter in the drawing-room. My mo...Harriet Martineau William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'The edition of Hartley that I used was Dr. Priestley's [...] That book I studied with a fervour and persev...Harriet Martineau David HartleyunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'I surrendered myself [...] to the charm of Dugald Stewart's writings'.Harriet Martineau Dugald StewartunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on a stay with her brother and his wife at Torquay in spring 1823: 'It was my office to read aloud for many hours of each day [...] Before breakfast, an...Harriet Martineau unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really feared being obliged to give up a singularly good illu...Harriet Martineau Maria GrahamunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really feared being obliged to give up a singularly good illu...Harriet Martineau HeberunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'[The eldest Hallam daughter] died [...] while her mother was reading to her. She exclaimed "Stop!" and was dead within five minutes'. unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'About nine, the first gleams of the sun slanted into the abbey [...] The brightness, vastness, and dream...Harriet Martineau unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 7 November 1847: 'Tomorrow morning I begin upon my (necessary) sketch of the history of Egypt; and in preparation I have been reading ...Harriet Martineau HeerenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 7 November 1847: 'Tomorrow morning I begin upon my (necessary) sketch of the history of Egypt; and in preparation I have been reading ...Harriet Martineau WarburtonunknownPrint: Book


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