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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
 
1700-179913 Dec 1788 Another long quotation from Smith's translation: 'The Sublime is a certain force in discourse... from these three particulars joined together.' Also listed...Frances Hamilton Rev William SmithPoetic Works including his version of Longinus on ...Print: Book
1850-1899James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed b...Rev. F. D. Maurice Rev. F. D. Mauricepaper on meanings of words 'nature,' 'natural,' 's...Unknown
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of “Friendship” by the Revd Francis Murray.Catherine Austen Rev. Francis MurrayFriendshipUnknown
1700-1799'One thing, however, yet remains to us & dares to baffle all the wickedness of the Ministry, the tyranny of the Crown, & the various horrours of these ruinous times, ?Man...Frances Burney Rev. George ButtTimoleonManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'As a young man in America, he had been deeply impressed by "Salathiel", a pious prose romance of that then popular writer, the Rev. George Croly."Philip Gosse Rev. George CrolySalathielPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'St Paul at Philippi, from the Seatonian Prize Poems. - By the Revd. J.E. Hankinson M. A. - 1833.' A poem beginn...C.M.G. [anon] Rev. J.E. HankinsonSt Paul at PhilippiUnknown
1800-1849'"Forget Thee?" By the Rev John Moultrie [transcript of poem].Mary Groom Rev. John MoultrieForget Thee?Unknown
1800-1849'Sunday Feb. 22. [...] Read Berrington's History of the Middle Ages.'Claire Clairmont Rev. Joseph BerringtonA Literary History of the Middle AgesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weepi...Frances Stevenson Rev. Richard H. BarhamThe Ingoldsby LegendsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nor must I omit to mention the obligations I owe to some essays written by the late Rev. Thomas Scott and which were given me by my master. I do not remember their exact...Thomas Carter Rev. Thomas Scott[various essays]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading -- pray who may be the Sexagenarian -- whose gossip...George Gordon Lord Byron Rev. William BeloeThe Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary L...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read Mr Jefferson's case to Edward [Austen], and he desires to have his name set down for a guinea and his wife's for another; but does not with for more than one...Jane Austen Revd T. JeffersonRequest for subscribers for "Two Sermons"Unknown
1900-1945Henry James to Rhoda Broughton, 10 August 1914: 'we walked, this strange Sunday afternoon (9th), my niece Peggy, her youngest brother and I [...] to see and have tea with...Lady Mathew Rhoda BroughtonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "Not Wisely but too Well" by Miss Rhoda Broughton.'Virginia Woolf Rhoda BroughtonNot Wisely but Too WellPrint: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Rhoda Broughton Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I lay in my sleeping bag reading Mr.Richard Aldington's cynical book "Death of a Hero". it is an admirable work but I would have preferred Mr. P.G.Wodehouse on this occa...Frank Smythe Richard AldingtonDeath of a HeroPrint: Book
1600-1699May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits mee), wherin he sayeth there is to be a disowning, a...Isaac Archer Richard AlleineVindiciae Pietatis; or, a Vindication of GodlinessPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 2 May 1812 M[ary] W[ordsworth] wrote to her husband from Hindwell: "I have read the 'Ladies calling' - one of thy books - which pleased me much ... " Mary Wordsworth Richard AllestreeLadies Calling, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man".'Thomas Turner Richard AllestreeThe new whole duty of man, containing the faith as...Print: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sherlock on death.'Thomas Turner Richard AllestreeThe whole new duty of man, containing the faith as...Print: Book


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