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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"Now my lot in the Heavens is this, Milton lov'd me in/childhood & shew'd me his face./Ezra came with Isaiah the Prophet, but Shakespeare in riper/ years gave me his hand...William Blake John MiltonunknownUnknown
1800-1849"I shall not be able to avail myself of the assistance of Bruno's fairies." [Reference to writings of Giordano Bruno 1548-1600. Italian Heretic philosopher - according to...William Blake Giordano BrunounknownUnknown
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1814: all the titles have database entries based on journal entries about reading them] Diogenes Laertius Cicero - Colectanea. Petron...Percy Bysshe Shelley PetroniusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Virgilunknown
1700-1799'Here is the work of one week of my solitude - by the many faults in it your Lordship will easily believe I spend no more time upon it; it was hardly finished when I was ...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu EpictetusunknownUnknown
1700-1799'I have perused the last lampoon of your ingenious friend, and am not surprised you did not find me out under the name of Sappho, because there is nothing I ever heard in...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Alexander PopeunknownUnknown
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, 'You will think me very fanciful, investing plants with sentiment, but you may trust me when I assure you, I don?t borrow from Harvey. The...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] HarveyunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, and a kind of natural courtesy; in short, they are n...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Tobias SmollettunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school, or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary Wollstonecroft?s book, which is so run after here, ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Mary WollstonecroftunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs F--R (formerly Miss Ourry) April 11 1795 ??Innovation disconcerts us; new lights blind us; we detest the Rights of Man, and abominate those of Woman. Think ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Helen Maria WilliamsunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs F--R , April 7 1797 'They are very happy too in their eldest son, who promises to be all that they prayed for; but he is rather delicate in his constitution...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jonathan SwiftunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter to Miss Dunbar May 17 1803 'You must have felt some of the pains and penalties of authorship, to have any ideas of the cordial satisfaction I derived from reading ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Elizabeth Rose of KilravockunknownUnknown
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Ourry September 1791 'Clanship, doubtless, narrows the affections, and produces many absurd and unpleasing associations; yet it is better to love forty or f...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] ["Parisian philosophers"]unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am better now; but it leaves me in a state of intellectual prostration, fit for nothing but smoking, and reading Charles Baudelaire.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles BaudelaireunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Therefore, good-bye, I am going to take my beer and sardines; after which to bed and a chapter or two of Fielding.'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry FieldingunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'Robert Louis Stevenson Geoffrey ChaucerunknownUnknown
1850-1899'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'Robert Louis Stevenson William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear that Cambridge and London were a bit archaic as to the ...Winifred Agnes Moore Arthur Cecil PigouunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'Robert Louis Stevenson Christopher MarloweunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'Robert Louis Stevenson FletcherunknownPrint: Book


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