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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828: 'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your English [...] Besides this, I have been reading severa...Elizabeth Barrett St ChrysostomunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828: 'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your English [...] Besides this, I have been reading severa...Elizabeth Barrett St ChrysostomunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'All the while I am writing now my head is running about the Tropics: in the morning I go and gaze at Palm trees in the hot-house and come home and read Humboldt: my enth...Charles Darwin HumboldtunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I hope you continue to fan your Canary ardor: I read & reread Humboldt, do you do the same, & I am sure nothing will prevent us seeing the Great Dragon tree.' Charles Darwin HumboldtunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'After looking at my 11 books of Euclid, & first part of Algebra (including binomial theorem?) I may then begin Trigonometry after which must I begin Spherical? are there...Charles Darwin EuclidunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I now first felt even moderately well, & I was picturing to myself all the delights of fresh fruit growing in beautiful valleys, & reading Humboldts descriptions of the ...Charles Darwin HumboldtunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'If you really want to have a [notion] of tropical countries, study Humboldt.? Skip th[e] scientific parts & commence after leaving Teneriffe.? My feelings amount to admi...Charles Darwin Alexander von HumboldtunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late March 1839: 'Beloved Papa & Sette were obliged to go away two days ago [...] Sette's gossipings & secret- tellings wer...Septimus Moulton-Barrett CaesarunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 June 1839: 'I mean to make an extract of your legal admirations and send them to my brother George who begins his circuit...George Goodin Moulton-Barrett Sir Edward CokeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ev...Jane Baillie Welsh Vittorio AlfieriUnknownPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I have before me as I write a photo by Sir Aurel Stein showing the body of a man of Turfan buried fifteen centuries ago, and it is hard to belive that he is even dead. ...Martin Louis Alan Gompertz ('Ganpat') Sir Aurel SteinunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ev...Jane Baillie Welsh Publius Cornelius TacitusUnknownPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'...Washington Irving, too, has a few delightful fragments of equal fidelity, rendered elegant by the elegance of his own mind.'Eleanor Anne Porden Washington IrvingUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes, and was amused, and on the whole much pleased with ...Barbara Hofland Fanny KembleunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'The best account I have read of America, as it now is, I have found in a book written by H. Tudor, Esq. (a townsman of my own whom I knew very well in his early life, so...Barbara Hofland H. TudorunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'This morning I have been reading Matthew Arnold, for my Anthology, in an easy chair in the sun. This afternoon I shall do some gardening. I have a garden-bed, under my w...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell Matthew ArnoldunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'These last two nights have been the most fearful of the war. The Battle of Britain is raging round us. Tonight continuous bombing and gunfire have shaken the house. A...Sidney Webb unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 30 March 1842: 'I have been reading Emerson -- He does away with individuality & personality in a most extraordin...Elizabeth Barrett Ralph Waldo EmersonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 October 1842: 'I had the gratification of receiving a good while ago, two copies of a volume of your writing, which I hav...William Wordsworth Elizabeth BarrettunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was c...Elizabeth Barrett George SandunknownPrint: Book


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