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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
 
1700-1799Frances Sheridan to Samuel Richardson, 18 December 1757: 'I have seen some extracts from the History of the Magdalens, which gives me a curiosity to read the whole.'Frances Sheridan unknownHistory of the Magdalens (extracts)Unknown
1800-1849Francis Horner to his sister, 26 October 1815: 'I told you I was reading Don Roderick the Goth; and notwithstanding the romance of the original story, it was with fa...Francis Horner Robert SoutheyRoderick, the Last of the GothsPrint: Book
1800-1849Fri 10 Mar 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - improving in Scripture knowledge'female convicts [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Fri 19 Jan 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - improving much'female convicts [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Fri 31 Jan 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - desirous to improve'female convicts [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 1 November 1940: 'My Times book this week is E. F. Benson's last autobigraphy [...] I learn there the perils of glibness.'Virginia Woolf E. F. BensonFinal Edition, an Informal AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'Virginia Woolf William CongreveLove for LovePrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'Virginia Woolf Sir Charles MallettAnthony Hope and His BooksPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 14 December 1917: 'Today we went to see Philip at Fishmongers Hall [being used as military hospital] [...] a great burly cavalry officer was reading his book in ...anon unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 14 February 1931: 'Janet Case yesterday [...] I suppose over 70 now [...] She clings to youth. "But we never see any young people" & so reads Tom Eliot &c'.Janet Case T. S. EliotunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle wrote better than Lytton [Strachey], then to see if ...Virginia Woolf Thomas Carlyle'reminiscences'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle wrote better than Lytton [Strachey], then to see if ...Virginia Woolf Thomas Babington MacaulayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen unknown'18th Century prose'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Richard HakluytunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Prosper MerimeeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Thomas CarlyleunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Walter ScottLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen J. G. LockhartLife of Walter ScottPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Edward GibbonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen unknownbiographical worksPrint: Book


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