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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'I have just begun to read Mr Knight's Book, which you were very kind in sending.'Dorothy Wordsworth Richard Payne KnightAn Analytical Enquiry into the Principles of TastePrint: Book
1700-1799'A 28-line transcription in Wordsworth's hand appears in the Alfoxden Notebook (Dove Cottage MS 14) of a quotation from Richard Payne Knight's The Progress of Civil Socie...William Wordsworth Richard Payne KnightProgress of Civil Society, A Didactic Poem, TheUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 27 July 1800: 'In the morning, I read Mr. Knight's Landscape.'Dorothy Wordsworth Richard Payne KnightThe Landscape: A Didactic Poem in Three BooksPrint: Book
1500-1599'In the early 1590s [Gabriel Harvey] studied Spanish with the aid of Antonio de Corro's "Spanish Grammer" (1590) and Richard Perceval's "Bibliotheca Hispanica"(1591), an ...Gabriel Harvey Richard PercevalBibliotheca HispanicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a portion of Sir R Phillips "Tour".'John Cole Richard PhillipsTourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour" and Journal.'John Cole Richard PhillipsTourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour" and Journal.'John Cole Richard PhillipsJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour".'John Cole Richard PhillipsTourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read an acct of the walkers of Rotherham in Sir Rich'd's book. I knew them well at Scarborough i.e. the descendents of the original where, in the season, they were const...John Cole Richard PhillipsTourPrint: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Richard PocockeDescription of the East and Some other Countries,Print: Book
1800-1849Read the psalms and lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and ...My aunt read aloud 17, PolwheleAnne Lister Richard PolwheleSermons: a new volumePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron in letter to Annabella Milbanke of 7 September 1814 praises Richard Porson's Letters to Archdeacon Travis (alluded to by Milbanke in a previous letter) but notes th...George Gordon Lord Byron Richard PorsonLetters to Archdeacon TravisUnknown
1800-1849'Finished Porson's "Letters to Travis", on the disputed passage in John...'Thomas Green Richard PorsonLetters to Mr. Archdeacon TravisPrint: Book
1700-1799'I had rather you would not read Dr Price's sermons, as they would lead you into controversial disputes, and your limited range of books would not afford you a clue - the...Mary Wollstonecraft Richard PriceSermons on the Christian Doctrine, as Received by ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I had rather you would not read Dr Price's sermons, as they would lead you into controversial disputes, and your limited range of books would not afford you a clue - the...Mary Wollstonecraft Richard PriceFour DissertationsPrint: Book
1800-1849'At the request of our landlady, I looked over a volume of Sermons by the eminent Unitarian minister, Dr. Price. I did this, however, out of mere courtesy: for although I...Thomas Carter Richard Price[volume of sermons]Print: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor ...Mark Grossek Richard QuainDictionary of MedicinePrint: Book
1500-1599[unsure if reading or writing?] 'then I wrett the most part of an examenation or triall of a christian, framed by Mr Rhodes'.Margaret Hoby Richard Rhodes[Examination of the trial of a Christian]Unknown
1600-1699'and here I read the Qu's to Knepp while she answered me, through all her part of "Flora's Figarys", which was acted today' [She = Nell Gwyn]Samuel Pepys Richard RhodesFlora's VagariesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and att night, I had read a letter that Came from Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby Richard RhodesletterManuscript: Letter


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