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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
 
1600-1699'After praier I reed ouer certaine papers of instruction [which] I had receiued from Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby Richard Rhodes?[papers of instruction]Unknown
1600-1699'November 30. I was reading, and meditating upon what I read in Mr Rogers his book of faith, viz. that there must be legall preparations before faith is wrought in the so...Isaac Archer Richard RogersCertain Sermons . . . to establish and settle all ...Print: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 August 1871, during visit to friends at Ashbourne Green, Derbyshire: 'I have been reading [italics]Episodes of an Obscure Lif...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Richard RoweEpisodes in an Obscure LifePrint: Unknown
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on Raymond Lull's Art of Memory, copied from the second edition of Richard Saunders's Physiognomie, and C...Edward Pordage Richard SaundersPhysiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, The S...Print: Book
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle Richard Savage[Poems]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Next morning at breakfast, [10th June 1784] he pointed out a passage in Savage's "Wanderer", saying, "These are fine verses". "If (said he) I had written with hostility ...Samuel Johnson Richard SavageWanderer, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his ...Hester Lynch Thrale Richard SavageWanderer, ThePrint: 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 SibbesThe Bruised Reed and Smoking FlaxPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th...Mary Smith Richard Steele Print: Book
1850-1899'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel...William Robertson Nicoll Richard SteeleunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this time, not moved him. Likewise, Pope, whose translati...John Masefield Richard Steele[essays]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mary Martin came to live with me at 30s per year. Read "The Conscious Lovers" in the even.'Thomas Turner Richard SteeleThe Conscious LoversPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Sir Richard Steele's Dedication of his Account of the state of the Roman Catholic Religion to the Pope'.Dudley Ryder Richard SteeleAn Account of the State of the Roman Catholic Reli...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What anAladdin's cave it...Sir John Hammerton Richard Steele[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Looked over the first Vol. of the "Tatlers"...'Thomas Green Richard SteeleThe TatlerPrint: Book
1700-1799'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - Steele's Essays were mentioned - but they are too thi...Samuel Johnson Richard Steele[Essays]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 25, I dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, with the learned Dr. Musgrave, Counsellor Leland of Ireland, son to the historian, Mrs. Cholmondeley, a...Dr Musgrave Richard TickellProject, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 25, I dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, with the learned Dr. Musgrave, Counsellor Leland of Ireland, son to the historian, Mrs. Cholmondeley, a...Samuel Johnson Richard TickellProject, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 23 August 1821, on sources for descriptions in Don Juan Canto III: 'much of the description of the furniture in Canto 3d. is taken from Tully's Trip...George Gordon Lord Byron Richard TullyNarrative of a Ten Years' Residence at the Court o...Print: BookManuscript: Letter
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 TwissTravels through Portugal and Spain Print: Book


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