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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
 
1700-1799'On Tuesday the 30th. I began reading for the 1st time Anson's "Voyage round the World", w'th which I was much amused and interested.'John Marsh Richard WalterAnson's Voyage round the WorldPrint: 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 Richard WalterVoyage round the World in the years MDCCXL, I, II,...
1800-1849'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads Don Q. aloud after tea - Finish Anson's voyage befor...Mary Godwin Richard WalterA Voyage round the World in the years MDCCXL, I, I...Print: Book
1800-1849'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being f...Jane Sewell Richard WalterVoyage Around the World by George AnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 December 1811: 'I have read Watson to Gibbon. He proves nothing, so I am where I was, verging towards Spinoza ... 'George Gordon, Lord Byron Richard WatsonApology for Christianity, in a Series of Letters t...Print: Book
1800-1849'Bedale club. Sat next to Dr Scott who told wonderful stories of the effect which Bell's Mode of Education had caused at the charterhouse. [...] Some of Watson's life whi...Benjamin Newton Richard WatsonAnecdotes of the life of Richard Watson [...] writPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson notes, partially reproduces, and discusses lengthy annotations, including mock completion of title and close, argumentative marginal responses to text, made...anon Richard WatsonA Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of CanterburyPrint: Unknown
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses highly "adversarial" annotations made by anonymous reader in copy of Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, "A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of ...Richard WatsonA Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of CanterburyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Recieved a letter & present of books from Lord Radstock containing Hannah Moores "Spirit of Prayer" - Bp Wilsons "Maxims", Burnets "Life of God in the Soul of Man" - "A ...John Clare Richard WatsonAn Apology for the Bible, in a Series of LettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Bp. Watson's "Apology for the Bible", in reply to Paine....'Thomas Green Richard WatsonApology for the BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pasc...James Lackington Richard WatsonAn Apology for the Bible Print: Book
1700-1799'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Essays", which he liked very well, and his own "Prince ...Samuel Johnson Richard WatsonChemical EssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Have you seen a little volume of Westall's Poems containing a DAY in SPRING, and other detached pieces, with four lovely engravings from his own designs? One of them rep...Sarah Harriet Burney Richard WestallA Day in Spring, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. When ...Sarah Harriet Burney Richard WestallDay in Spring, APrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Richard WeymouthThe Naval, Military and Village Hymn BookPrint: Book
1800-1849'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. Bu...Mary Smith Richard WhateleyLogicPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of Wiseman's "Chyrurgery".'Thomas Turner Richard WisemanSeveral Chirurgical TreatisesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name]Death of a HeroPrint: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name][poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912: 'The day before yesterday I read The Ghost Ship by R. Middleton [...] I thought it very good, and it added to the other qu...Edward Morgan Forster Richard Barham Middleton'The Ghost Ship'


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