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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
 
1900-1945'You ought to read "He looked in my Window" by Robert Halifax (publ. by Chatto & Windus). It is really remarkable.' Arnold Bennett Robert HalifaxHe Looked in my WindowPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Henry's History of England, which I will repeat to you in any manner you may prefer, either in a loose, disultary [sic], unconnected strain, or dividing my ...Jane Austen Robert HenryHistory of Great BritainPrint: Book
1800-1849"in spring 1800 ... [Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ..."William Wordsworth Robert HeronObservations Made in a Journey through the Western...Print: Book
1700-1799'[Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ... 'William Wordsworth Robert HeronObservations Made in a Journey through the Western...Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849'[Mark L.] Reed judges that a passage on pedlars from Heron was entered in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 5 April 1800 ... 'Wordsworth FamilyRobert HeronObservations Made in a Journey through the Western...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... the whimsey of Lamb and the stirring rhythmic ta...Chaim Lewis Robert Herrick Print: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 8th February, Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick. Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonation?. How efficiently this stuff is written. Exci...Gerald Moore Robert HerrickunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699"Foremost among ... [John Flamsteed's] critics was ... [Robert] Hooke, whose Cometa Flamsteed read with disdain ... [suggesting] that Hooke's prescriptions for astronomic...John Flamsteed Robert HookeCometaPrint: Book
1600-1699'Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr Hooke's "Microscopicall Observacions", the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.'Samuel Pepys Robert HookeMicrographia [?]Print: Book
1900-1945'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna".....Charles Spencer Chaplin Robert Ingersoll[speeches on agnosticism]Print: Book
1800-1849'With regard to reading, you would think I have enough of time upon my hands at present: yet the truth is, I have often read more, almost never studied less!... There is ...Thomas Carlyle Robert JamesonUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Jenkin's is the most copious and the best work I ever read in defence of divine revelation. It treats in a clear manner of the necessity of a divine revelation, antiqui...James Lackington Robert JenkinReasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Reli...Print: Unknown
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, Butler's Divine Analogy, Pal...James Lackington Robert JenkinReasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Reli...Print: Book
1900-1945'Reading Injuries to Joints — capital. Nice & cool again.'Albert Ruskin Cook Robert JonesInjuries to JointsPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
Surgical Diagnosis – Martin
Tropical Diseases – Stitt
Abdominal Injuries – Morison & R.
Household ...		Albert Ruskin Cook Robert JonesInjuries to JointsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Robert JonesNotes on Military OrthopædicsPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 18 September 1850: 'You should be very thankful that books cannot "talk to each other as well as to their readers" ... Dr Knox alone, wi...Charlotte Bronte Robert KnoxThe Races of Men: A FragmentPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, George Smith, 18 September 1850:

'You should be very thankful that books cannot "talk to each other as well as to the read...		Charlotte Brontë Robert KnoxThe Races of MenPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: ms note on binding page appears to refer both to the battle of Flodden and to poems about it: '... The battle of Flodden Field which was fought between the...Robert LambeAn exact and circumstantial history of the battle ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert LeightonThe Genuine Works of R Leighton, D.D. Archbishop oPrint: Book


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