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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I am obliged to Nares for a very handsome review. it is my intention next year to write a tragedy. the...Robert Southey Robert NaresReview of work by SoutheyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799' [Johnson said] The excellent Mr. Nelson's "Festivals and Fasts," which has, I understand, the greatest sale of any book ever printed in England, except the Bible, is a ...Samuel Johnson Robert NelsonCompanion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Churc...Print: Book
1700-1799'A Mother was making her Little Son read Nelson's Feasts and Fasts - this says he is a very good book to be sure Mama, all about our Saviourand the Apostles - but surely ...Robert NelsonCompanion for the festivals and fasts of the Churc...Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen Robert Nicholls' poems? If you are a reader of "Tait's Magazine", you will see the review of them; that is a right manly and sterling volume of poetry, ful...Mary Howitt Robert NichollsArouse the SoulPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen Robert Nicholls' poems? If you are a reader of "Tait's Magazine", you will see the review of them; that is a right manly and sterling volume of poetry, ful...Mary Howitt Robert NichollsI Dare not ScornPrint: Book
1900-1945'About 2/3rds of this play is undoubtedly very fine. I think it weakens in structure in the 3rd act. . . . I only met the dedication tonight. Thanks. It is very agreea...Arnold Bennett Robert NicholsGuillty SoulsPrint: completed draft of play
1900-1945'Yesterday, I underwent one of the greatest experiences in my life - at a "Poets Reading" in aid of charity. The whole thing made one feel like a bird that has blundered ...Edith Sitwell Robert NicholsDon JuanManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astonishing skill and verve, but too diffuse by far in its movem...Arnold Bennett Robert NicholsGolgotha & Co. Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Robert OrmeHistory of HindustanPrint: 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 ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert PaltockLife and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Ma...Print: 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 Robert PaltockThe Life and Adventures of Peter WilkinsPrint: Book
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford Robert ParsonThe first booke of the Christian exercise, apperta...Print: Book
1600-1699'A poor day-labourer in the town ... had an old torn book which he lent my father, which was called "Bunny's Resolution"... And in the reading of this book (when I was ab...Richard Baxter Robert ParsonsBunny's ResolutionPrint: Book
1600-1699'In the morning my father and I walked in the garden and read the Will; where though he gives me nothing at present till my father's death, or at least very little, yet I...Samuel Pepys Robert PepysThe Will of Robert Pepys of BramptonManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'Home at noon, and there find Mr Moore and with him to an ordinary alone and dined; and there he and I read my Uncles Will and I had his opinion on it, and still find mor...Samuel Pepys Robert PepysThe Will of Robert Pepys of BramptonManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert PercivalAn Account of the Island of CeylonPrint: Book
1600-1699'But the Mother ... coming one Morning early into her Chamber, she found her Reading in a Book in Bed, at which the Daughter being surprized, let it fall into the Bed, an...Ann Ketelbey Robert Persons (or Parsons)[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'We viewed a remarkable natural curiosity at Islam; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock, not from immediate springs, but after having run for many miles und...James Boswell Robert PlottNatural History of StaffordshirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 73 Northcourt Avenue
Friday 28th March 1930
1. Minutes of last meeting were approved.
[...]
6. A warm message of sympathy to be s...		Robert Pollard Robert Pollard[Talkie & colour films]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842: 'I have read through Pollock's Course of Time, -- & I confess it appeared to me an extroardinary [sic] w...Elizabeth Barrett Robert PollockThe Course of TimePrint: Book


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