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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'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Catherine Talbot Sarah Fieldingvarious worksPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "I have been looking up Innsbruck in various works at the Athenaeum, so that I may at least spend a few summer hours with you i...Henry James unknownvarious works (dealing with Innsbruck)Print: Unknown
1700-1799I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landla...Francis Place various [biographies]Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place various [history]Print: Book
1700-1799I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landla...Francis Place various [Law books]Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place various [politics and law]Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place various [voyages]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 ...Percy Bysshe Shelley William BeckfordVathekPrint: Book
1800-1849'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though she did include some novels - Miss Edgewort...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke William BeckfordVathekPrint: Book
1800-1849'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though it did include some novels -- Miss Edgeworth's and B...Anne Isabella Milbanke William BeckfordVathekPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mama read the beginning of "Wateck" to us. I fell asleep'.Agathe Wynne William BeckfordVathekPrint: Unknown
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 William BeckfordVathek
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read "Vathek" at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the im...Joseph Conrad William BeckfordVathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Cali...Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottlieb FichteVeber den Begriff der WissenschaftslehnePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Heinrich JacobiVeber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den HerrPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Heinrich JacobiVeber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herr...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Heinrich JacobiVeber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herr...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Vegetable World, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and fi...George Eliot [pseud] ManniVeglie PiacevolePrint: Book
1700-1799'We read today in the "Veilees du Chateau" I think that book very good for the young people'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Stephanie Felicite de GenlisVeilees du Chateua ou Cours Morale a l'usage des E...Print: Book


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