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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[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding unknownVelvet Deer, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899"[Gladstone's] daughter Mary and her husband, the Revd Harry Drew, read Vendetta together in 1887, noting 'goodish plot but rather rot otherwise'."Harry and Mary DrewMarie CorelliVendettaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheVenetian EpigramsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899[between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889] 'Horatio Brown, the well-known writer on Venetian history and art, was one of the English colony who ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Horatio BrownVenetian StudiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am enjoying Moule's "Veni Creator".'Albert Ruskin Cook Handley Carr Glyn MouleVeni CreatorPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis. It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of Procris'.Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareVenus and AdonisPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's...Marie Stopes William ShakespeareVenus and AdonisPrint: Book
1850-1899'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareVenus and AdonisPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell Elizabeth von ArminVeraPrint: Book
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell Elizabeth von ArminVeraPrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Domenico ComparettiVergileo nel Medio EvoPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantVermischte SchriftenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantVermischte SchriftenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantVermischte Schriften (vol II (of 4))Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantVermischte Schriften (vols I-III (of 4))Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas AbbtiVermischte WerkePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, describing how hours following William Wordsworth's marriage to Mary Hutchinson on 4 October 1802 spent: '... [at Kirby] we wen...Wordsworth Family verse epitaphPrint: tombstone epitaph
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 4 May 1802, describing excursion to local river and waterfall: 'We [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, and S. T. Coleridge] .....William Wordsworth William WordsworthversesManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 4 May 1802, describing excursion to local river and waterfall: 'We [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, and S. T. Coleridge] .....Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeversesManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 24 June 1822: 'Mr. McSwiney dined with us yesterday and was shown your Greek epitaph, in the first place he s...Daniel McSwiney Elizabeth BarrettversesManuscript: Unknown


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