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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
 
1850-1899?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I made a reputation on board by reciting one of the p...anon Sir Alfred LyallVerses written in IndiaPrint: Book
1850-1899?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I made a reputation on board by reciting one of the p...Leslie Stephen Sir Alfred LyallVerses written in IndiaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottfried HerderVerstand und ErfahrungPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Carl Alexander Ferdinand KlugeVersuch einer Darstellung des animalischen MagnetiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Carl Alexander Ferdinand KlugeVersuch einer Darstellung des animalischen MagnetiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottlieb FichteVersuch einer Kritik aller OffenbarungPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottlieb FichteVersuch einer Kritik aller OffenbarungPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Karl Leonhard ReinholdVersuch einer neueren Theorie des menschlichen Vor...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gebbard Ehrenreich MaassVersuch uber die EinbildungskraftPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation" [...] it appears to me that I have read in my life few more melancholy books'.Elizabeth Barrett Robert ChalmersVestiges of the Natural HIstory of CreationPrint: Book
1850-1899"In order to read Lyell's controversial Vestiges of Creation when it first came to the house [of the Nonconformist minister in whose family she worked as companion and he...Mary Smith LyellVestiges of CreationPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation". The writer has a certain power in tying a knot -- -- (in mating a system) -...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert ChambersVestiges of the Natural History of CreationPrint: Book
1800-1849'which has much that is able, startling, striking; it is said not be be accurate in its details, & it obviously strikes out often at random, his account of creation does ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Robert ChambersVestiges of the Natural History of CreationPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Hans Busk, 6 July 1819: 'Dear Sir, Your writings are not to be hurried over; this must plead my excuse for not having thanked you earlier for the "V...William Wordsworth Hans BuskVestriad, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'In my wooden hut, by means of a folding card-table and a remnant of black satin for tablecloth, I made a small shrine for a few of the books that Roland and I had admire...Vera Brittain Robert Hugh BensonVexilla RegisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue 4th.XII.31. Howard R. Smith (Chair)
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
6. Charles Stansfield then ...		Victor Alexander Sabine Baring GouldVicar of MorwenstowPrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dartmoor tale. He also gave us a short criticism of Bari...Howard R. Smith Sabine Baring-GouldVicar of Morwenstow, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'His plan was to make use of me as a talking dictionary and grammar, confining my teachings exclusively to the answering of such questions as he thought fit to put. Havin...Oliver GoldsmithVicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervantes, Fielding, Smollet, Richardson, Miss Burney, Volt...James Lackington GoldsmithVicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
'[Johnson said] "I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield", which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: 'I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithVicar of WakefieldManuscript: Unknown


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