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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
 
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - ...Mary Shelley Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de CondorcetVie de voltaire par le Marquis de Condorcet; suivi...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday March 26th [...] Begin Condorcet's Life of Voltaire [goes on to note anecdote from this]'.Claire Clairmont CondorcetVie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Volta...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday March 29th [...] Read Condorcet's Life of Voltaire. [...] 'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish the Life of Voltaire by Condorcet.'Claire Clairmont CondorcetVie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Volta...Print: Book
1700-1799'I was reading to the Girls to day More's Acct of The King of Prussia's Severity to his favourite Valet who unable to endure it, shot himself' [there follows a long accou...Hester Lynch Thrale John MooreView of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland...Print: Book
1700-1799'When we were speaking of Dr. Moore?s Travels, I told her that the Character of Mr. C.?reminded me of our friend Mr. Seward . . .'Frances Burney John MooreView of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland...Print: Book
1900-1945In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th...Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) William PaleyView of the Evidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1800-1849'The first entire work that I read in defence of revealed religion, was Archdeacon Paley's View of the Evidences of Christianity. This very excellent work I perhaps neve...James Lackington William PaleyView of the Evidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";--JOHNSON. "I think it a pretty book; not very theolo...Samuel Johnson Soame JenynsView of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Rel...Print: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";--JOHNSON. "I think it a pretty book; not very theolo...James Boswell Soame JenynsView of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Rel...Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C....Mary Robson Henry NewboltVigil, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'An author's name carries weight with me, but results are sometimes disappointing - e.g. I enjoyed Evelyn Waugh's "Decline and Fall", and so I bought "Vile Bodies" only ...Evelyn WaughVile BodiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'a greater mixture of very good & very bad that I remember to have read — great occasional beauty of thought & language, greater still in the delineation of charact...G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Charlotte BrontëVilettePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The Village of Mariendorpt, full of the most touching p...Sarah Harriet Burney Anna Maria PorterVillage of Mariendorpt, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899A volume of sermons, marked with dates and what appears to be a system of initials - possibly some sort of reminder? Examples: "E.F.I. [?] April 24th -1853/Nov. 13th ..53...George BurderVillage sermons: or, fifty-two plain and short dis...Print: Book
1700-1799'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer your very obliging letter till I had read the Parish re...Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland George CrabbeVillage, ThePrint: Book
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1800-1849		'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant o...Walter Scott George CrabbeVillage, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dost not remember this compliment, but I remember the i...Richard Shackleton George CrabbeVillage, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as well as his obliging service to authours, were ready as...Samuel Johnson George CrabbeVillage, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as well as his obliging service to authours, were ready as...James Boswell George CrabbeVillage, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ...Philip Inman Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book


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