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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'Finish the Rights of Woman - begin Chesterfields Letters to his son'Mary Godwin Mary WollstonecraftVindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Vind. of the Right of Woman'Mary Shelley Mary WollstonecraftVindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton'Mary Shelley Mary WollstonecraftVindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Mackinosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae". His style and manner in the Piece are magnificent, but uniformly cumbrous, and occasionally coarse...'Thomas Green Sir James MackintoshVindiciae GallicaePrint: Book
1700-1799[note in diary upon finishing Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae"]: 'As far as I am a Judge I think this work very well understood. The author is master on his subject & ha...Anna Larpent James MackintoshVindiciae GalliciaePrint: Book
1600-1699May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits mee), wherin he sayeth there is to be a disowning, a...Isaac Archer Richard AlleineVindiciae Pietatis; or, a Vindication of GodlinessPrint: Book
1800-1849'Disputes run very high here upon the subject of ''Violet''. Some of the party are quite convinced it is written by a woman and have some suspicions it is Mrs Marsh ......Emma Wedgwood Marian Dora Malet BeasleyViolet; or the DanseusePrint: Book
1800-1849'Violets. a Sonnet / Bernard Barton' 'Beautiful are you in your lowliness/...[transcript of poem]Mary Groom Bernard BartonViolets. A SonnetUnknown
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh John DrydenVirgil's husbandry; or, An essay on the GeorgicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "Virgin and Child"] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'Charles Lamb Mary Anne LambVirgin and ChildManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'He returned to London to . . . Lawrence's "Virgin and the Gipsy", which he admired even more [than "Cakes and Ale"].'Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceVirgin and the Gipsy, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriVirginiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sun. read "Virginia of the Rhodesians" by Cynthia Stockley. Miserable day.'William Thomas Cynthia StockleyVirginia of the RhodesiansPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water (a sweet white grape); God; -- all founded, & tease...Virginia Woolf Elizabeth JenkinsVirginia WaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'In some respects this little work of criticism is the profoundest of Winifred's books.'Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbyVirginia WoolfPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 31 May 1935: 'Some good German woman sends a pamphlet on me, into which I couldnt resist looking, though nothing so much upsets & demoralises as this looking at on...Virginia Woolf Ruth GruberVirginia Woolf: A StudyPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... Jefferson on Virginia .....Mountstuart Elphinstone [Thomas] JeffersonVirginia [Notes on state of]Print: Book
1850-1899?We even formed a magazine club ? purchasing periodicals, reading them in turn, and then distributing them among the members. Thackeray?s "Virginians" and Dickens?s "Litt...William Adams and colleagues at the office of the 'Illustrated Times'William ThackerayVirginiansPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with a hearty greeting. 'We' are Meta, & Julia - for who...Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and JuliaWilliam Makepeace ThackerayVirginians, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849?In May 1820 Sheridan Knowles produced ?Virginius?. The extraordinary success of that play naturally excited Maturin?s curiosity, and he was impatient to read it. ? When ...Charles Robert Maturin James Sheridan KnowlesVirginiusPrint: Book


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