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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
 
1800-1849Monday, 11 June 1827: 'The attendance on the committee and afterwards the Gnl meeting of the Oil Gas Company took up my morning and the rest dribbled away in correctin...Walter Scott Benjamin DisraeliVivian GreyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Mary Elizabeth BraddonVixenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Giuseppe Luca PasiniVocabolario Italiano-Latino per uso degli studiosiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on Rimbaud the day had gone well... Eric has promised ...Antonia White [n/a]VoguePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which she read and re-read with absorbed delight, from Hak...Rose Macaulay Richard HakluytVoiages, and Discoveries of the English NationPrint: Book
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Unwin with Masefield in a similar way. Alfred Rawlings...Alfred Rawlings C.H. FrogleyVoice from the trees, APrint: Book
1900-1945'I am delighted and honoured by your gift of an inscribed copy [presumably of "Voices of Tomorrow" but see additional comment]. It is with great pleasure that I discover ...Joseph Conrad E.(Edwin) A.(August) BjorkmanVoices of Tomorrow:Critical Studies on the New Spi...Print: Book, Serial / periodical, see additional comment
1800-1849Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading of Herder's ballad collection "Volkslieder".Felicia Hemans Johann Gottfried von HerderVolksliederPrint: Book
1800-1849'I finished your Musaeus ten days ago: it is a nice little book and will do very well. You shall have it at Had[dingto]n whenever you get there, with multifarious advice...Thomas Carlyle Johann Karl August MusaeusVolksmahrchen der DeutschenPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] Ben JonsonVolponePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonVolponePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Mrs Thrale gives some verses of hers about bathing] these Lines are imitated from some Verses in Ben Jonson's Volpone, which are too obscene to be borne, otherwise very...Hester Lynch Thrale Ben JonsonVolponePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonVolpone, or the FoxePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman lent the 'Garveloch' stories by one of Martineau's ...anon Harriet Martineauvolume containing "Garveloch" storiesPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'Samuel Bamford never forgot the sensation of reading a volume of [...] [Robert Burns's] life and writings whilst working as a porter and warehouseman in Manchester'.Samuel Bamford Robert Burnsvolume containing life and writings of BurnsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter to Mrs Ward from Mr Creighton] I have read "Miss Bretherton" with much interest. It was hardly fair on the book to know the plot beforehand, but I found myself c...Mr Creighton Charles Augustin de Sainte-BeuveVoluptePrint: Book
1900-1945'Lovely hot day. Read Oppenheim and played Bridge after lunch.'Gertrude Bell Max von OppenheimVom Mittelmeer zum persischen Golf durch den Haurä...Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Noel CowardVortex, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945"A conversion narrative precisely illustrating ... [the] effects of reading in action is told by Margaret Smith, who sceptically bought a copy of Votes for Women around 1...Margaret Smith Votes for WomenPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being f...Jane Sewell Richard WalterVoyage Around the World by George AnsonPrint: Book


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