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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
 
1700-1799'In the evening read Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant", where I find the Turks think the dead are relieved by prayer.'Thomas Turner Joseph Pitton de TournefortVoyage into the LevantPrint: Book
1700-1799'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant" wherein I find the following remark: They breed (says he) the finest goats in the world in the Champaign ...Thomas Turner Joseph Pitton de TournefortVoyage into the LevantPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read M'cleod's Voyage of the Alceste, his account of the Island of Lewchew is an account of the most amiable pagans I ever read of N.B. little or nothing is said of the ...Benjamin Newton John MacleodVoyage of the AlcesteUnknown
1800-1849John Barrow to John Murray, 1 September 1830: 'I sat up last night over Mr. Macleod's narrative till I had nearly got through it, which proves at least that it interes...John Barrow MacleodVoyage of the Alceste to ChinaManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'My chief pleasure at the moment is Darwin's [italics] Voyage of the Beagle [end italics]... it is so fresh, so clear, so solid, so modest, so alive. When I read a book l...Antonia White Charles DarwinVoyage of the Beagle, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading Darwin's [book] I wish I had loved objective things and looked at them when I was a child instead of feeding always on books and fancy'.Antonia White Charles DarwinVoyage of the Beagle, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".'George AnsonVoyage Round the WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"Alexander Somerville, a young farm-worker growing up in the Lammermuir Hills, made his first great journeys without leaving the fields in which he laboured: "'The next ...Alexander Somerville AnsonVoyage Round the WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799'As W[ordsworth] recalled in the Fenwick Note to We are Seven ... his reading of Shelvocke's Voyages inspired the killing of the albatross in C[oleridge]'s Ancient Marine...William Wordsworth George ShelvockeVoyage Round the World by the Way of the Great Sou...Print: Book
1700-1799'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. "Sir, (said he,) there is a great affectation of fin...James Boswell George ForsterVoyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. "Sir, (said he,) there is a great affectation of fin...Samuel Johnson George ForsterVoyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Richard WalterVoyage round the World in the years MDCCXL, I, II,...
1700-1799'[referring to his translation of Lobo's "Voyage to Abyssinia"] Johnson upon this exerted the powers of his mind, though his body was relaxed. He lay in bed with the book...Samuel Johnson Jeronimo LoboVoyage to Abyssinia , APrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 May 1755:] 'I have lately read over with much indignation Fielding's last piece, called his Voyage to Lisbon. That a man, who ...Thomas Edwards Henry FieldingVoyage to LisbonPrint: Book
1700-1799Burney's reading group reading two books - "the last voyage of Captain Cook" and the "letters of Madame de Sevigne". She makes little progress with Cook because of her fa...Frances Burney James CookVoyage to the Pacific OceanPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking turns wit...Jane Sewell AnsonVoyagesPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Edward Fitzgerald to Emily Tennyson [1862], in reponse to request for information on fishing and fishermen (as background for writing of Alfred Tennyson's), and after var...Edward Fitzgerald DampierVoyagesPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junction with what Saussure calls the 'poudingues de Valors...John Ruskin Horace Benedict de SaussureVoyages dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject... On the same auth...Thomas Carlyle Horace Benedict SaussureVoyages dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Today I bought and read Aldous Huxley's essay Vulgarity in Literature. It's a surprisingly powerful thing, one of those treats in reading, of which our modern authors ne...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell Aldous HuxleyVulgarity in LiteraturePrint: Pamphlet


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