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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
 
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton S.J. Alvaro SemedoThe History of ChinaPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding S.P.B. MaisWriting of English, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Wallenstein and Schwann in the evenings'.George Eliot and G.H. LewesS.T. ColeridgeWallensteinPrint: Book
1900-1945'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play again. I cannot expertly criticize the critical book b...Arnold Bennett S.T. ColeridgeShakesperian Criticism (?)Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 11 July, 1797: 'Cottle brought with him the new edition of Coleridges poems, they are dedicated to his brothe[MS torn] George, in one of the m...Robert Southey S.T. ColeridgePoems, by S. T. Coleridge, Second Edition. To Whic...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Coleridge has written a tragedy — by request of Sheridan. it is uncommonly fine — tho every charact...Robert Southey S.T. ColeridgeOsorioUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 6 October 1797: 'Coleridge has so far compleated his tragedy that he has only the task of correcting it to perform. he passed thro Bath & rea...Samuel Taylor Coleridge S.T. ColeridgeOsorioManuscript: Unknown
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'Tuesday 14th December. ?Cheap Jack Zita? (Baring Gould)'. Gerald Moore Sabine Baring-GouldCheap Jack ZitaPrint: 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...Henry Marriage Wallis Sabine Baring-GouldJohn HerringPrint: 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...Mary Pollard Sabine Baring-GouldBroom Squire, ThePrint: 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...Francis Pollard Sabine Baring-GouldStrange Survivals and SuperstitionsPrint: 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
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...Henry Marriage Wallis Sabine Baring-Gould Print: 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...Elizabeth Ann Smith Sabine Baring-Gould Print: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'At the end of Sacchi de Platina's "Hystoria de Vitis pontificum" (c.1505) [Gabriel] Harvey adds his index of Popes and page references.'Gabriel Harvey Sacchi de PlatinaHystoria de Vitis pontificumPrint: Book
1900-1945'The more I read the book, the more wonderful it seems to me. It is really a great book. Arthur says, and I more than agree with him, that the passage about Pyramus and T...Edith Sitwell Sacheverall SitwellAll Summer in a Day: An Autobiographical FantasiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I comforted myself last night when I couldn't sleep, by reading those truly wonderful passages about the shells and sea -nymphs in Sacred and Profane Love. What miraculo...Edith Sitwell Sacheverall SitwellSacred and Profane LovePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] May 12-24th [...] Early in the morning I read Madame Roland [...] 'Wednesday May 13th.-25th [...] Finish the Memoirs of Madame Roland.'Claire Clairmont Saint Albin Berville and Jean Francois BarriereMemoires de Madame RolandPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Saint Teresa WorksPrint: Book


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