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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'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareWinter's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareWinter's TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to a reading of 'The Winter's Tale'. The production was under the joint management of Mrs Robson & R.B. Graham. The play had been 'cu...Members of XII Book ClubWilliam ShakespeareWinter's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'A Dirge- Burn' 'The sweeping blast, the sky o'ercast [transcribes alll of poem from l.10.]'B.A.T. Herbert Robert BurnsWinter: A DirgeUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'In the second chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon & at the 23rd verse are these words: For GOD created ...Robert Southey Wisdom of Solomon 2:23Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelWissenschaft der LogikPrint: Book
1800-1849'I ought to have written long ago to thank you, both for Percy & myself for your welcome Volume. It tries hard to be as great a favourite as the first - and "Wit and Humo...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntWit and HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'In looking over my note I find that I have not half said all I think of the admirable manner you treat the subject of your book in the preface. Did you ever read any of ...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntWit and HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.' Claire Clairmont Francis Beaumont and John FletcherWit at Several WeaponsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.' Claire Clairmont Francis Beaumont and John FletcherWit Without MoneyPrint: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: "Christabel", "Lotus Eaters" Writers: Shaw, Shakesp...Hilary Spalding John BuchanWitch WoodPrint: Book
1850-1899'We even sat on deck though the ship rolled too much to allow of our having up deck chairs. Read Rose's "Greek War" lent me by Sir W.S. [Smith]; "Life of Nicholson" the d...Gertrude Bell William Kinneard RoseWith the Greeks in ThessalyPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was through the reading of his narrative poem, "Within and Without" (published in 1855, but written a few years earlier), that their acquaintance began. She wrote to ...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron George MacdonaldWithin and WithoutPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lady Byron was to [George] MacDonald the protectress, the adviser, and once at least the extremely rigorous critic. 'It was through the reading of his narrative poem,...Anne Isabella Lady Noel Byron George MacDonaldWithin and WithoutPrint: Book
1900-1945'Long before I heard of Freud I was interested in reading accounts of first memories and impressions. My own experience had taught me that the roots of life were there bu...Margaret PhillipsWithin the City WallUnknown
1800-1849'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.'John Ruskin [unknown]WitnessPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone, regarding his projected article about "Robert Elsmere"] If you do speak of him [T.H. Green], will you look at his two Lay Sermons, of...Mary Augusta Ward T.H. GreenWitness of God and Faith, The: Two Lay SermonsPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 Auguust: 'My goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the meadow trees, flinging about [...] I read such a white dimity rice puddingy chapter of Mrs Gaskel...Virginia Woolf Elizabeth GaskellWives and DaughtersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I never buy books, I only read the "Wizard".' WizardPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gottfried Christian BohnWohlerfahrner KaufmannPrint: Book


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