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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'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me with, yet I have not had time to read any farther th...Samuel Richardson Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I must write out Johnson's Latin Version of the Messiah from Pope, I obtained the Copy of a Clergyman here, one Mr Graves, who wrote the Spiritual Quixote'. [the Latin v...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[translation into Latin of Pope's 'Messiah']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Os...Samuel Bamford Samuel JohnsonLives of the poetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'There, I flatter myself I have constructed you a Smartish Letter, considering my want of Materials. But like my dear Dr Johnson I beleive [sic] I have dealt more in Noti...Jane Austen Samuel JohnsonLetter to Boswell, 4 July 1774Print: Book
1800-1849'Mary reads greek & Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls.'Mary Godwin Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Mary reads greek and Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls - M. reads the Sorcerer'.Mary Godwin Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons, Sherlock on Death, Watts' world to come, Rollin's "...John Cole Samuel Johnson[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel JohnsonThe Works of the Late Reverend Mr Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'a wet day have finished the life of savage in Johnsons "lives of the poets"'John Clare Samuel JohnsonThe Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through s...Thomas A. Jackson Samuel Johnson[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899J.H. Ewing's diary entry, July 23: 'Johnson's Meditations' Juliana Horatia Ewing Samuel JohnsonPrayers and Meditations [?]Print: Book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the [italics]Spectator[end italics] and [italics]The Ram...Elizabeth Sewell Samuel JohnsonThe RamblerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but want that varied grace, and inextinguishable spirit, ...Thomas Green Samuel JohnsonLondonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but want that varied grace, and inextinguishable spirit, w...Thomas Green Samuel JohnsonVanity of Human WishesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over Johnson's vigorous defence of Shakespear against the charge of violating, whether from neglect or disdain, the Unities of Time and Place in his Dramas...'Thomas Green Samuel JohnsonPreface to ShakespearePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished a cursory perusal of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", with a view to the principles on which his critical decisions are founded...'Thomas Green Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays'Mary Godwin Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical, could have been original periodicals or later collected volumes
1800-1849'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler'Mary Shelley Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes'.Claire Clairmont Samuel JohnsonThe History of Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaPrint: Book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addiso...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book


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