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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
 
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William W...Virginia Woolf Gabriel HarveyWorksPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, 2 July 1909: 'Something exciting is coming on [...] The Minister for Foreign Affairs has read the works of your humble servant, has ...Sir Edward Grey E. M. ForsterworksPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's Sermons, Blairs Sermons, 5vols. Scott's Christian Li...James Lackington Flavius JosephusWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's Sermons, Blairs Sermons, 5vols. Scott's Christian Li...James Lackington Hannah MoreWorksPrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to 'Mr Malan', 14 November 1883: 'I can assure you I am innocent as far as I am aware of knowing one line of Statius; and of Ovid's "Epicedion" I never...Alfred Tennyson Ovid worksPrint: Book
1900-1945"The marginal lines and notes are copied from Macaulay's Bipontine edition They are of high interest NB The notes in pencil are my notes, of difficult interpretations, to...George Otto Trevelyan Caius Velleius PaterculusWorksPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes; multiple dates of reading , incl. "Sept 15 1915 Wallington"; "July 3 1922 A glorious winter"; "Finished Herodotus, all of him, once again this day Sept....George Otto Trevelyan Herodotus WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849'The writings of this remarkable man [Jeremy Bentham] were now beginning to tell upon the thinking portion of young public men and lawyers [...] Grote caught the infectio...George Grote Jeremy BenthamworksPrint: Book
1800-1849'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the favourite pursuits of George Grote. In the winter of 1829, a small group of studen...George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and others WhatelyworksPrint: Book
1700-1799'Besides studying Greek and Latin, Gifford learnt French and Spanish while at Oxford. He went through Moliere's plays twice and Voltaire's works once.'William Gifford Voltaire worksPrint: Book
1800-1849Maria Graham to John Murray, 2 November 1817: 'Pray what is the 4th Canto of "Childe Harold" doing? and where is Lord Byron? You know my admiration for his works, and ...Maria Graham George Gordon Lord ByronworksPrint: Book
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818: 'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been reading Walter Scott's edition of Swift, which, an...George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales Jonathan Swiftworks (including correspondence)Print: Book
1850-1899"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found impossible to...Edmund Gosse Robert SoutheyWorks (poetical?)Print: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley HesiodWorks and DaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic]with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...Elizabeth Barrett works attributed to PlatoPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociolo...Viscountess Rhondda works in anthropologyPrint: Unknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 November 1765:] 'Abp. Leighton's works are great favourites with me at present. There is, I think, the best exposition of the...Catherine Talbot Robert LeightonWorks including 'Exposition of the Lord's Prayer'Print: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amadee de Ripert-Monclar, 30 July 1835: 'I have you to thank [...] for some very clever books by the Marquis de Fortia which I have rea...Robert Browning Agricole Fortia d'Urbanworks including Dissertation sur le Passage du Rho...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles ...Elizabeth Barrett Plato Works including Dissertation sur le Passage du Rho...Print: Book
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his Tusculan villa, i.e. at his father's house in Saffron...Gabriel Harvey Cicero Works including On FriendshipPrint: Book


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