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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
 
1850-1899Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics]: 'Miss Sewell's arduous life-wo...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknown['books of note']Print: Book
1850-1899'Surviving copies of his classics books - which contain copious and meticulous annotations concerning syntax and grammar - and his dazzling success in classical examinati...Oscar Wilde ['classics books']Print: Book
1700-1799Lay till near 11. Mary read 'cyrus', I winding silk.Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael Ramsay['Cyrus'] OR Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c...Rudolph Lehmann ['great Victorians' - presumably novelists]Print: Book
1800-1849I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress.Anne Lutton ['Greek Grammar']Print: Book
1900-1945'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'.Antonia White [unknown]['journals of poets']Print: Book
1800-1849'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Mag...James Hogg ['Literary Gossip' articles in Newcastle Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'.Antonia White [unknown]['lives of painters']Print: Book
1800-1849After breakfast...dawdling awaythe morning in looking over medical Mss, weighing out powders [...].Anne Lister ['Medical Mss']Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an ...Mary Shelley William Godwin['Miscellanies']Print: Book
1800-1849As I grew up, I still read with avidity all I could lay my hands on, and was not at all fastidious. Unfortunately I got novels, plays etc and read them privately... My ...Anne Lutton ['novels']Print: Book
1800-1849'Read in library; for first time, in Swift's "Ode to Athenian Society". Not in good state to judge, but thought it bit heavy, though not worse perhaps than odes generally...William Windham Jonathan Swift['Ode to Athenian Society']Print: Unknown
'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot" with "some appreciation of style", enough to recog...George Acorn ['Penny Bloods']Print: Book
1800-1849'Found printed paper from Basil Montagu and sat up writing notes to detect its sophistry.'William Windham Basil Montagu['Printed Paper'] or [perhaps] Enquiries and obser...Unknown
1800-1849'Went on with Basil Montagu, a most shallow reasoner'William Windham Basil Montagu['Printed Paper'] or [perhaps] Enquiries and obser...Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		Religion is such a consolation to a drooping spirit,that I could wish thou wouldest seek for comfort and cheerfulness in it; for God never forsakes those who turn to him....Ellen Weeton ['Psalms']Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes of Mrs Grant's American Lady, which Southey lent to ...Dorothy Wordsworth ['readings with the Bairns']Unknown
1800-1849Never did any poor creature labour with morediligence than I did to obtain the most accurate knowledge of the language. I succeeded, read all the Roman classics, and fast...Anne Lutton ['Roman Classics']Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'Forgive egotism if I mention one circumstance which happened above twelve years ago. I was struck with t...Robert Southey anon['sixpenny history of England']Print: Book
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polish...Ernest E. Unwin L.P. Jacks['Snarley Bob' tales]Print: Book


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