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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'Took the "Gent. Mag." to the Library, & brought Frederick Morton Eden's "State of the Poor"; he gives an account of the state of the poor in most of the large parishes i...Joseph Hunter Sir Frederick Morton EdenThe State of the Poor; or an History of the LabourPrint: Book
1600-1699'Here was mighty good discourse, as there is alway; and among other things, my Lord Crew did turn to a place in the "Life of Sir Ph. Sidny", wrote by Sir Fulke Grevill,...Lord Crew Sir Fulke GrevilleLife of the renowned Sir Phillip SidneyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir George ColebrookeSix Letters on IntolerancePrint: Book
1800-1849Lord Mahon to John Murray, 11 December 1836: 'I am much obliged to you for the early copy of the [Quarterly] Review which I am reading with great pleasure. The artic...Lord Mahon Sir George Murray'article on Napier'Print: Serial / periodical, 'early copy'
1700-1799'Took the 1st vol of Staunton to the library [borrowed on 7 Sept], & brought Townson's "Travels" ... The 1st part of Staunton brings the embassador into the Yellow Sea, s...Joseph Hunter Sir George Leonard StauntonAn Authentic Account from the King of Great Britai...Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 April 1907: 'Today my head is whirring with slight fever. Since I wrote that I have for the first time read The Competition Wallah...Leonard Woolf Sir George Otto TrevelyanThe Competition WallahPrint: Book
1800-1849'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresse...Jane Austen Sir George Steuart MackenzieTravels in IcelandPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 23 December 1825: 'Sir Gilbert [the first Earl Minto] was indeed a man among a thousand. I knew him very intimately at the beginning of the century [...] He ...Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl MintopoemsUnknown
1800-1849'I am happy that you think with me about waltzing. Have you seen Sir H. Englefield's verses? They appear to me perfect as far as touching forcibly the proper points. They...Sir William Elford Sir H. EnglefieldVerses on WaltzingPrint: Book
1700-1799'The gum-trees were like those in the last bay, both in leaf and in producing a very small proportion of gum; on the branches of them and other trees were large ants' nes...Joseph Banks Sir Hans SloaneHistory of JamaicaPrint: Book
1800-1849From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were children at Paris was the arrival of a huge parcel, w...Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray Sir Henry ColeThe Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Bo...Print: Book
1800-1849From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were children at Paris was the arrival of a huge parcel, whic...Anne Isabella Thackeray Sir Henry ColeThe Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Bo...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Henry Vane the YoungerA Healing Question Propounded and ResolvedPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Henry Wotton, 'On the Death of Sr Albertus Morton.' Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Henry WottonOn the Death of Sr Albertus MortonUnknown
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Henry Wotton, 'Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Henry WottonUpon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset ...Unknown
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Henry Wotton, 'The Character of a Happy Life'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Henry WottonThe Character of a Happy LifeUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Henry George GreyCorrected Report of the Speech of Viscount HowickPrint: Book
1800-1849Arabella Graham-Clarke to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 14 Deecmber 1830: 'Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] read the last work of Sir Humphrey Davey "Consolation in travail" It is ...Elizabeth Barrett Sir Humphrey DavyConsolation in TravailPrint: Book
1800-1849'It occurred to me; much about the same time that it would be proper to study Stewart's Essays, Berkel[e]y's principes of knowledge, Rumfords Essays, Newton ['s] Institut...Thomas Carlyle Sir Isaac NewtonInstitutesPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter from Lucy Aikin to her niece Sue, dated Nov.17, 18..?: Aikin has been reading Mackintosh, and comments on the suitability of philosophical reading for women.Lucy Aikin Sir J. Mackintosh[a text on ethical philosophy]Print: Book


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