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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
 
1850-1899'Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth seeks your acquaintance & society [because] he has a novel, - partly read to Mrs Nicholls the last time she was at Gawthrop, - partly to me, - [i...Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth Sir J.P.K. ShuttleworthScarsworthPrint: Book
1700-1799'Perused, with delight and admiration, Mackintosh's "Preliminary Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations"...'Thomas Green Sir James MackintoshA discourse on the study of the law of nature, and...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read Mackinosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae". His style and manner in the Piece are magnificent, but uniformly cumbrous, and occasionally coarse...'Thomas Green Sir James MackintoshVindiciae GallicaePrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 10 March 1827: 'About three o'clock I got to a meeting of the Bannatyne club [...] Thomson is superintending a capital edition of Sir James Melville's Memoir...Walter Scott Sir James MelvilleMemoirsUnknown
1800-1849Friday, 8 June 1827: 'I was fatigued and sleepy when I go[t] home [from business meetings] and nodded, I think, over Sir James Melville's Memoirs.'Walter Scott Sir James MelvilleMemoirsUnknown
1900-1945Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell,...Joan Evans Sir James George FrazerThe Golden BoughPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an hour or two - we reading of a merry book against the ...Samuel Pepys Sir John BirkenheadCabala, or An impartial account of the non-conform...Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an hour or two - we reading of a merry book against the ...Henry Moore Sir John BirkenheadCabala, or An impartial account of the non-conform...Print: Book
1700-1799'Began Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland"; and read the two introductory sections, containing a masterly review of our political affairs...'Thomas Green Sir John DalrympleMemoirs of Great Britain and IrelandPrint: Book
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: William Masters: "some time on the 26th of December, we received a handbill from Sir John Fielding, describing this wat...William Masters Sir John Fielding Print: Handbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: John Brooks: "the handbill came from Sir John Fielding's on the 26th of December; I saw it in the shop between three an...John Brooks Sir John Fielding Print: Handbill
1850-1899'The note by my father, that originally headed his blank verse translation from the Iliad beginning 'He ceased, and sea-like roar'd the Trojan host, 'ran: "Some, an...Alfred Tennyson Sir John Herschel'Book I. of the Iliad translated in the Hexameter ...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned aside into Leslie's conics - & went thro' it, in search ...Thomas Carlyle Sir John LeslieElements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis, and Pl...Print: Book
1800-1849'With regard to the division of the circle into 360 parts,- I think it cannot be done by elementary Geometry - at least if M. Gauss is right - who (Leslie tells us) has d...Thomas Carlyle Sir John LeslieElements of GeometryPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerable surprise - the bold avowall of his sentiments on ...Thomas Carlyle Sir John Leslie [or Playfair?]review of Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les pr...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Sir Alexander Burnes to John Murray, 'On the Nile,' 30 March 1835: 'The Quarterly is lying before me [...] I have been reperusing the very article which treats of Ma...Sir Alexander Burnes Sir John MacNeill'England, France, Russia, and Turkey'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I began Sir John Mo[o]res letters again and am very much struck if the account is true with the bad management there seems to have been at first setting out. I cannot a...Lady Caroline Lamb Sir John MooreA Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir John PringleObservations on the Diseases of the ArmyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quit...Benjamin Newton Sir John SinclairThe Code of AgriculturePrint: Book
1600-1699'After dinner I down to Woolwich with a galley, and then to Deptford and so home, all the way reading Sir J Suck[l]ings "Aglaura", which methinks is but a mean play - not...Samuel Pepys Sir John SucklingsAglauraPrint: Book


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