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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'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and you think yourselves very great men. Hume would never...Samuel Johnson Voltaire[books of history]Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson David Dalrymple[books of history]Print: Book
'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like to see a translation of it in poetical prose like t...Allan Ramsay [books of Job and Ruth]Print: Book
1900-1945'Then came those old-fashioned books of natural history that dealt courageously with The Universe, illustrating it with quaint engravings of strange rock formations in th...Eric Shipton unknown[books of natural history]Print: Book
1700-1799'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnson was often very busy. One day Mr Wise read to us a ...Samuel Johnson [unknown][books of Northern literature]Print: Book
1800-1849"Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was of rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly...John Cole [books of topography and travel]Print: Book
1700-1799'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will read them through? A man had better work his way be...Samuel Johnson [books of Voyages to the South Seas]Print: Book
1700-1799'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will read them through? A man had better work his way be...James Boswell [books of Voyages to the South Seas]Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] Read the books about Lancashire life a hundred years ago, and see if they have not improved - if they are not less brutal, less eart...Mary Augusta Ward [books on 18th century Lancashire life]Print: Book
1600-1699'[at Christmas, Easter and on other holidays, he] 'would be at Work or Study, whilst my Fellow-servants were abroad taking their Pleasure. I was then upon Astrolgy [sic],...Thomas Tryon [unknown][books on astrology]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[books on Astronomical Geography]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees...Norman Nicholson [unknown][books on birds, animals, snakes, trees]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading up the Camisards and shall go a walk in the scene of their wars, the Hautes Cévennes.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Books on Camisards]Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		I have to attend to the direction of the House, the table &c, as well as literary studies; to assist in entertaining company in the parlour; and give directions to the se...Ellen Weeton [books on carving]Print: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott...Wilfred Owen [books on history, classics and botany]Print: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - greek - Irish books'Mary Shelley [unknown][books on Ireland]Print: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also read the book reviews in "John O' London's". Quite of... [unknown][books on James IV]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [...] I read a good deal of History too'.Harriet Martineau unknown[Books on logic]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been r...George Eliot [pseud] unknown[books on medieval Greece]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[letter to H.M. esq] my poor brains have been of late so completely fused in the furnace of metaphysic, that they have become a complete [italics] calx [end italics]. I ...Elizabeth Hamilton [books on metaphysics]Print: Book


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