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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
 
1850-1899Look here, you had better get hold of G.C. Lichtenberg’s "Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche": Gottingen, 1794 to 1816 (it was published in numbers see...Robert Louis Stevenson Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupfersti...Print: Book
1700-1799Looked at Ainsworth's dictionary for the derivation of all the Christian names; Joseph is derived from the Hebrew of I will multiply ...Joseph Hunter Robert AinsworthRobert Ainsworth's DictionaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Looked over the notes Mrs. Lefanu had written on Watkin's life of her brother - little in them - chiefly about her father's respectability etc. etc. which, though very in...Thomas Moore John WatkinsMemoirs of the Public and Private Life of the Righ...Print: Book
1800-1849Looked through a volume of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - read an account of Gordon's Portable Gas Lamp, and of the tides of the Mediterranean. At Venice they...John Horrocks Ainsworth The Edinburgh Philosophical JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot.Anne Lister The Bay of BiscayUnknown
1800-1849Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot.Anne Lister Said Eve unto AdamUnknown
1800-1849Looking over the Annals of philosophy for November last. Population of Moscow - effect of bathing in the Red Sea [...]Anne Lister Annals of philosophyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lord Aberdeen to John Wilson Croker, 21 February 1851: 'In reading Lord Holland's book, which I did very cursorily, I was more struck by its dulness than by any other ...Lord Aberdeen Henry Richard Lord HollandForeign ReminiscencesPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood John Dryden Print: Book
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1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood Alexander Pope Print: Book
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1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
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1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood Edward Young Print: Book
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1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood Cowper Print: Book
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1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood Virgil  Print: Book
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1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
1800-1849Lord Durham to Harriet Martineau, 1 January 1834: 'I have read your excellent paper with great pleasure'.Lord Durham Harriet MartineauarticleUnknown
1800-1849Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 22 April 1842 ('Friday Evening'): 'I have just been reading over your admirable letter for a third time, and, after nourishing the med...Lord Francis Jeffrey Mary BerryLetter to Lord Francis JeffreyManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have just finished the last number of the "Edinburgh Revie...Lord Francis Jeffrey The Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have just finished the last number of the "Edinburgh Revie...Lord Francis Jeffrey Thomas Babington Macaulayarticle on Frederick of PrussiaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, [1842]: 'I have been amusing myself lately by looking over the catalogue of the Strawberry Hill collections, and, as you may suppose, ...Lord Francis Jeffrey unknownCatalogue of Strawberry Hill collectionsPrint: Book, catalogue


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