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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
 
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Tuesday, October 20th. 'Rose at 6. Studied some more of Turgot's Dissertation, whic...George Grote Turgot[Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoiesPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Having passed a sleepless night I did not rise until 1/2 past 7. Read some more of ...George Grote Turgot[Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoiesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dante Alighieri[Divina Commedia]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so spent the whole morning with W. Hewer, he taking little notes in short-hand, while I hired a clerk to read to me about twelve or more several rolls which I did ca... [unknown][documents on the history of the Navy]Manuscript: Roll
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time/ Is sharpen'ed from its hi...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [George Gordon, Lord] [Byron][Don Juan - Canto the Third]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the pas...George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[draft of Life of Goethe]Manuscript: Unknown, MS of Lewes' book
1600-1699'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'Samuel Pepys [unknown][draft of the victualler's contract]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'Sir William Penn [unknown][draft of the victualler's contract]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'Lord Brouncker [unknown][draft of the victualler's contract]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read with Harry in the Evening, then played a long game of Bezique with Sissy'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][drama?]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening Harry & I did some Readings. It was a great night for Harry & he did'ent go to bed till after ten o'clock.'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][drama?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Harry & I then read a dialogue & this brought the time right for the theatre, where Telo took Mrs Castieau, the girls & Harry'Harry Castieau [unknown][drama?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Miss Edgeworth's dramas'.George Crabbe Maria Edgeworth[Dramas]Print: Book
1850-1899'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I read Walt Whitman's last book aloud to Alice, thus est...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][dramatists' works]Print: Book
1850-1899'After tea this evening I read some dramatic pieces with Harry & played a couple of games of Bezique with Mamma. Smoked several pipes & then went to bed'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][drama]Print: Book
1900-1945'Cape has seen the first 4 chapters [of what Stella calls 'Towards Tomorrow']. He finds them full of charm but says he could not make a better offer than Gollancz's, nor ...Ford Madox Ford[early chapters of what would become 'It was the N...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][early Methodist magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'Norman Nicholson H.G. Wells[early novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'[At his parents' house] We saw photos of Ezra as a baby and his first poems in an Idaho paper and no end of things that wd make poor Ezra squirm'.Ford Madox Ford Ezra Pound[early poems]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detective stories, I like Naomi Jacobs' early ones. I read ...Naomi Jacobs[early works]Print: Book


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