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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
 
1900-1945‘Many thanks for your letter which greeted me on our weekly return to our old farmhouse behind the lines … I’m sending herewith—it strikes me it may interest you—a co...Charles Hamilton Sorley Thomas à KempisDe imitatione ChristiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas AbbtiVermischte WerkePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas AdamPrivate Thoughts on ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849‘...it is very cruel in people whom I never injured to publish my father’s natural complaints of my delinquencies to the million whom they concern not - still worse to ...Hartley Coleridge Thomas AllsopLetters, Conversations and Recollections of Samuel...Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas AmoryThe Life of John BunclePrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas AmoryThe Life of John Buncle, EsqPrint: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 14 August 1811: 'I have read nothing since I wrote to you except bits here and there and the Novel of John Bunkle - but I am goi...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas AmoryThe Life of John BunclePrint: Book
1700-1799'It was in one of those cheerful moods that I one day took up The Life of John Buncle; and it is impossible for my friend to imagine with what eagerness and pleasure I re...James Lackington Thomas AmoryThe life of John BunclePrint: Book
1850-1899?I bought the other day a copy of Aquinas & find him very good reading. Only to understand him one ought obviously to read a whole mass of contemporary stuff wh. would sw...Leslie Stephen Thomas Aquinas Print: Book
1900-1945[In bed recovering from gastro-enteritis] 'I read "Crowthers" all day, and loved it.'Hilary Spalding Thomas ArmstrongCrowthers of BankdamPrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from Mrs Ward to Bishop Creighton, after her father's death] My father's was a rare and [italics] hidden [end italics] nature. Among his papers that have now com...Mary Augusta Ward Thomas Arnold[private papers]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Some of the ancient philosophers held, that all deviations from right reason were madness; and whoever wishes to see the opinions both of ancients and moderns upon this ...James Boswell Thomas ArnoldObservations on InsanityPrint: Book
1800-1849'short as all his are, & excellent as almost all are'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas ArnoldSermon on the text 'except ye eat the flesh of the...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'pithy & good. He is sure never to offend, usually to instruct & amend'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas ArnoldSermon on the Three Comings of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read loud… I like better & better, it is so clever & so practical'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas ArnoldSermon on Ceasar's HouseholdPrint: Book
1800-1849'for which I coin a word which will speak to myself, "epochable"'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas Arnold Print: Book
1800-1849'very striking; it has his peculiar view of the identity of Church & Nation, & is very much against living exclusively in a religious church'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas ArnoldunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 21 April 1808: 'In the evening began reading Ashe's "Travels in America", in the north-western settlements, behind the United States.'Mary Berry Thomas AsheTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 22 April 1808: 'In the evening Ashe's Travels [in America] again. They are, I think, very entertaining in spite of an abominable style, which aims a...Mary Berry Thomas AsheTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 24 April 1808: 'In the evening, after dinner, I read aloud the sketch of my preface [to the letters of Mme du Deffand], and finished the evening with...Mary Berry Thomas AsheTravels in AmericaPrint: Book


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