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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
 
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1808: 'In the evening Mrs. D[?amer], and [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America].'Mary Berry Thomas AsheTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 1 May 1808: 'In the evening, [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America] as usual.'Mary Berry Thomas AsheTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 6 May 1808: 'Mrs D[?amer] and I finished [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America].'Mary Berry and [?Anne Damer]Thomas AsheTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Johnson to Thomas Astle] Your notes on Alfred appear to me very judicious and accurate, but they are too few. Many things familiar to you, are unknown to me...Samuel Johnson Thomas Astle[notes on the will of King Alfred]Print: Book
1700-1799'Read Balguy's "Discourses". They are all masterly; but the first four, and the 8th, tower above the rest in excellence...'Thomas Green Thomas BalguyDiscourses on various subjectsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas BatemanA Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous DiseasesPrint: Book
1600-1699'...and so took boat again and got to London before them. All the way, coming and going, reading in "The Wallflower" with great pleasure.'Samuel Pepys Thomas BaylyHerba Parietis or The wall-flower, as it grew out ...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 9 April, 1797: 'I have seen Bayntons Book. it is vilely written. but the theory seems good, & the practise appears to have been successfu...Robert Southey Thomas BayntonDescriptive Account of a New Method of Treating Ol...Print: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] did not read it [Thomas Beddoes, Domiciliary Verses] until it was reprinted in the Annual Anthology (1799). [Joseph] Cottle sent W[ordsworth] a copy ... in...William Wordsworth Thomas BeddoesDomiciliary VersesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the two copies, especially the grand format, of Crane's biography. Both sizes are very attractively got up. I very well like your fount and the spacing o...Joseph Conrad Thomas BeerStephen Crane: A Study in American Letters with an...Print: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'In compliance with your request and my own wishes, I have been and am reading with much attention Mr. Wilberforce's book, a...Mary Berry Thomas BelshamA Review of Mr. Wilberforce's Practical View of th...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all life, or almost alive; they are admirably true to nat...John Cole Thomas BenickHistory of British BirdsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'It was here, at No. 31, that I discovered Bewick, one afternoon while Aunt Etty was having her rest. I remember lying on the sofa between the dining-room windows with th...Gwen Raverat Thomas Bewick Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1843: 'I have seen Bewick only in extracts -- therefore you are justified in reproaching my ignorance --- and I d...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas BewickThe History of British Birds (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849Arthur Tennyson on his brother Alfred's childhood reading: 'I remember his tremendous excitement when he got hold of Bewick for the first time: how he paced up and dow...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Bewick Print: Book
1700-1799'Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties'.Samuel Johnson Thomas Birch[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'He talked of Mr. Blacklock's poetry, so far as it was descriptive of visible objects; and observed, that "as its author had the misfortune to be blind, we may be absolut...Samuel Johnson Thomas Blacklock[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of Shelley's reading in early 1816. Later in the year t...Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas BlackwellMemoirs of the Court of AugustusPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'[In Gabriel Harvey's methods of annotation] Succinct captions of one or two words placed in the margin often summarize a fairly lengthy textual discussion, e.g., in Thom...Gabriel Harvey Thomas BlundevillThe foure chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemansh...Print: Book
1900-1945 It is not an article at all. [‘Adrien van de Venne’ in Studies (Dublin), June 1923] It is a romance, a drama, an epic; and puts you in the grande lignée des collectionn...Arnold Bennett Thomas BodkinAdrien van de VennePrint: Serial / periodical


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