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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, 9 March 1814: 'I dined with Madame de Stael; nobody but Campbell the poet, Rocca, and her own daughter [...] After dinner, Campbell read to us a disc...Thomas Campbell Thomas Campbelldiscourse on English poetry and poetsUnknown
1800-1849'Lines written to the Memory of Sir G Campbell' 'To Him whose loyal, brave, and gentle heart/...'Carey/Maingay groupThomas CampbellLines Inscribed on the Monument Lately... ErectedPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Battle of Hohenlinden' 'On Linden when the Sun was low/...'Carey/Maingay groupThomas Campbell'Hohenlinden' OR [The Pleasures of Hope]Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Lines by Mrs Siddons Say what's the brightest wreath of fame, ... >From Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons Dec 1834'Bowly groupThomas CampbellLife of Mrs SiddonsUnknown
1850-1899'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite...Edwin Muir Thomas CampbellLord Ullin's DaughterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope". Parts of this Poem are animated and fine...'Thomas Green Thomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'Did I tell you I read "Campbell?s Pleasures of Hope" at Wells and was charmed and elevated beyond measure ?'Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Thomas CampbellPleasures of hopePrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Sept. 9th. Read Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland written as it is said by one Campbell. 'Sunday Sept. 10th. Read Survey of the South of Irela...Claire Clairmont Thomas CampbellA Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in...Print: Book
1800-1849'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, a...Sarah Harriet Burney Thomas CampbellLife of Mrs SiddonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Dr Thomas Campbell, who dined with Johnson on 3 April 1775] has since published "A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland," a very entertaining book, which has, h...James Boswell Thomas CampbellPhilosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a...Print: Book
1900-1945'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.John Betjeman Thomas Campbell Print: Book
1800-1849'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbours and tenants, with a friendly finger ready to stick...Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella MilbankeThomas Campbell Print: Book
1800-1849'To tea at my friend Cape's and looked over his mss.'John Cole Thomas Cape[private writing]Manuscript: Sheet, mss
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Thomas Carey, 'On his Mistress going to Sea'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Thomas CareyOn his mistress going to seaUnknown
1900-1945'Despising his job in a Birmingham factory, V.W. Garratt surrounded his workbench with a barricade of boxes, set up a small mirror to provide early warning of the foreman...V.W. Garratt Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Robert Blatchford] found Sartor Resartus intimidating: "after reading the famous meditaton on the sleeping city, I threw the book across the room. I felt I should never...Robert Blatchford Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a seaman in the mid-1870s, Ben Tillett had not yet been exposed to revolutionary literature, "But I discovered Thomas Carlyle and was held spellbound by the dark fury...Ben Tillett Thomas Carlyle Print: Unknown
1850-1899'As a young South Wales miner, Edmund Stonelake, who had never heard of the French Revolution, asked a bookseller for something on the subject and was sold Carlyle. At fi...Edmund Stonelake Thomas Carlyle Print: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'Keir Hardie remembered that a "real turning point" of his life was his discovery of Sartor Resartus at age sixteen or seventeen. He had to read it through three times be...James Keir Hardie Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1800-1849'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. Bu...Mary Smith Thomas Carlyle Print: Book


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