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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
 
1850-1899'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the R...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[Italian story]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 December 1813: 'Redde some Italian, and wrote two Sonnets on *** [Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster].'George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[Italian]Unknown
1850-1899'[I] sit through the evening with Denny alone generally, often reading a little Italian'.Margaret Oliphant [Italian]Unknown
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Ches...John Ruskin [unknown][Italian]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'John Ruskin [unknown][Italian]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sun. Reading cursed strike in Wales.'William Thomas unknown unknown[Item on Welsh strikes]Unknown
1700-1799 'I am glad the Adventurers please your Ladiship. You think the Style of some of them uneasy and difficult. The principal Author has been thought an Imitator of Mr Johnso...Samuel Richardson John Hawkesworth[items in Cave's Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life by Mr Mallet" perhaps you have seen. He is not near so good a Man, I fear, as...Samuel Richardson William Mason[items in Dodsley's Miscellanies]Print: Book
'C.H. Rolph... picked up [a message that "well-trained impis could outwit upper-class English duffers"] from S. Clarke Hook's stories of Jack, Sam and Pete in the Boys' F...C.H. Rolph S. Clarke Hook[Jack, Sam and Pete stories]Print: Book
1850-1899[After a break in the letter:] 'There I had the wisdom to stop and look over Japanese picture books until lunch time.' Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[Japanese picture books]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern one with whom I feel in sympathy and he was condemne...Antonia White George Tyrrell[Jesuit writings]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles'George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Jewish chronicles]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Physical Basis - and dear Journal of our Seaside Work'George Eliot [pseud] [journal by either Eliot or G.H. Lewes]Manuscript: Unknown, journal
1800-1849'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India''Thomas Medwin Thomas Medwin[journal of time in India]Manuscript: diary
1850-1899'Wrote memories and lived with him all day. Read in his diary 1874 - "Wrote verses to Polly - Wrote verses on Polly".'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[journal, 1874]Manuscript: Unknown, journal
1900-1945Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would have to be clipped to march in time with his.'Virginia Woolf Clive Bell[journalism] Unknown
1700-1799'You need not be at all afraid that I should think your journal an odd composition. I am so much charmed with it that I long for the second part, and want to see the char...Louisa, Lady Stuart Caroline Dawson[journal]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'From one of his Journals I transcribed what follows : "At church, Oct.—65. " To avoid all singularity; [italics] Bonaventura [end italics] " To come in before ser...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[journal]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have been reading over an old journal book. Ah saith my soul, how has the loving kindness and tender mercy of the Almighty been manifested to me'Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth Fry[Journal]Manuscript: Codex
1800-1849'One of the last books I have laid hands on is Lieutenant Burnes's (afterwards Sir Alexander Burnes) "Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus". And, not to speak ...John Mitchel Sir Alexander Burnes[Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus]Print: Book


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