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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
 
1800-1849Monday, 28 January 1828: 'I have read Cooper's Prairie, better I think than his Red Rover in which you never got foot on shore and to understand entirely the incidents...Walter Scott James Fenimore CooperPrairiePrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 4 April 1831: 'Mr. Liddell and Hay Mackenzie left us this morning. Liddell shewd me yesterday a very good old fashioned poem worthy of Pope or Churchill in old...Walter Scott LiddellThe SavoyardUnknown
1800-1849Monday, 5 December 1825: 'Dined at the Royal Society Club where as usual was a pleasant meeting of from 20 to 25. It is a very good institution. We pay two guineas only...Henry Mackenzie Henry Mackenzie'Essay on Dreams' (extract)Unknown
1800-1849Monday, 5 February 1827: 'Dined at the Royal Society club -- above 30 present. Went to the Society in the evening and heard an essay by Peter Tytler on the first encou...Walter Scott Peter Tytler'essay [...] on the first encourager of Greek lear...Unknown
1800-1849Monday, 9 July 1827: 'At eleven [am] went by appointment with Colin Mackenzie to the New Edinr. Academy. In the fifth class, Mr. Mitchell's, we heard Greek of which I...Pupils in fifth class at New Edinburgh Academy Greek textsPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday. 16 February 1829: 'Went to the Royal Society. There Sir William Hamilton read an Essay, the result of some anatomical investigations, which containd a maskd ba...Sir William Hamilton Sir William Hamilton'On the size of the brain and the proportion of it...Unknown
1900-1945Mr D. was in Brummana — an intelligent young schoolmaster to whom teaching came easy; and he introduced me to Rudolph Steiner's books. I worked through them conscie...Freya Stark Rudolph Steiner[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'Dining out frequently [...] as soon as she came home at night, and had read at my requ...Harriet Martineau hymnsPrint: Book
1800-1849Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'She found out our hours of family prayer and always came in most punctually with her f...Harriet Martineau BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Mr Gurney cross-examines victim Thomas Metcalfe in trial of Ann Wright for theft. During examination, reads to Metcalfe and the court an advertisement put in the newspape...  Print: Newspaper
1850-1899Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath - with much virtuous indignation about 'Maga's' perso...Margaret Oliphant Andrew LangLife of LockhartPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: MS chapters of a book
1800-1849Mr Lockhart to John Murray, 24 September 1839: 'Morritt has just finished "Hallam's Literature." He is in raptures with it, and says such a book, forty years ago, wo... Hallam'Literature'Print: Book
1800-1849Mr Longman to John Murray, from 2 Hanover Terrace (1838): 'Can you oblige me by letting me have a third volume of ["]Wilberforce." The fact is, that at in [sic] read...Mr Alexander 'Wilberforce' vol. 3Print: Book
1800-1849Mr Nelson's estate which is advertised for sale in the Hull papers. I likewise saw it in The Times.Robert Sharp The TimesPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Mr Nelson's estate which is advertised for sale in the Hull papers. I likewise saw it in The Times.Robert Sharp The Hull Packet and Humber GazettePrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser on her son (having just described his Chinese nursemaid's indulgent treatment of him): 'He retained his fine appetite till he was five or six years o...Mrs. Mary Beeton[cookery book]Print: Book
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing an incident at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, ...'Rosie' Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight: 'the...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser, wife of the British diplomat Hugh Fraser, recalls acquaintances made whilst en poste with him in China (1874-78): 'Outside of his work Sir Robert Ha...Sir Robert Hart unknown[Light French novels]Print: Book
1850-1899Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember that 'in 1886, when her 10-year-old son was grappling with the classics, she "began seriously to read Greek."'Mrs Humphrey Ward unknown[Greek text/s]Print: Book


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