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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
 
1800-1849'My excellent mother had a fair education - at all events she could read and write fairly well - and she was often asked to read and write letters for neighbours who coul...Sarah Tinsley [letters]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799' I send you Addington's Letters. I find the melancholy ones the most interesting - There is a grossness in the raptures from which I turn...'Mary Wollstonecraft Addington[Letters]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t...George Eliot and G.H. LewesSydney Smith[Letters]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'George Eliot Francesco Petrarch[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'George Eliot [pseud] Francesco Filelfo[Letters]Print: Book
1700-1799?"She has heard a great deal of you, ? & has seen some of your Letters" . . . I am [ital] very [ital] much concerned, nay & [ital] hurt & half angry [ital] that this lady...Anne Leigh Frances Burney[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Seward had been reading a five-volume edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters, and she had confessed her irritation with Lady Mary's avowed contempt for Pope' [s...Anna Seward Mary Wortley Montagu[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849St John's Antigua, Jany 17 1828 My Dear Fanny I have been amusing myself almost all morning in perusing several of your old letters in many of which you accuse me of n...John Page [letters]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I spent the whole afternoon reading some of Mde. de Sevigne's letters'Harriet Wynne Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read Mde. de Sevigne until I was quite tired'.Harriet Wynne Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have now read three volumes of Madame de Sevigne - with a conviction that her letters are very much overpraised. Mr Thomas Grenville says he has made seven vigorous at...Sydney Smith Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'Percy Bysshe Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters'Percy Bysshe Shelley Pliny[letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'.Mary Godwin Quintus Curtius Rufus[letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Pliny[letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading Galiani's correspondence. I had no conception that Abbes and ladies wrote to each other in such a style and feel ashamed of my Simplicity and innocen...Sydney Smith Ferdinando Galiani[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read Galiani's letters, but they are so utterly insignificant, that there is nothing more to be said of them than that they are not worth speaking about. I scarce...Sydney Smith Ferdinando Galiani[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's letters, wherever you can find them; - the best wit ever published in the shape of letters'.Sydney Smith Horace Walpole[Letters]Print: Book


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