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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
 
1700-1799' I would advise you to read Mrs R's "Italian" in your own chamber, not to lose the picturesque images with which it abounds.'Mary Wollstonecraft Anne RadcliffeItalian, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
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
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P...Robert Southey Pythagoras Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P...Robert Southey Aristotleon LogicPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P...Robert Southey PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'I copied these four lines from the hospital at Reading {Aye whose hours exempt from sorrow flow {Beh...Robert Southey anon[lines at the Hospital in Reading]Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Marginalia]: two ms notes, one opp. to: "Joannes Marshall scripsit hunc librum./ Incepi scribere hunc librum duodecimo die Aprilis 1729. Finivi librum nonodecimo die Jun...David Marshall Andrew Birnie of SalineA compend or abreviat of the most important ordina...Print: Book
1700-1799'I was reading Derham's Astro, not his Astro, his Physico Theology; and can hardly help laughing when I see these simple Philosophers praising God Almighty for making the...Hester Lynch Thrale William DerhamPhysico-Theology, or, A Demonstration of the Being...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr James brought me some pretty Verses about Melancholy written by a Boy; Mr James tasting Verses in praise of Melancholy seems odd enough, as he is a merry Mortal, and ...Hester Lynch Thrale 'To Melancholy'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Doctor Harrington told Seward, who told me; that Swift had taken his Tale of a Tub from Pallavicini upon Divorces, I always thought it was borrowed from "les trois Annea...Hester Lynch Thrale Jonathan SwiftTale of a Tub, APrint: Book
1700-1799'I must write out Johnson's Latin Version of the Messiah from Pope, I obtained the Copy of a Clergyman here, one Mr Graves, who wrote the Spiritual Quixote'. [the Latin v...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[translation into Latin of Pope's 'Messiah']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was reading to the Girls to day More's Acct of The King of Prussia's Severity to his favourite Valet who unable to endure it, shot himself' [there follows a long accou...Hester Lynch Thrale John MooreView of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland...Print: Book
1700-1799'I walked into Robson's Shop the other day, and seeing a very fine Virgil was tempted to open it with something of Superstitious Intention by way of trying the "Sortes Vi...Hester Lynch Thrale VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799'I cannot remember learning the Alphabet but when I was four years of age or there about my Godmother presented me with a new book it was the reading made easy it had/man...Joseph Mayett anonReading made easy in a variety of useful lessonsPrint: Book
1700-1799?My Godmother sone [sic] provided me a testament but my mother not being able to Read the first Chapter of St Matthews Gospel I began the second and read it through as we...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799?I made very little progress in learning until the year 1794 only my mother borrowed the pilgrim?s progress and Doctor Watts hymns for me and told me the meaning of them ...Joseph Mayett John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1700-1799?I made very little progress in learning until the year 1794 only my mother borrowed the pilgrim?s progress and Doctor Watts hymns for me and told me the meaning of them ...Joseph Mayett Dr WattsHymnsPrint: Book
1700-1799?during this winter I practised rather more than I had done before for the last two years for my master used to Read himself and make all as Could in the family on a Saba...Joseph Mayett [unknown][religious books]Print: Book
1700-1799?I Remembered when I was about 8 or 9 years of age my mother had been Correcting me for something I had done wrong and I thought I would be revenged on her I had been rea...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'She [his aunt] did not allow me to be idle, but alternately employed me in helping to knit stockings and in reading. While I was unemployed I found a never-failing sourc...Thomas Carter [n/a]BiblePrint: Book


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