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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
 
1900-1945'Thank you for "Punch" and all the letters of the last few days [...]. I send you a copy of today's "Statesman" since you care to read my stuff. If when you come up...William Henry Hudson Thomas HardyA Changed Man, the Waiting Supper and Other Tales:...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas HarwoodAnnotations, Ecclesiastical and DevotionalPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Woman Killed with Kindness is one of the most striking novels — not plays, though it's more of a play than anything else of his — I ever read.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas HeywoodA Woman Killed with KindnessPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, 'upon the remoue of the body of Queen Elizabeth from Richmond where she dyed the 24 of March, 1602 the 45 year of her Raign, & ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Thomas Heywood (attrib.)Upon the remoue of the body of Queen Elizabeth fro...Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker Thomas Hobbes Print: Book
1900-1945'[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu...Jack Ashley Thomas Hobbes Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas HobbesLeviathanPrint: Book
1600-1699'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a very shrewd piece.'Samuel Pepys Thomas HobbesOf libertie and necessitiePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas Hobbes[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hobbes'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas HobbesHumane NaturePrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads the Bible aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas HobbesLeviathanPrint: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesThomas Hobbes Print: Book
1900-1945'Perpetually through my head, interfering with the detached contemplation of Hobbes's "Leviathan" and Mill on "Liberty", ran a sentence from one of the Elizabethan docume...Vera Brittain Thomas HobbesLeviathanPrint: Book
1900-1945'In "The Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, one of the seventeenth-century philosophers whom we had studied in our classes on Political Science, she found for her quotation pag...Winifred Holtby Thomas HobbesThe LeviathanPrint: Book
1800-1849Sir William Molesworth to Harriet Grote, September 1838, regarding his planned edition of the works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: 'I have written this day to Mr. G...William Molesworth Thomas Hobbes Print: Book
1900-1945'They could all, I thought, have been summed up by the glum description of barbarism in the book called "Leviathan" by the seventeenth-century philosopher, Thomas Hobbes....Vera Brittain Thomas HobbesLeviathanPrint: Book
1900-1945'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugees [...] began to reach Palestine: "I was long silent...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas HodgkinItaly and Her Invaders 376-476 (vol. I)Print: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] read Holcroft's play shortly after publication ... on 21 March 1796 [he] told [William] Mathews that "I have attempted to read Holcroft's Man of Ten Thousan...William Wordsworth Thomas HolcroftMan of Ten Thousand, ThePrint: BookUnknown
1700-1799'A novel by Thomas Holcroft, "Anna St Ives", dismissed as "sad stuff I cannot read on".'Anna Larpent Thomas HolcroftAnna St IvesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".'Thomas Carter Thomas HolcroftThe life of Thomas HolcroftPrint: Book


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