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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'"Deck not with Gems"' 'Deck not with gems that lovely form forme/...'Julia Thomas Haynes BaylyDeck Not With GemsPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'The Bride Maid The bridal is over, the guests are all gone... Jany 18 1829'Bowly groupThomas Haynes BaylyThe BridesmaidUnknown
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron...Chester Armstrong Thomas Henry Huxley Print: Book
1900-1945'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoriam" at the Battersea Public Library'.William John Brown Thomas Henry Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,...Joseph Toole Thomas Henry Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a vast deal of good, & I hope you will send one of your most severe on...Charles Darwin Thomas Henry ListerGranbyPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde Thomas Henry NewmanCritical and Historical EssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'... read Fortune by Sea and Land written by Tho, Heywood W. Rowley It is so sweet'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Heywood and William RowleyFortune by Land and SeaPrint: 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 Hill Green Print: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Thomas J. HorderCerebro-Spinal FeverPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841: 'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end italics] read "Gaston de Blondeville" [...] And I...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas J. SerleJoan of ArcPrint: Book
1800-1849Engaged in a 2nd perusal of the Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine I.G. Thomas James MathiasThe Pursuits of Literature; A Satirical PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798 'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I dislike satire in general, but this appears to me one...Elizabeth Smith Thomas James MathiasThe Pursuits of LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849'She [Mrs Montagu] is characterised in this manner in the first part of the "Pursuits of Literature"; comparing the commentators upon Shakespeare [transcribes note on Mon...Joseph Hunter Thomas James MathiasThe Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the first 3 parts of the "Pursuits of Literature", of these the first I admire the most. There are people who will not allow that the author has either wit or learn...Joseph Hunter Thomas James MathiasThe Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished, with much interest, the "Pursuits of Literature"...'Thomas Green Thomas James MathiasPursuits of LiteraturePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have only seen the former parts of the Pursuits of Literature. the author appeared to me to have the mal...Robert Southey Thomas James MathiasThe Pursuits of Literature, or What You Will. A Sa...Print: Book
1900-1945'Let me thank you for the Swinburne bibliography which I've read with the greatest interest.'Joseph Conrad Thomas James WiseA Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas Jefferson HoggMemoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, translated from...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Alexy Haimatoff - study a little greek - read Political Justice'.Mary Godwin Thomas Jefferson HoggMemoirs of Prince Alexy HaimatoffPrint: Book


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