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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'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox, Smollet & Fielding. The...Hester Lynch Thrale Tobias SmollettFerdinand Count FathomPrint: Book
1800-1849'Everything seems to have been designed to develop the serious fold in her nature. At ten, the poor infant was reading Smollett's History [...] She summed up her impressi...Anne Isabella Milbanke Tobias SmollettHistoryPrint: Book
1850-189919 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettPeregrine PicklePrint: Book
1850-189918 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, with great delight, Thackeray's Esmond. Since I left ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettPeregrine PicklePrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792 'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was not tired with its length because the chief of its c...Elizabeth Smith Tobias George SmolettHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place Tobias George Smollett Print: Book
1800-1849'I got thro 6 chapters of Count Fathom- about an hours undertaking- and this has been the way thro my whole readings- a chapter at one hour - the volume thrown aside for ...William Upcott Tobias George SmollettThe Adventures of Ferdinand Count FathomPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Tom, an Oxford contemporary] Following an elite fashion among moneyed aesthetes, he published, privately, a slim volume of poems on thick hand-made paper - "Eyes of Ado...Ralph Glasser Tom Eyes of AdonisPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave me a real shock - perhaps because it so confirmed my...Antonia White Tom Hopkinson[diary notebook]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily w...Antonia White Tom HopkinsonI have been DrownedUnknown
1900-1945'While admiring Tom's book ['The Man Below', 1939] I have great pleasure in finding its weaknesses and though I cannot help admitting there are passages in it far beyond ...Antonia White Tom HopkinsonMan Below, TheManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pres...Emily Tennyson Tom HughesAlfred the GreatPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Now I am upon the republic system I must tell you that Bristol seems preparing for it. A pamphlet propose...Robert Southey Tom PaineThe Rights of Man. Part the Second Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849"As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into reasoning upon men and things, the causes of misery, th...Gerald Massey Tom PaineThe Rights of ManPrint: Book
1800-1849'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the books with which the shelves were stored. The "Age o...Charles Manby Smith Tom PaineAge of ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849William McCarty, convicted for burglary, sentenced to seven years' transportation: 'As regards my religious character, before I came to this place I used to boast of my i...William McCarty Tom Paine[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Extract from chaplain's [John Field] journal, 18 Jul 1844: 'Found that a prisoner committed yesterday was an avowed infidel who had read attentively Paine's "Age of Reas...H.C. Tom PaineAge of ReasonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is unintelligible to me - and, naturally, much of this par...William Soutar Tom ScottOn my 21st BirthdayManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'At half past one Tom Scott strode in, having come home from West Africa: very little change in him after his two years in the tropics. Brought some poems for me to look ...William Soutar Tom Scott[poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with facility, & am now abridging the Angelica of Lope de V...Robert Southey Tomás de IriarteFábulas Literarias Print: Book


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