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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'Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42mo. Price 5/-, 5th edition.Anne Lister Anthony Todd ThomsonA Conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London [ePrint: Book
1900-1945'Your Saturday Review fling is first rate. Nothing I liked more since the gold-fish carrier story'. Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA Convert (?) Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 1 February 1849:

'There are two volumes in the first parcel [sent on loan by Williams] which, having seen,...		Charlotte Brontë Alexander HarrisA Converted Atheist's Testimony to the Truth of Ch...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge August Heinrich MatthiaeA Copious Greek GrammarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Now I have looked [at the verses] I have to thank you for the kind thought of sending me the little volume and for the pleasure it has given me.' Hence follow eight line...Joseph Conrad Douglas GoldringA Country Boy and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'And now I have taken up an old story, begun years ago; and I have now rewritten all I had written of it then and mean to finish it. What I have lost and gained is odd. A...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonA Country DanceManuscript: Earlier draft of one of his stories.
1700-1799'wrote a little logic this afternoon and read Jones on the Figurative languages of the Scriptures'Elizabeth Gurney William JonesA course of lectures on the figurative language of...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jeremy TaylorA Course of Sermons for all the Sundays in the Yea...Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jeremy TaylorA Course of Sermons for all the Sundays in the Yea...Print: Book
1850-1899'But in the case of a story like yours, which is over the heads of the foolish, amiable readers of our "bright little paper", but which I should like, for the good of lit...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Courting UmbrellaManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843: 'I have been reading a good deal of Dr Blair's Dissertation upon Ossian. The Miss Smiths can bear witness, t...Hugh Stuart Boyd Hugh BlairA Critical Dissertation on the Poems of OssianPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read part of Salmon "On Marriage".'Thomas Turner Thomas SalmonA critical essay concerning marriagePrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even finished reading Salmon "On Marriage", which I think to be a very indifferent thing, for the author appears to me to be a very bad logician.'Thomas Turner Thomas SalmonA critical essay concerning marriagePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Daniel Ernst SchleiermacherA Critical Essay on the Gospel of St LukePrint: Book
1900-1945'April at Scarboro''Sarah Good William BlackA Daughter of HethPrint: Book
1800-1849Have you seen a little volume of Westall's Poems containing a DAY in SPRING, and other detached pieces, with four lovely engravings from his own designs? One of them rep...Sarah Harriet Burney Richard WestallA Day in Spring, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "A Death in the Desert": 'Sixty years have passed sin...Herbert Hensley Henson Robert BrowningA Death in the DesertUnknown
1600-1699'And so to dinner alone, having since church-time heard my boy read over Dryden's reply to Sir R Howard's answer about his "Essay of Poesy" - and a letter in answer to th...John DrydenA defence of an essayPrint: Book
1700-1799'transcript of passages from chapter 4 under the commonplce book heading "non jurors"'John Fortescue Aland Nathaniel MarshallA defence of our constitution in church and stateUnknown
1700-1799'In the morning read part of a book entitled "A Defence of Plurality of Church Benefices", but I cannot be persuaded by his reasons that it is always beneficial to promot...Thomas Turner Henry WhartonA defence of pluralities, or, holding two benefice...Print: Book


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