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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
 
1600-1699
1700-1799
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Moralistic reflections in verse'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Philip WoodhouseMoralistic reflections in versePrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Some Essays of Morality in prozaick Ryme upon Aristotles definition of friendly Loue'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Philip WoodhouseSome Essays of Morality in prozaick Ryme upon Aris...Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne's translation of Lucan, Pharsalia, IV.519-20.Elizabeth Lyttelton LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne, 'Of Consumptions'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Thomas BrowneOf ConsumptionsUnknown
1600-1699
1700-1799
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Thomas Flatman, 'On Dr. Brown's Travels'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Thomas FlatmanOn Dr. Brown's TravelsPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, two couplets from Edward Reynolds, 'A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soule of Man'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Edward ReynoldsA Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the So...Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, two couplets from Nathaniel Wanley's translation of Justus Lipsius, 'A discourse of constancy'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Justus LipsiusA Discourse of ConstancyPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, verses by Lady Jane Grey beginning: 'be Constant be Constant Feare not for Pain'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Lady Jane Grey'Be Constant'Print: Book
1800-1849Transcribed in letter from William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c.25 February 1818]: 'If money I lack The shirt on my back Shall off - and go to the hammer; F...William Wordsworth  Print: Handbill
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's 'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Re...Edward Pordage John Dryden'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Me...Print: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition (1682); notes from the 'Epistle to the Whi...Edward Pordage John DrydenEpistle to the WhigsPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition (1682); notes from the 'Epistle to the Whi...Edward Pordage John DrydenThe Medall. A Satyre Against SeditionPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel a Poem (1682). Edward Pordage John DrydenThe Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel a PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from Samuel Pordage's Azaria and Hushai. A Poem (1682) p.38. Edward Pordage Samuel PordageAzaria and Hushai. A PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from the fifth edition of Thomas Sprat's The Plague of Athens (1688) [p.34] [...] his allegory on t...Edward Pordage Thomas SpratThe Plague of AthensPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from Thomas Sprat's 'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince, Oliver Lord Protector, &c. P...Edward Pordage Thomas Sprat'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince,...Print: Book
1900-1945Transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929): 'It does not mattter what men say in words so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. T...Edward Morgan Forster A. N. WhiteheadScience and the Modern WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company whic...Hilary Spalding Margaret IrwinStill She Wished for CompanyPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company whic...Hilary Spalding Harrison Ainsworth Print: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company whic...Hilary Spalding Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book



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