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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
 
1700-1799Very miserable. 'Like a poor Lunitick that Makes his Moan And for a time beguiles the Lookers-On He reasons well, his Eyes their Wildness lose And vows the keepers his w...Gertrude Savile Nathaniel LeeCaesar Borgia. A TragedyPrint: Book
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1600-1699		Virginia F. Stern notes annotations made by Gabriel Harvey in his copy of Joannis Foorth, "Synopsis Politica"(1582).Gabriel Harvey Joannis FoorthSynopsis PoliticaPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		Virginia F. Stern notes 'a few MS. notes and underlinings' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of Joannes Boccatius, "Compendium Romanae historiae" (1535).Gabriel Harvey Joannes BoccatiusCompendium Romanae historiae, oppido quam succintu...Print: Book
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1600-1699		Virginia F. Stern notes 'Many underlinings and MS. notes' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of George Buchanan, "Ane admonition direct to the trew Lordis mantenaris of the Kingis ...Gabriel Harvey George BuchananAne admonition direct to the trew Lordis mantenari...Print: Book
1500-1599Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February] 1570 and some in 1579.'Gabriel Harvey CiceroM. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum T...Print: Book
1500-1599Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February] 1570 and some in 1579.'Gabriel Harvey CiceroM. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum T...Print: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		Virginia F. Stern notes that in Gabriel Harvey's 1563 copy of Cicero, "Epistolae ad Atticum" 'The glossary is divided [by Harvey, using characteristic shorthand symbols a...Gabriel Harvey CiceroM. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Atticum. Ad M. B...Print: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		Virginia F. Stern notes that, in Gabriel Harvey's copy of William Bourne, "A Regiment for the Sea" (1592; inscribed 1594 by Harvey), 'brown crayon-like horizontal marking...Gabriel Harvey William BourneA Regiment for the Sea, Containing verie necessari...Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 18 August 1907: 'I am reading Henry James on America; and feel myself as one embalmed in a block of smooth amber: it is not unpleasan...Virginia Stephen Henry JamesThe American ScenePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 19 August 1908: 'I split my head over Moore every night, feeling ideas travelling to the remotest part of my brain, and setting up a ...Virginia Stephen G. E. MoorePrincipia EthicaPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impressed by him than I should be, that I read Cymbelin...Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweDoctor FaustusPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impressed by him than I should be, that I read Cymbelin...Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweEdward IIPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impressed by him than I should be, that I read Cymbelin...Virginia Stephen William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 1 October 1905: 'We have had visitors for the last 4 weeks [...] I have written quite a lot [...] Also I have read a good deal,...Virginia Stephen eighteenth-century textsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it ...Virginia Stephen Christina RossettipoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it ...Virginia Stephen John KeatspoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it ...Virginia Stephen Ernest RenanCahiers de JeunessePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, ?30 December 1906: 'I have been reading Keats most of the day. I think he is about the greatest of all [...] I like cool Greek ...Virginia Stephen John KeatspoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warning sounded. I'll put down the reflections that oc...Virginia Woolf Benedict Nicolsonletter to Virginia WoolfManuscript: Letter
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warning sounded. I'll put down the reflections that occu...Benedict Nicolson Virginia WoolfRoger FryPrint: Book


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