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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
 
1850-1899[Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is reference to another medical work 'An Essay on The Action o...Magdalene Sharpe Erskine Alexander MacaulayA dictionary of medicine, designed for popular usePrint: Book
[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John WalkerA Dictionary of the English LanguagePrint: Book
1600-1699'This weeke I saw ye Directory, and an Ordinance of Parliamt [sic] to take away ye heavy burden of ye booke of Common prayer in all ye parts of ye same'Ralph Josselin [n/a] [n/a]A Directory for the Publique Worship of God throug...
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Ellery ChanningA DiscoursePrint: Book
1600-1699'I read Dr Wilkins of prayer, and in reading the Bible observed and wrote downe in a book notes for matter, method and expression; and although by such industrious wayes ...Isaac Archer John WilkinsA Discourse Concerning the Gift of PrayerPrint: Book
1600-1699'He gone, I down by water to Woolwich and Deptford to look after the despatch of the ships, all the way reading Mr Spencer's book of Prodigys, which is most ingeniously w...Samuel Pepys John SpencerA discourse containing prodigies; wherein the vani...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
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William W...Virginia Woolf William WebbeA Discourse of English PoetriePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas WhitfieldA Discourse of Liberty of Conscience...Print: Book
1700-1799'Perused, with delight and admiration, Mackintosh's "Preliminary Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations"...'Thomas Green Sir James MackintoshA discourse on the study of the law of nature, and...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28 July 1835: 'I have been reading [...] Lord Brougham's Natural Theology, -- and have shaken my head over it [...] It seems t...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Peter Brougham, Lord BroughamA Discourse upon Natural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842: 'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? Mr Kenyon "caused it to pass before my face" & I di...Elizabeth Barrett Joseph HunterA Disquisition on the Scene, Origin, Date, etc. of...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hugh FarmerA Dissertation on MiraclesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was yesterday at Belleim, the winter palace of the King [of Portugal] [...] The house is by no means fine, and did not the garden and other appurtenances atone for it,...Janet Schaw Sir William ChambersA Dissertation on Oriental GardeningPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Stanley FaberA Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: Or ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Stanley FaberA Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: Or ...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.October 1835: 'Did you ever hear of Dr Wardlaw's treatise upon infant baptism? It is very clearly and forcibly written, -- ...Elizabeth Barrett Ralph WardlawA Dissertation on the Scriptural Authority, Nature...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 January 1831: 'You will lend me Phalaris (will you not?) at some future time -- -- i have read it [italics]once[end italics...Elizabeth Barrett Richard BentleyA Dissertation upon the Epistles of PhalarisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Kipling's "Diversities", Steevans "India" Wells "War [of the Worlds]" "Dynamiter" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'Ronald Storrs Rudyard KiplingA Diversity of CreaturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Henrik IbsenA Doll's HousePrint: Book


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