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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
 
1900-1945Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowing into that plaited nest [...] Reading Thomas A'Quin...Virginia Woolf William WordsworthlettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowing into that plaited nest [...] Reading Thomas A'Quin...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgelettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowing into that plaited nest [...] Reading Thomas A'Quin...Virginia Woolf G. K. ChestertonThomas AquinasPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I call, deceptively, the Albatross.'Virginia Woolf John Stuart MillAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of Purgatorio, but find it stiff, the meaning more than the language, I think.' ...Virginia Woolf Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of Purgatorio, but find it stiff, the meaning more than the language, I think.' ...Leonard Woolf Stephen Gwynne and Gertrude TuckwellLife of Sir Charles Wentworth DilkePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 6 September 1922: 'I finished Ulysses, & think it a mis-fire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is prete...Virginia Woolf James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 1 August 1827: 'Smoked a cigar after dinner, laughd with my daughters and read them the review of Hoffmann's production out of Gillies's new Foreign review....Walter Scott Walter Scottarticle on E. T. W. HoffmannPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Wednesday, 10 June 1829: 'I have been reading over the Five Days of St. Albans [sic], very much [quotes Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I.72] extra moenia flammantia mundi ...Walter Scott William MudfordThe Five Nights of St AlbansPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 12 March 1829: 'I read Reginald Heber's journal after dinner. I spent some merry days with him at Oxford when he was writing his prize-poem. He was then a g...Walter Scott Reginald HeberNarrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces...Print: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 13 April 1831: 'My nap [same afternoon] was a very short one and was agreeably replaced by Basil Hall's Fragments of Voyages. Every thing about the i[n]side...Walter Scott Captain Basil HallFragments of Voyages and TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 14 November 1827: 'Read the Gazette of the great battle of Navarrino in which we have thumped the Turks very well.'Walter Scott GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott William Giffordtranslation of JuvenalPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott William GiffordThe Baviad Print: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott William GiffordThe MaeviadPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott report of funeral of William GiffordPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Wednesday, 23 January 1829: 'Mr. Bell sends me a spec[i]ment [sic] of a Historical novel but he goes not the way to write it. He is too general and not sufficient[ly] ...Walter Scott Bell'specimen of a historical novel'Unknown
1800-1849Wednesday, 25 March 1829: 'Dined. Heard Anne reading a paper of anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson and so to bed.'Anne Scott 'anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson [ie Ewan Macpher...Unknown
1800-1849Wednesday, 26 October 1831: 'Here we are [at Portsmouth] still fixd by the inexorable wind [...] I engaged in a new novel by Mr. Smith calld New Forest. It is written ...Walter Scott SmithNew ForestPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 4 July 1827: 'Read De Vere the rest. It is well written in point of language and sentiment but has too little action in it to be termd a pleasing Novel. Eve...Walter Scott Robert WardDe VerePrint: Book


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