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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'I have fallen in love with the Charles of Orleans period and cannot get enough of it. I see six essays at least, on single characters: Charles, Rene of Anjou, Jacques Co...Robert Louis Stevenson Various[Texts by or about 15th-century French literary an...Print: Probably books and articles.
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

[...]

7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Howard Smith unknown [texts on 17th-century Quaker history, in particul...Print: Book
1800-1849'During the period of the writing of the three Series, -- the Political Economy, Taxation, and Poor-laws -- I never remember but once sitting down to read whatever I plea...Harriet Martineau unknown[Texts on American geography and politics]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was w...Elizabeth Sewell unknown[Texts on botany]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of study included -- besides English history and exercises...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknown[texts on French history]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally very clever; for, although she had received little or n...Jane Edwards unknown[Texts on history]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen [texts on science / religion debate]Print: Book
1700-1799'Wrote out of the Register's "Mary Queen of Scotts a Monody; Written near the Ruins of Sheffield Manor". It is one of the pretttiest pieces of poetry in the Registers. It...Joseph Hunter [n/a][The Annual] RegisterPrint: Book
1800-1849Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which the perusal since he came on board of some treatise ...anon [unknown][the barren fig tree]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'To sigh, yet feel no pain; /To weep - yet scarce know why/ To sport an hour with Beauty's chain/ Then throw ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Thomas] [Moore][The Blue Stocking]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read the Budget today and am in low spirits at the provoking prosperity of the country. It is impossible to ruin it in spite of all Brougham can say - and Perceva...Sydney Smith [n/a][The Budget]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other passions fly/ All others are but vanity/ Earthly the...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] Southey[The curse of Kehama, canto X]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quit...Benjamin Newton Bede[The Ecclesiastical History]Print: Book
1800-1849'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.Mary Godwin Edmund Spenser[The Faerie Queene?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'.Mary Godwin Edmund Spenser[The Faerie Queene?]Print: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto of 4 book)'Mary Godwin Edmund Spenser[The Faerie Queene?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto)'Mary Godwin Edmund Spenser[The Faerie Quene?]Print: Book
1800-1849'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'.Mary Godwin Edmund Spenser[The Faerie Quene?]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for relief/ But slowly did her succour come/ And a pati...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine William Wordsworth[The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton A...Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage. 8th May ’43
    Muriel Stevens in the Chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read & signed

[...] ...		Knox Taylor Knox Taylor[the historical background to Samuel Johnson and h...Manuscript: Unknown


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