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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
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds William BarnesA Bit o’ Sly Coortin’Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge William BartramTravels Through North & South CarolinaPrint: Book
1900-1945Considerable textual marginalia in English throughout.Vernon Lee William BatesonProblems of GeneticsPrint: Book
1800-1849'From the caverns dark recesses...' 'A natural Aeolian Harp discovered in one of the caves in Germany - Beattie's Tour'Bowly groupWilliam BeattieJournal of A Residence in Germany... in 1822, 1825Unknown
1800-1849'Bonn July 10th 1822. The [Harper?] crossed himself... adapted a popular Rhinish air... Dr Beattie's Tour in 1822'Bowly groupWilliam BeattieJournal of A Residence in Germany... in 1822, 1825Unknown
1800-1849'The Bugle song...' 'Beattie's Tour'Bowly groupWilliam BeattieJournal of A Residence in Germany... in 1822, 1825Unknown
1800-1849'Lake of Constance "What beauty flashes from the brow of night, ..." Beattie's Tour'Bowly groupWilliam BeattieJournal of A Residence in Germany...in 1822, 1825Unknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley William BeckfordVathekPrint: Book
1800-1849"The [Pierpont] Morgan [Library] copy [of Southey, A Vision of Judgement (1821)] once belonged to Byron. It contains a transcription, in ink, not necessarily made in Byr...anon William BeckfordAnnotations to Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgeme...Manuscript: annotations in printed text
1800-1849'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though she did include some novels - Miss Edgewort...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke William BeckfordVathekPrint: Book
1800-1849'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though it did include some novels -- Miss Edgeworth's and B...Anne Isabella Milbanke William BeckfordVathekPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mama read the beginning of "Wateck" to us. I fell asleep'.Agathe Wynne William BeckfordVathekPrint: Unknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin William BeckfordVathek
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read "Vathek" at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the im...Joseph Conrad William BeckfordVathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Cali...Print: Book, Unknown
1700-1799'In the even read part of Beveridge's "Thoughts".'Thomas Turner William BeveridgePrivate thoughts upon religion digested into twelv...Print: Book
1800-1849'In her letter of 18 Oct. 1811 ... S[ara] H[utchinson] told Mary Monkhouse: "I have been dipping into Bingley's Tour of N. Wales." She goes on to copy out two quotations...Sara Hutchinson William BingleyNorth Wales: including its scenery, antiquities, c...Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849'Read Bingley's useful knowledge, Jocular Tenures, Pyle, much interrupted by Justice business'.Rev. Benjamin Newton William BingleyUseful knowledge or a familiar and explanatory acc...Unknown
1900-1945'April at Scarboro''Sarah Good William BlackA Daughter of HethPrint: Book
1700-1799I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landla...Francis Place William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s History of England, both for the 2d time over & in t...John Marsh William BlackstoneCommentaries on the laws of EnglandPrint: Book


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