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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
 
1800-1849Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday and whi...Anne Lister William EmersonThe principle of mechanicsUnknown
1800-1849had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday.Anne Lister William EmersonMechanics or The Principles of MechanicsPrint: Book
1800-1849Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in...William Wordsworth William EnfieldSpeaker, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter William EnfieldThe SpeakerPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no poor devil at the foot of the gallows was more overj...Robert Southey William EnfieldHistory of Philosophy, From the Earliest Times to ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Your kind and racy critiques both give me pleasure and do me good; that is to say, your praise gives me pleasure because it is so sincere and judicious that I value it; ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Fairbairn[remarks on 'North and South']Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I don't think you know how much good your letter did me. In the first place I was really afraid that you did not like my book, because I had never received your usual le...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Fairbairn[letter offering his opinion of Gaskell's biograph...Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'Colonel Digby had read Falconer's "The Shipwreck" aloud to Burney during her court service ...'The Hon. Stephen Digby William FalconerThe ShipwreckPrint: Book
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter William Falconer[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William FalconerThe ShipwreckPrint: Book
1900-1945'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere...Rosamond Lehmann William Faulkner Print: Book
1850-1899'I have just returned from reading a chapter of your book to my wife and her daughter. There was not a dry eye at the table, and the reader had to suspend operations, cho...Robert Louis Stevenson William Forbes-MitchellReminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-9Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Frend's "Animadversions" on Prettyman's Theology:--more temperate and chastised than I expected...'Thomas Green William FrendAnimadversions on the elements of Christian theolo...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have sent your letter on to my husband by this post; but I must just say a very hearty thank you for the pleasure I know it will give him. It will come to him at the s...Walter Savage Landor William GaskellLectures on the Lancashire DialectUnknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 10 May 1808: 'I began reading aloud Gell's "Ithaca".'Mary Berry William GellThe Geography and Antiquities of IthacaPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 11 May 1808: 'In the evening, Gell's "Ithaca".'Mary Berry William GellThe Geography and Antiquities of IthacaPrint: Book
1900-1945 Thanks for your letter & 'The Polyglots'. I regret not to be able to agree with you as to the latter. I have read it, & though it is loose & contains some merely silly...Arnold Bennett William GerhardiThe PolyglotsPrint: Book
1800-1849''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elw...John Mitchel William Gifford[autobiography]Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Baviad and Maeviad"; an exquisite satire on the loathsome affectations of the Della Crusca school of poetry...'Thomas Green William GiffordThe BaviadPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaissance-period texts, by William Gifford in his Memoir ...Edward Morgan Forster William GiffordMemoir of Ben JonsonPrint: Book


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