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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
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Suetonius Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Fi...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Fi...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroAcademic QuestionsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Fi...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroTusculan DisputationsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Edmond Curll said to LP] 'I have received from [italics] Ireland [end italics], from your Husband, the Life of Alderman [italics] Barber [end italics], wherein there is ...Edmond Curll Matthew Pilkington[Life of Barber]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Edmund Lushington writes] 'At Xmas 1841 I went for a few days' holiday from Glasgow to Kent and spent the time mostly at Boxley, where A. T. was now settled with his ...Edmund Lushington Alfred Tennyson'In Memoriam' versesManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 May 1763:] 'Carlo Maggi is, indeed, a most excellent companion, and I agree with you in lamenting that one cannot recommend t...Elizabeth Carter Carlo MaggipoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 October 1766:] 'Fye upon you and your popish saints [...] Your whole folio [of saints' lives] is not half so well worth readi...Elizabeth Carter Lloyd's ChroniclePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:] 'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen part of the Preface, which was like himself. I have ju...Elizabeth Carter Samuel JohnsonPreface to DictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:] 'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen part of the Preface, which was like himself. I have ju...Elizabeth Carter Deane SwiftEssay on the Life, &c. of Dr SwiftPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:] 'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel were genuine; it is so long since...Elizabeth Carter Katherine PhillipsLetters to Sir Charles CotterelPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:] 'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel were genuine; it is so long since...Elizabeth Carter Katherine PhillipspoetryPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:] 'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel were genuine; it is so long since...Elizabeth Carter advertisement for work by 'Mr Hanway'Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 15 October 1763:] 'It is more from the testimony of others than from any recollection of my own, that I had formed the idea that...Elizabeth Carter Desiderius Erasmus'Dialogues'Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 16 June 1758:] 'Since I came home I have picked up [reading] at Mrs Gambieu's the Memoirs of Anne of Austria, in a vile and most...Elizabeth Carter Françoise Langlois de MottevilleMemoirs for the History of Anne of AustriaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 July 1768, following expressions of concern over illness of Talbot's stepfather Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury:] 'Si...anon report of illness of Archbishop of CanterburyPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 May 1756:] 'I have not seen Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, but your recommendation of it [in letter of 7 May 1756] wil...Elizabeth Carter Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 September 1761:] 'I have seen an article in the newspaper which I am particularly sorry for as it will affect you -- I imagin...Elizabeth Carter report of death of Mr ChaponePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 3 May 1756:] 'I had read an extract from that book which you say is writ by Mr Greville, and concluded it must be a translation ...Elizabeth Carter Fulke GrevilleReflections, maxims, and characters, moral, critic...Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:] 'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collected from all the frippery shelves throughout Westminst...Elizabeth Carter Salomon GessnerLa Mort d'AbelPrint: Book


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