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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
 
1700-1799'Mr Seward has just brought me a very great Curiosity a Copy of English Verses written by Jones the Orientalist when only 13 Years old. Both the Authour & his Friend swea...Hester Lynch Thrale William Jones[MS Ode on St Cecilia's Day]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'...Thomas Carter William JowettChristian Researches in the Mediterranean, from MD...Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished "Kelly"s book on Victoria; it is very interesting tho rather coarse' Albert Battiscombe William KellyLife in Victoria, or, Victoria in 1853 and Victori...Print: Book
1700-1799'Looked over King's "Origin of Evil"...'Thomas Green William KingDe origine maliPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, on childhood religious beliefs and practices, 15 January 1846: 'As to the [classical] gods and goddesses, I believed in them all ...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett William KingPolitical and Literary Anecdotes of His Own TimesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835: 'The Bridgewater treatises seem to me (I have not read them all) very unequal [...] They are not consiste...Elizabeth Barrett William KirbyThe Habits and Instincts of AnimalsPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 8 December 1825: 'Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since [...] succeeding to good farms under the Duke of Buccleuch [he]...Walter Scott William KnoxThe Lonely HearthUnknown
1800-1849Thursday, 8 December 1825: 'Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since [...] succeeding to good farms under the Duke of Buccleuch [he]...Walter Scott William Knox'Spiritual hymns'Unknown
1800-1849'Talking of Vixisse it may not be impertinent to notice that Knox (Footnote: William Knox), a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since...His poeti...Walter Scott William KnoxLonely HearthUnknown
1800-1849'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh Hunt are quite delicious pray may I ask if the India...James Hogg William Laidlaw'Sagacity of a Shepherd's Dog'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William LaudThe Second Volume of the Remains of the Most Rever...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William LaudThe History of the Troubles and Tryal of The Most ...Print: Book
1700-1799'In Archbishop Laud's Diary I found the following passage, which I read to Dr. Johnson: "1623. February 1, Sunday. I stood by the most illustrious Prince Charles, at d...James Boswell William Laud[diary]Print: Book
1700-1799at home all day [...] at Oaks I met with Mr Laws practical discourse on christian perfection [...] I am now reading itJames Clegg William LawA Practical Traetise Upon Christain PerfectionPrint: Book
1850-1899'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou...Henry Maynard William Law Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William LawA serious call to a devout and holy lifePrint: Book
1700-1799'"When at Oxford, I took up Law's "Serious Call to a Holy Life", expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found L...Samuel Johnson William LawSerious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, APrint: Book
1700-1799'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London-based priest friend of Johnson] He much commended Law's "Serious Call", which he said was the finest piece of hortatory t...Samuel Johnson William LawSerious Call to a Devout and Holy Life Print: Book
1700-1799'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetration into human Nature; the Characters too so neatly, ...Hester Lynch Thrale William LawSerious Call to a Devout and Holy LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y...Aneurin Bevan William Le Queux[unknown]Print: Book


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