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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[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:] 'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, except a little volume of very pretty Essays by Miss Aiki...Elizabeth Carter Anna Laetitia AikinEssays [?on Various Subjects]Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:] 'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, except a little volume of very pretty Essays by Miss Aiki...Elizabeth Carter Jacob BryantA New System, or, an Analysis of Ancient Mythology...Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:] 'Be so good as to tell Mrs Handcock that I do like the "Vicar of Wakefield," and likewise that I do not [...] Ind...Elizabeth Carter Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:] 'I thank you for your transcript from Fairfax [translator of Torquato Tasso], which is very pretty.'Elizabeth Carter Edward Fairfax Manuscript: Unknown, Transcribed by Elizabeth Vesey.
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:] 'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it with some exception; many, indeed most of them, are ...Elizabeth Carter ?Thomas SherlockSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:] 'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it with some exception; many, indeed most of them, are ...Elizabeth Carter Thomas SeckerSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 9 January 1782:] 'Alas, my dear friend, it is not a reflection on the writings or conversation of a licentious profligate infidel...Elizabeth Vesey ?Thomas Francois ?Raynal Print: Book
1900-1945[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whether eternal justice exists, immutable right & wrong...Edward Morgan Forster J. A. Symonds Manuscript: Unknown, Copied from earlier transcription in Forster's hand.
1900-1945[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whether eternal justice exists, immutable right & wrong...Edward Morgan Forster J. A. Symonds Unknown
1850-1899[Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Christianity, diffusion of, assisted by the general scepticism of the pagan world combined with the necessity of some belief in the vulgar...Edward Davy Harrop Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1850-1899[Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Mammon (figurative) description of, Paradise Lost, Book 1, line 680'.Edward Davy Harrop John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and without doing it with a dictionary like other lessons'.Thomas Babington Macaulay BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849[Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetry from p.48 to 63 but [it] is too voluptuous, too An...Anne Lister Thomas MooreThe Loves of the AngelsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Following Hallam Tennyson's description of his mother's attendance of her younger sister as bridesmaid in May 1836] 'My uncle Arthur says: "It was then I first saw yo...Emily Sellwood John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1900-1945[following heading 'Bakunin (1814-1876)] 'Reading Carr's pitiless and ungenerous account of him, I am often carried outside it to contemplate the endless senseless tortur...Edward Morgan Forster E. H. CarrMichael BakuninPrint: Book
1900-1945[Following heading 'St Augustine'] 'Some questions raised rather than solved in Figges' [sic] "Political Aspects of the City of God" [goes on to transcribe extracts and a...Edward Morgan Forster John Neville FiggisThe Political Aspects of St Augustine's City of Go...Print: Book
1900-1945[following heading Sophocles of Constantinople] 'I have run through his Ecclesiastical History with amusement and without contempt [...] Bk V ch. 18 on the purity campaig...Edward Morgan Forster Socrates of ConstantinopleEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899[following journal entry for 1 November 1879] 'The next few days [following seven weeks' travels in Europe] were occupied unpacking, after which the Schreibers went to Ca...Lady Charlotte Schreiber William Makepeace ThackerayHumoristsPrint: Book
1850-1899[following journal entry for 15 October 1879] 'A few days later Lady Charlotte was immersed in Mrs. Edwards' Selections from the Poets.'Lady Charlotte Schreiber Mrs Edwards, ed.Selections from the PoetsPrint: Book
1850-1899[following journal entry for 19 February 1889] 'That evening [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] youngest daughter, Blanche, dined and read to her the article on Lord Beacons...Blanche Countess of Bessborough Henry Layardarticle on Lord BeaconsfieldPrint: Serial / periodical


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