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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[Following notes on 'squabble' between SS. Jerome and Augustine] 'Extracted from ch. iv of Lecky's "Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne", interesting, ill-indexed, str...Edward Morgan Forster W. E. H. LeckyHistory of European Morals from Augustus to Charle...Print: Book
1900-1945[Following notes on life and thought of Pelagius] 'From a good article in the Biographie Universelle.'Edward Morgan Forster Michaudarticle on PelagiusPrint: Book
1900-1945[following transcribed passage on 'gravity,' from Tristram Shandy I.ii] 'Insight vitiated by instinct of self defence -- probably typical of Sterne, whom I have begun ...Edward Morgan Forster Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1900-1945[Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can take the trouble to quote from Leigh Hunt's memoirs ...Virginia Woolf Leigh HuntThe Autobiography of Leigh HuntPrint: Book
1800-1849[footnote includes a quote from Evenings and the following:] 'Nevertheless, the germs of all modern conceit and error respecting manufacture and industry ads rivalsto Art...John Ruskin John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1800-1849[Fri 27 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Friday 20 November 1840]. Before prayers work with my Father- cards at night- shooting - read Stahl- Clarendon- Burnet (Own Time, began).William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1700-1799[from Bennet Langton's collection of Johnsoniana passed to Boswell in 1780] 'He mentioned with an air of satisfaction what Baretti had told him; that, meeting, in the cou...Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti Mr Grove[articled in 'The Spectator']Print: Serial / periodical
1600-1699[from chapter entitled 'Aphra Behn'] 'One thing is certain, pure her mind was not, but tainted to the very core. She loved grossness for its own sake, because it w...Aphra Behn Mademoiselle de Scudery Print: Book
1600-1699[from chapter entitled 'Aphra Behn'] 'One thing is certain, pure her mind was not, but tainted to the very core. She loved grossness for its own sake, because it w...Aphra Behn Madame de la Fayette Print: Book
1800-1849[From Charlotte Bronte's introduction to the 1850 edition of her sisters' novels:] 'One day in the autumn of 1845 I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume in verse in my...Charlotte Bronte Emily BrontepoemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[From Charlotte Bronte's introduction to the 1850 edition of her sisters' novels:] 'One day in the autumn of 1845 I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume in verse in my...Charlotte Bronte Anne BrontepoemsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[From ed. notes:] '[Samuel Richardson's] correspondence with Lady [Dorothy] Bradshaigh began in the following manner: -- A lady, calling herself Belfour, wrote to the...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh Samuel RichardsonClarissa (volumes 1-4)Print: Book
1800-1849[From Ellen Nussey's account of her first visit to the home of her schoolfriend, Charlotte Bronte:] 'In summer [Elizabeth Branwell] spent part of the afternoon in read...Elizabeth Branwell  Print: Unknown
1850-1899[From letter to Clement Shorter from the niece of John Nunn:] 'In 1857 I was staying with Mr Nunn at Thorndon, in Suffolk, of which place he was rector. The good man h...anon Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1800-1849[From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in another obituary notice, in reading his briefs aloud to h...Anne Romilly [unknown][legal briefs]Unknown
1700-1799[from SHR's intro] 'It was probably Day's "Sandford and Merton" which induced her [Maria Edgeworth] to apply her natural gifts to the writing of books of an educational n...Maria Edgeworth Thomas DaySandford and MertonPrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 13 May 1818:] 'Read Young's Night Thoughts.'Elizabeth Firth Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 2 January 1819:] 'Read the Heart of Midlothian.'Elizabeth Firth Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 21 June 1817:] 'Read Old Mortality; did not like it.'Elizabeth Firth Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book


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