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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'"The Roots of the Mountains" is the chief cause of my silence. It is not, however, in spite of this, nearly as good as the first volume of "The Well at the World's E...Clive Staples Lewis William MorrisThe Roots of the MountainsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading again "The Well at the World's End", and it has completely ravished me. There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the ha...Clive Staples Lewis William MorrisThe Well at the World's EndPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am very glad to hear that you are getting to like Jason: I agree with you that the whole description of Medea — glorious character — going out by night, and of her s...Clive Staples Lewis William MorrisThe Life and Death of Jason: A PoemPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have also re-read for the thousandth time "Rapunzel" and some other favourite bits of Morris...'Clive Staples Lewis William MorrisThe Defense of Guenevere and other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations and commentary by unidentified, contemporary male reader in copy of William Mudford, Nubilia in Search of a Husband (1809); an...anon William MudfordNubilia in Search of a HusbandPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 10 June 1829: 'I have been reading over the Five Days of St. Albans [sic], very much [quotes Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I.72] extra moenia flammantia mundi ...Walter Scott William MudfordThe Five Nights of St AlbansPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 12 June 1829: 'After dinner I wrote to Walter, Charles, Lockhart and John Murray and took a screed of my novel so concluded the evening idly enough.'Walter Scott William MudfordThe Five Nights of St AlbansPrint: Book
1800-1849'eminently vindictive, frequently unchristian in spirit, with scarcely any recognition of an over-ruling Providence'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth William NapierHistory of the War in the PeninsulaPrint: Book
1700-1799?I will tell you what is going on, that you may see whether you like your daily bill of fare. ? There is a balloon hanging up, and another going to be put on the stocks; ...Maria Edgeworth William NicholsonThe First Principles of ChemistryPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William NicholsonA Journal of Natural Philosophy, ChemistryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della rivoluzione di Napoli [sic] [makes notes on this]'. ...Claire Clairmont William NicholsonAn Introduction to Natural PhilosophyPrint: Book
1700-1799"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of...George Steevens William Oldysannotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the...
1800-1849'[William Lovett] read William Paley and other theologians in [the library of "The Liberals"].'William Lovett William Paley Print: Book
1800-1849Letter from Barbauld to her neice, Lucy Aikin, dated 27/7/1805. "What is your opinion of [begin underline] causation [end underline]? Do you agree with Dugald Stewart, H...Anna Letitia Barbauld William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1900-1945In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th...Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) William PaleyView of the Evidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1800-1849[The text is an open letter from Pearson to Paley, praising the latter's book, and suggesting its use as an academic textbook. The letter is dated 11/11/1802]Edward Pearson William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'One unfortunate who had confounded together the opening paragraphs of the Evidences and the Natural Theology... [wrote as his exam answer] only this commencement of a se...William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Too hoarse to do duty [at church] Read Paley's Evidences'.Benjamin Newton William PaleyEvidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1700-1799'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided her only relaxation. She must have at least browsed ...Mary Wollstonecraft William PaleyPrinciples of Moral and Political PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" and his "Moral Philosophy". This was done in a thorough manner, ...Charles Darwin William PaleyA View of the Evidences of ChristianityPrint: Book


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