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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'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'.Lawrence Durrell John Keats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'.Lawrence Durrell William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'.Lawrence Durrell Edward Fitzgerald[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell Jean Jacques Rousseau[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell Percy Wyndham Lewis[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell Remy de Gourmont[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell Donatien Alphonse-Fran?ois de Sade[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward John Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward Mark Akenside[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward Erasmus Darwin[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward Thomas Gray[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending t...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Vittorio Alfieri[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending t...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke William Wordsworth[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending t...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Samuel Taylor Coleridge[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though she did include some novels - Miss Edgewort...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Maria Edgeworth[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice ...William Somerset Maugham Frederick Marryat[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read all evening'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read and work in the evening'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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