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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
 
1850-1899'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Spenser (Sonnet VIII)... I must send word of this to G...George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare (and others)The Passionate PilgrimPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I read a good deal of Shakespeares works. Item Ben Johnsons, & Return'd them to the library'John Henry Ott William Shakespereare[various]Print: Book
1850-1899'We read ''Severn's Life'' which does very well. He is a rather foolish man, and talks of Keats' dying of the persecution of his enemies when it was consumption...'Emma Darwin William SharpThe Life and Letters of J. SevernPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . his reading of that remarkable book, "When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter"'.Arnold Bennett William ShawWhen I was a Child, Recollections of an Old PotterPrint: Book
'The description of his [the character Darius Clayhanger in Clayhanger] labours as a child, and his days in the workhouse, are not drawn from Enoch's own past, but largel...Arnold Bennett William ShawWhen I was a child, recollections from an old pott...Print: Book
1700-1799'One Shaw, who seems a modest and a decent man, has written an Erse Grammar, which a very learned Highlander, Macbean, has, at my request, examined and approved.' Mr Macbean William Shaw[Erse Grammar]Manuscript: UnknownUnknown
1700-1799Letter to Miss Reid May 24 1773 'O! how I wished for some one to share a luxury that wealth cannot purchase, and that thousands are not born to taste! "O! blind to truth,...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William Shenstone[An ode to the late Duchess of Somerset]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'Her sister, in whose arms she died, was immediately seized with the same disorder, and met her death with the same well-grounded heroism...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William Shenstone[Elegy 15]Print: Book
1700-1799'In the even and the day read 2 of Tillotson's sermons and part of Sherlock upon death. I this day completed reading of Tillotson's sermons over the second time, and so f...Thomas Turner William SherlockA practical discourse concerning deathPrint: Book
1700-1799'...in the even read part of Sherlock upon death.' Thomas Turner William SherlockA practical discourse concerning deathPrint: Book
1700-1799'This day completed the reading of Sherlock on death and which I esteem a very plain, good book, proper for every Christain to read; that is, rich and poor, men and women...Thomas Turner William SherlockA practical discourse concerning deathPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock on death. I now having read "The Complaint" through...Thomas Turner William SherlockA practical discourse concerning deathPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sherlock on death.'Thomas Turner William SherlockA practical discourse concerning deathPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons, Sherlock on Death, Watts' world to come, Rollin's "...John Cole William SherlockMeditations and A practical discourse concerning d...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William SherlockA Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and EverPrint: Book
1700-1799[in April 1792 Larpent read] 'Smellie's "Philosophy of Nature" [sic] which she considered poorly organized but of sufficient value to transcribe extracts for her children...Anna Larpent William SmelliePhilosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Elements of Morality and Smellie'.Mary Godwin William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening finishes it. Write Greek -- Read Smellie.' ...Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Sept. 25th. [...] Read Smellie Philosophy [o]f Natural History.' Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Sept. 26th. Read the Empire of the Nairs & Smellie.' Claire Clairmont William SmellieThe Philosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book


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