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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
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William SteeleMr Recorder's Speech to the Lord ProtectorPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Swan's note was extremely good.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Swan'Lighthouses' Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's w...James Glass Bertram William TaitTait's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who wanted Johnson's opinions on his literary works]; u...Samuel Johnson William TaskerOde to the Warlike Genius of BritainManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'But the other ballad of Bürger in the M. Magazine is most excellent. I know no commendation equal to ...Robert Southey William TaylorLenoraPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet until it falls asle...Katherine Mansfield William TempleMiscellaneaPrint: Book
1600-1699'As long as your last [letter] was, I read it over thrice in less then an hower, though to say truth I skipt some on't the last time, I could not read my owne confession ...Dorothy Osborne William Temple[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a senten...Samuel Johnson William Temple Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under ...Rosamund Wallis William Temple[on gardens]Print: Book
1800-1849'Pray have you seen a poem that was published last year entitled "Anster Fair" I am vexed that it has never been noticed for their [sic] is a strength of mind and a [TEA...James Hogg William TenantAnster FairPrint: Book
1800-1849'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original production that ever this country gave birth to and another ...James Hogg William TenantAnster FairPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: two ms items: (1) A full page sketch entitled "Indian Recreations" - a play on the title? It appears to show a rather crumpled East India Company employee, ...John Drummond Erskine William TennantIndian recreations: consisting of strictures on th...Print: Book
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1850-1899		?Of course, it is true that English writers ? Thackeray conspicuously so ? are injured by being cramped as to love in its various manifestations? Consequently within give...Leslie Stephen William Thackeray Print: Book
1850-1899?We even formed a magazine club ? purchasing periodicals, reading them in turn, and then distributing them among the members. Thackeray?s "Virginians" and Dickens?s "Litt...William Adams and colleagues at the office of the 'Illustrated Times'William ThackerayVirginiansPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newcomes" by Thackeray "Stuart of Dunleath" by Mrs Norton...Albert Battiscombe William ThackerayThe Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable familyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading the "English humourists" by Thackeray'Albert Battiscombe William ThackerayThe English Humourists of the Eighteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Newcomes'Sarah Good William ThackerayThe Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable FamilyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pendennis'Sarah Good William ThackerayThe History of PendennisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Once Laura had the honour of choosing two passages for the father of one of her friends, who had been invited to read and could not, as he said, think of anything likely...Flora Thompson William ThackeryVanity FairPrint: Book
1800-1849'I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament. Of course I am no judge of his 'new renderings'; but the stile both...Thomas Carlyle William ThomsonThe New Testament. Translated from the Greek, 3 vo...Print: Book


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