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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
 
1700-1799[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1749: 'I return you my thanks for the play you sent me; and by what I have read of it, I think Mr Garrick is very much...J[?ane] Collier 'play'Unknown
1700-1799[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 4 October 1748: 'I have been further considering of that part in Mrs Fielding's proof, which relates to Mrs. Teachum's method o...J[?ane] Collier Sarah FieldingThe GovernessPrint: Unknown, In proof
1800-1849[Monday 23 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & State [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1700-1799[Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives a Man the Air of a Politician, for the same Reason ...George Rooke [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799[Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives a Man the Air of a Politician, for the same Reason ...George Rooke [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799[Mr Rooke tells LP] 'as I had, in the Shop, read your [italics] Apology for the Minister [end italics], I was greatly surprized to hear it was the Product of a Lady's Pen...George Rooke Laetitia PilkingtonApology for the Minister, AnPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799[Mrs] A. Dewes to Samuel Richardson, 24 September 1750: '[My sister] and the Dean both have the highest regard for you and all your works. I rejoice at every addition ...'[Mrs A. Dewes's] sister and the Dean'Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1900-1945[Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Idols' and 'Ecce Homo', to ignore the fact that they w...Edwin Muir Friedrich NietzscheThe Twilight of the IdolsPrint: Book
1900-1945[Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Idols' and 'Ecce Homo', to ignore the fact that they w...Edwin Muir Friedrich NietzscheEcce HomoPrint: Book
1700-1799[note in diary upon finishing Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae"]: 'As far as I am a Judge I think this work very well understood. The author is master on his subject & ha...Anna Larpent James MackintoshVindiciae GalliciaePrint: Book
1900-1945[on bike, visiting friends] 'Learnt "Jabberwocky" on the way! Passers by must have thought me mad, book in one hand, bike handle in other, sailing down hill saying in lou...Hilary Spalding Lewis CarrollJabberwockyPrint: Book
1850-1899[On blank recto flyleaf at the beginning of the volume:] 'My Dear Brown,/ Here it is, with the mark of a San Francisco BOUQUINISTE. And if ever in all my "human conduct" ...Robert Louis Stevenson William PennFruits of SolitudePrint: Book
1800-1849[On hot summer afternoons Carter took shelter in the shaded parts of Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens] 'In the latter I remember to have passed one afternoon in a very ple...Thomas Carter James BeattieThe Minstrel, or the Progress of GeniusPrint: Book
1700-1799[On New Year's Day, 1743, LP published verses in the 'Gazette' in honour of Colley Cibber] 'My dear old Friend was pleased with my Sense of his Goodness to me; only he to...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Colley Cibber, esq.Print: Newspaper
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesThomas Hobbes Print: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesJohn Locke Print: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesGeorge Berkeley Print: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The Apostles Butler Print: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesDavid Hume Print: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesJeremy Bentham Print: Book


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