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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[Robert Browning] 'published a sort of poem called Bells & Pomegranates in wh. there is no meaning at all.'Caroline Clive Robert BrowningBells and PomegranatesPrint: Book
1900-1945[Rosamond Lehmann wrote in her memoir, "Swan at Evening"] "I took down and re-read "The Four Quartets", the sublime, unhopeful, consoling cluster of poems; and discovered...Rosamond Lehmann Thomas Stearns EliotThe Four QuartetsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Sarah Scudamore (nee Westcomb) to Samuel Richardson, 12 March 1758:] 'I've lately read over my oracle (Pamela) again, and already made use of some of Mr Locke's maxim...Sarah Scudamore Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Sat 28 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Saturday 21 November 1840]. [...] read Clarendon- Burnet - worked on Ch. & State [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Thomas MalthusEssay on PopulationPrint: Book
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Xenophon[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Tacitus[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Virgil[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Walter Scott 
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Robert Southey 
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Constantin VolneyLes ruinesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Thomas PaineThe Rights of ManPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Thomas PaineThe Age of ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook James LawrenceThe Empire of the NairsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Mary WollstonecraftVindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley] 'Reads the ancient mariner to us'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRhyme of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1850-1899[Signature] R.L.H. Stevenson 'You don’t know what H. means, ha? I have been reading Nym; and that’s the humour of it.' Robert Louis Stevenson William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1800-1849[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'By the middle of March 1831, I had completed the first volume, amounting to above f...Charles Manby Smith Dr D[manuscript of his book]Manuscript: manuscript of book


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