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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
 
1900-194515 February 1922: 'I thought to myself, as Lytton was talking, Now I will remember this & write it down in my diary tomorrow [...] "Latest Racine" he had read on the post...Lytton Strachey anonadvertisement/announcement on racingPrint: Poster
1900-1945Monday 20 May 1935: 'Quentin bought an Italian paper & read of [T. E.] Lawrence's death.' Quentin Bell anonreport of death of T. E. LawrencePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear friend Cunninghame the author of The Cameronians Surely ...James Hogg anonBlackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anon. political a...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Wednesday 1 January 1941: 'On Sunday night, as I was reading about the great fire, in a very accurate detailed book, London was burning. 8 of my city churches destroyed, ...Virginia Woolf anonaccount of the Great Fire of LondonPrint: Book
1600-1699'My heart was inclined to love and honour my father, especially when, by reading the history of China, I found that they bore more respect to their parents than any natio...Isaac Archer anonThe Historie of ChinaPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, (anon) 'An Hymne to our Redeemer'. Copied in spaces between other entries in the commonplace book. Lyttelton signals the conti...Elizabeth Lyttelton anonAn Hymne to our RedeemerUnknown
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, 'Distich from a monument to Elizabeth I in Allhallows the Great, Thames Street, London'. Elizabeth Lyttelton anonDistich from a monument to Elizabeth I in Allhallo...Print: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, an anonymous poem entitled 'An Euening Hymn' and beginning 'Now that the Sable mantle of the night....' Elizabeth Lyttelton anonAn Evening HymnPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, an anonymous 'Moral dialogue'.Elizabeth Lyttelton anonMoral DialoguePrint: Book
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1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton anonHistory of the Life of Monsieur d'EpernonPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'An Epitaph upon Felton, who was hang'd in Chains for murdering the Old Duke of Buckingham'.Elizabeth Lyttelton AnonAn Epitaph upon Felton, who was hang'd in Chains f...Print: Book
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'A Turkish Prayer or Alhemdolilla'.Elizabeth Lyttelton AnonA Turkish Prayer or AlhemdolillaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Look here, my fame is even more complete than I had dreamed of. Get the "Spectators" for August 5th and 12th; and you will see how the poor Spectatorists were puzzled an...Robert Louis Stevenson anonReview article; and 'Husbands and Wives'.Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Curious beginning of an alchemistical receipt. “In the name of God! take an urinal".' Robert Southey anon"alchemical receipt"Print: BookUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & generally, feeling. I should have thought Camoens defici...Robert Southey anonSpanish BalladsPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I begin to think that our opinions upon poetry are not consonant. I am no friend to the harmony with whi...Robert Southey anonReview of Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recoverin...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I begin to think that our opinions upon poetry are not consonant. I am no friend to the harmony with whi...Robert Southey anonReview of Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recoverin...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to John James Morgan, 6 March, 1797: 'My mornings are devoted to Law; I allow the evening for pleasanter employments & divide it between the German Gramma...Robert Southey anonGerman GrammarPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 16 March, 1797: 'We have been here now nearly a month. I read much Law — & find time to write. for company I have neither leisu[re or MS...Robert Southey anonLaw booksPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 September 1797: 'I much want the latter books of Amadis, subsequent to those which Tressan has abridged & prior to Ama...Robert Southey anonPalmerin of England Print: Book


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