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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[3 July 1797] 'brought the 2nd vol of the "Antiquarian Repertory"; I had read it before but there was a picture in it I wished to draw. [4 July 1797] I drew out of the "...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Antiquarian Repertory [Vol II of 4 vols]Print: Book
1700-1799'about this time I began to practis accounts, I bought a Book, & Slate, and got somebody to set me a gate at the beginning of a Rule, & then wrought by my book &c, and in...Benjamin Shaw [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'god was Merciful & spoke Peace to my Soul, & now I found that with god which Passeth all understanding, & rejoiced all the day long, & saw everything in a new light ... ...Benjamin Shaw [n/a]Bible ['the scriptures']Print: Book
1700-1799'[regarding a poetry contest with his brother William, himself and another, Hogg says of William's poem] it was far superior to either of the other two in the sublimity o...James Hogg William Hogg'Urania's Tour'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'transcript of passages from chapter 4 under the commonplce book heading "non jurors"'John Fortescue Aland Nathaniel MarshallA defence of our constitution in church and stateUnknown
1700-1799'We had much talk among us of Chatterton, &, as he was best known in this part of the world, I attended particularly to the opinion of Dr. Harrington concerning him; & th...Henry Harington Thomas ChattertonThe Rowley poemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'. . . but I am going to the Library immediately for the Book, -though I assure you I read it all when it first came out,-. . .'Anna Maria Lawes Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1700-1799'. . . Mrs Kynaston, good humouredly ,called out -"I'm sure, Ladies, I am very glad to see you so merry, - ah - one of you young ladies, - I don't say which, has given me...Victoria Kynaston Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Half a page in praise of Evenings, beginning:] 'No one can be so injudicious, or so unjust, as to class the excellent "Evenings at Home" amongst books of mere entertainm...Maria Edgeworth John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1700-1799'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathetic passages, and natural dialogues in "Evenings at H...[ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1700-1799'Several children, who were reading "Evenings at Home", observed that in the story of Juliet and the fairy order...' [ the children comment on the story].[ a group of children known to Maria EdgeworthJohn AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1700-1799'S----was reading in "Evenings at Home" the story of "A Friend in need is a Friend Indeed" ...[when he commented on the word choice in a certain sentence].'John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1700-1799'There is a slight attempt at the kind of composition we mean, in a little trial in "Evenings at Home"; and we have seen children read it with great avidity.'[children known to Maria Edgeworth]John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1700-1799'The first books which are now usually put into the hands of a child are Mrs. Barbauld's "Lessons"; they are by far the best books of the kind that have ever appeared.' (...Maria Edgeworth Anna Letitia Barbauld (nee Aikin)Early Lessons for ChildrenPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter from Maria Edgeworth to A.L.Barbauld, dated 26/2/1806, tells about this younger brother, who has just left the 'College of Dublin' and 'he has just finished a poem...C.S. Edgeworth John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1700-1799Letter xiv- "On Buffon's natural history" is a critique of the workJohn Aikin Georges-Louis Leclerc BuffonHistoire NaturellePrint: Book
1700-1799'By some one of these publications, but most probably from the last-mentioned [i.e. Withering], Mr.Aikin was inspired with a taste for this delightful study...'John Aikin Dr. WitheringBotanical description of British PlantsPrint: Book
1700-1799Writing to his sister, Aikin comments on Knox: 'His great fault, I think, is setting out with too confined a view of the ends of education, which must be as various as si...John Aikin Knox[on education]Unknown
1700-1799'How pleasing Atterbury's softer hour! How shin'd the Soul unconquer'd in the Tower!' Pope. Frances Hamilton R. Atterbury (Bishop of Rochester)The Epistolacy Correspondence. Speeches and Miscel...Print: Book
1700-1799The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition. 'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the death of Mr Garrick. A Ballad. Subject Love [underlined]...Frances Hamilton [unknown]Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately DeceasedPrint: Book


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