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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'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.Percy Bysshe Shelley ArrianAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.Percy Bysshe Shelley ArrianHistoria IndicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Arrian's Historia Indicae [sic]'Percy Bysshe Shelley ArrianHistoria IndicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay AthenaeusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Athenaeus Print: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley AthenaeusDeipnosophistaiPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Aulus Gellius Print: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday Badams wrote me (from admist the 'wild beasts of Ephesus,' as he calls the new Mining Companies, with whom he is in constant treaty about some important smelti...Thomas Carlyle BadamsLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'He has written to me twice since his departure; he insists that I shall take a little pony of his with all its furniture; ride home on it thro' the Peak country in Derby...Thomas Carlyle BadamsLetterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'My Father possessed a copy of Bailey's "Etymological Dictionary", a book published early in the eighteenth century. Over this I would pore for hours, playing with the wo...Edmund Gosse Bailey (ed.)Etymological DictionaryPrint: Book
1850-1899George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868: 'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the September number of the "Fortnightly," seeing by the adverti...George Grote BainarticlePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening I amused myself by reading "Cast up from the Sea" a book written by Mr Baker the Explorer. It served well to wile away a couple of hours'John Buckley Castieau BakerCast up from the seaPrint: Book
1900-1945'...he continued to . . . reassess his first loves, such as Balzac, whom he begins to doubt: in May 1926 he finds him "thin and tedious", says he will try "Splendeurs et ...Arnold Bennett Balzac Print: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale BancroftThe American RevolutionPrint: Book
Mary Berry, Journal, 30 June 1808: 'In the evening I read "Barillon's Letters" in Mr. Fox's Appendix.'Mary Berry BarillonLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebastien Mercier's comedy "Mon Bonnet de Nuit", and the B...Mary Wollstonecraft Baroness de MontoliereCaroline de LitchfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Barrie Print: Unknown
1800-1849I am so delighted with Barrow?s note on the qualities of Tobacco (communicated by Harfield) that I can think of nothing else.Charles Dickens Barrow[note on the qualities of tobacco]Print: Unknown, possibly appeared in newspaper The Morning Chronicle
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her brother, the Marquis of Hartington (b. 1790), 1 February 1809: 'How surprized Barrow's sermons must have been upon first opening to see y...William Spencer Cavendish and 'Sir William' BarrowSermonsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mon. Very few letters. None for me. All well. Read Naval Occasions by Bartimeus. V Good.'William Thomas Bartimeus (pseud.)Naval Occasions and Some Traits of the Sailor-ManPrint: Book


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