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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[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund Burke [anon.]A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Edmund BurkeA Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter...
1700-1799Read 'A True Estemate of Human Life' by Mr Young, a Sermon preach'd in St George's Church upon the King's death. Extreordinary stile. Poeticall, exceeding entertaining.Gertrude Savile Edward YoungA Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate oPrint: Book
1700-1799Aunt had the coach at 5 to visit. I drank tea and read Mr Young's sermon. Mrs D'Enly went when the coach came back with Aunt near 10.Gertrude Savile Edward YoungA Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate oPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read part of Young's "Estimate of Human Life".'Thomas Turner Edward YoungA vindication of providence; or, a true estimate o...Print: Book
1600-1699'And so walk and by water to White-hall, all our way by water, both coming and going, reading a little book said to be writ by a person of Quality concerning English Gent...Samuel Pepys [unknown]A vindication of the degree of gentry in oppositio...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William SherlockA Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and EverPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the rights of Woman, am become a convert think dissipation great folly & shall remain the whole year discreetly & quietly in the Country.'Caroline Lamb Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'[L]ittle else travels down to me my Cousins & Virtuous friends not being over addicted to scribbling--do not think I put you in the other class [...] it is only an appel...Lady Caroline Lamb Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday May 29th. [...] Read Rights of Woman.' [records of readings from this text also appear in entries for 31 May, and 1, 2, 3 June 1820, with 'Finish [...] Right...Claire Clairmont Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1842: 'I read Mary Wolstonecraft [sic] when I was thirteen: no, twelve! .. and, through the whole course of my chi...Elizabeth Barrett Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844: 'I used to read Mary Wolstonecraft [sic], (the "Rights of woman",) .. when I was twelve years old [...] He...Elizabeth Barrett Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Katherine Phillips, 'A Virgin'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Katherine PhillipsA VirginPrint: Book
1800-1849'A Vision The Night-Mare came to my silent bed... Miss Porter'Bowly groupAnna Maria PorterA VisionUnknown
1800-1849‘Have you seen Southey’s Vision of Judgement!!!!! O Tempora, O Mores – And is it come to this? And our dear good mother gave me such a hint to praise in her last letter...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheyA Vision of JudgementPrint: Unknown
1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & think it a pretty book. A few children of six years o...Moulton-Barrett family (children)S. W.A Visit to a Farm-housePrint: Book
1900-1945'Very stuffy and hot though the temp. only 83. Played Bridge with Mrs Foster and Mr Grier and read Worsfeld's [sic] book on Java.' Gertrude Bell W. Basil WorsfoldA visit to Java: with an account of the founding o...Print: Book
1900-1945'And woke at 7 [she had been sleeping on deck] — no nonsense about swabbing down the decks here! Very hot and steaming and the smell downstairs appalling. Read the ...Gertrude Bell Sara Jeannette Duncan (Mrs Cotes)A Voyage of ConsolationPrint: Book
1700-1799'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgeworth - [italics] Edgeworth on Practical Education [end ...Sydney Smith George VancouverA Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean A...Print: Book
1800-1849'Since they filled those gaps [in historical and geographical knowledge], classic travel books could produce the same kind of epiphanies as other classic literature. Anso...Alexander Somerville George AnsonA Voyage Round the WorldPrint: Book, Serial / periodical


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