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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
 
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Cha...Lady Harriet Cavendish Clarendon Print: Book
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...anon ClarkLives of PiratesPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers collected into volume by library?
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, Sunday 14 October 1810, on stay in Greathead household at Guy's Cliff: '[After church attendance] The blind Miss Williams played much of Handel's mus...Mr Greathead ClarkeTravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too were our companion.'John Cole ClarkeLake of TiberiasPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy ...Mary Shelley ClarkeTravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'A gentleman, by no means deficient in literature, having discovered less acquaintance with one of t...Samuel Johnson ClenardusGreek GrammarPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'A gentleman, by no means deficient in literature, having discovered less acquaintance with one of t...Bennet Langton ClenardusGreek GrammarPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making another, and advise you to buy Count Rumford's Essays...[Mrs] Beach CleryJournalPrint: Book
1700-1799'You should read Cle account of the treatment of Louis 16th; it is well written'. [words in <> obliterated by water]Sydney Smith CleryJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read a pamphlet of Cockburn's; rather good'.Sydney Smith Cockburn[pamphlet]Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 6 November 1862: 'I suppose you have read Colenso's book. It is certainly singular to see a bishop applying the historical principles of S...George Grote Colenso Print: Book
1900-1945'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her....Katherine Mansfield ColetteL'EntravePrint: Book
1900-1945'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her....Katherine Mansfield ColetteL'EntravePrint: Book
1850-1899'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose "Caesar" I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Joh...Margaret Oliphant CollinsunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo...Frances Power Cobbe Collins Print: Book
1700-1799?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan, Collins, Woolston, Annet, Mandeville, Shaftesbury, ...James Lackington CollinsunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [?my father?] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circumstances, struggling against difficulties and overcom...John Stuart Mill Collins[account of the first settlement of New South Wale...Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.October 1835, regarding possible visit to him: 'Don't expect [...] to find me improved in anything -- albeit I [italics]have[e...Elizabeth Barrett Collinswork 'upon necessity'Print: Book
1800-1849George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40): 'Have you read Comte's "Traite de Philosophie Positive," of which a third volume has just been published? It seem...George Grote ComteTraite de Philosophie Positive (vol. 3)Print: Book
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c...Rosamond Lehmann Comtesse de SegurLes Petites Filles Mod?lesPrint: Book


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