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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
 
1900-1945Wednesday 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
1800-1849'S goes to Egham - he reads Aeschylus and tavels in the kingdom of Caubul - read Rasselas - make jellies and work'Percy Bysshe Shelley Mountstuart ElphinstoneAccount of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependenc...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Mountstuart ElphinstoneAccount of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependenc...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song...Samuel Bamford anonAccount of the Lancashire witchesPrint: Book
1800-1849'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidity, that nothing could be said of it but what was gr...Sydney Smith Robert Ker PorterAccount of the Last Russian CampaignPrint: Book
1800-1849'We are reading Barretti's other book, & find him dreadfully abusive of poor Mr Sharpe.'Jane Austen Joseph BarettiAccount of the Manners and Customs of ItalyPrint: Book
1700-1799'He praised Signor Baretti. "His account of Italy is a very entertaining book; and, Sir, I know no man who carries his head higher in conversation than Baretti. There are...Samuel Johnson Joseph BarettiAccount of the Manners and Customs of Italy; with ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Customs of the Ancient Egyptians; - It is, Lane's Manners...Sarah Harriet Burney Edward William LaneAccount of the manners and customs of the Modern E...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction. ...George Gordon Lord Byron accountsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 31 December 1846: 'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Aliso...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Alisonaccounts of Napoleon's battlesPrint: Unknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'Accounts of the deaths of Jan Huss and Jerome of Prague'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John FoxeAccounts of the deaths of Jan Huss and Jerome of P...Print: Book
1800-1849E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put o...Priscilla Gurney [unknown]Accounts of the MissionsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "... I have just read the last page of the sweet collection of some of your happiest lucubrations put forth by the c...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonAcross the PlainsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford John Peale BishopAct of DarknessPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Acta Seminarii Regii et Societatis Philologicae LiPrint: Book
1800-1849'First oration of Verres. Hist of Engd.'Mary Shelley CiceroActio prima in VerremPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding unknownActor, Soldier, PoetPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'It puts me in mind of the account of St Paul's Shipwreck, where all are said by different means to reach the Shore in safety.'Jane Austen Acts 27:44Print: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth] read the copy [of John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable] preserved today in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library ..."William Wordsworth John FoxeActs and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Mem...Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [garage], & then home, & read St Paul & the papers [....Virginia Woolf Acts of the ApostlesPrint: Book


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