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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
 
1700-1799John Playfair to Mary Berry, 8 May 1796: 'I have lately seen a posthumous work of Condorcet's; it is a very curious book, full of false views and unsound principles, ming...John Playfair Condorcet[unidentified posthumously-published work]Print: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and bet...Mary Berry Condorcet[book including discussion on population]Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday March 26th [...] Begin Condorcet's Life of Voltaire [goes on to note anecdote from this]'.Claire Clairmont CondorcetVie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Volta...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday March 29th [...] Read Condorcet's Life of Voltaire. [...] 'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish the Life of Voltaire by Condorcet.'Claire Clairmont CondorcetVie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Volta...Print: Book
1700-1799'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made a very deep and lasting impression in my mind. By re...James Lackington ConfuciusvariousPrint: Book
1850-18991 December 1884, from Canford: 'While Enid [daughter] was here she spent a good deal of time making a miniature drawing in water colours of one of the fine pictures ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber CookeMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 14 January 1828: 'I read Cooper's new novel work, the Red Rover; the current of the [novel] rolls entirely upon the Ocean. Something there is too much of nauti...Walter Scott CooperRed RoverPrint: Book
1850-1899'In 1885 he [Tennyson] came across Amiel's Journal Intime, and thought his criticisms on Hugo and literature in general good; but that the Journal throughout was too morb...Alfred Tennyson CoppeepoemsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler CorneilleTheatro du Grand CorneillesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So to the Custome-house; and there with great threats got a couple [watermen] to carry me down to Deptford, all the way reading "Pompey the Great" (a play translated fro...Samuel Pepys CorneillePompee: Pompey the Great, a tragedy. As it was act...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of C...Mountstuart Elphinstone Cowley[Poems]Print: Book
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1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood Cowper Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer ...Alfred Tennyson Cowper'Poplar Field'Unknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer ...Alfred Tennyson Cowper'stanzas to Mary Unwin'Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (September 1804): 'My sister and I finished the 3rd volume of Cowper yesterday. I am enthusiasti...Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth Cowper Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 15 October 1804: 'We have finished Cowper and have begun to read Charles the Vth.'Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth Cowper Print: Book
1800-1849'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbours and tenants, with a friendly finger ready to stick...Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke Cowper Print: Book
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1800-1849		'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; b...Jane Austen Cowper Print: Book
1800-1849The Hon. James Abercrombie to Mary Berry, 5 January 1820: 'I am reading Coxe's "Life of Marlborough;" the subject, in spite of the dulness and want of capacity in the wri...The Hon. James Abercrombie CoxeLife of MarlboroughPrint: Book
1800-1849Aubrey de Vere on Tennyson's second visit to Ireland, as his guest, during 1848: 'In the evenings he had vocal music from Lady de Vere and her sister, and Sonatas of M...Alfred Tennyson Crabbe'A Sorrowful Tale'Print: Book


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