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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
 
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819: 'I had Crabbe's tales with me on shipboard, and they were a treasure. I never was so much taken with anything. The t...John Wilson Croker CrabbeTalesPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of two lines 'Do not slay him who deserves alone/ A whipping for the fault that he has done. Creec... Creech'Do not slay him...'Unknown
1900-1945'After carrying out psychic research and reading reports and hypotheses by Lodge, Crookes, J.A. Findlay etc. I know to my own satisfaction that death is a mere passing on... CrookesunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'.George Eliot [pseud.] CummingunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Dear Dr. Prothero, Are you reading Curtin's articles in the Times? I have followed every one of them very carefully, and I must admit I started reading them with some an...J.M. de Beaufort CurtinThe Times (series of articles)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899Harriet Martineau to Mrs F. G. Shaw, 17 July 1874: 'I wish to send you my thanks [...] for sending me what I so much wished to see as Mr. Curtis's "Eulogy" on his friend ...Harriet Martineau CurtisEulogy on Charles SumnerUnknown
1850-1899'In the beginning of September [1892], though feeling very ill, my father looked over a book of poems at the earnest entreaty of a stranger, Mr Dalmon, and made one or tw...Alfred Tennyson DalmonpoemsPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Edward Fitzgerald to Emily Tennyson [1862], in reponse to request for information on fishing and fishermen (as background for writing of Alfred Tennyson's), and after var...Edward Fitzgerald DampierVoyagesPrint: Book
1800-1849Professor W. T. Brande to John Murray, 2 January 1826: 'Sir H. Davy [...] is extremely sore at Mr. Daniell's paper which appeared in late numbers of [of "Brande's Jour...Sir Humphry Davy DaniellpaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler DanteLa Divina CommediaPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'...Thomas Carter Dante AlighieriThe Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and ParadisePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the morning a little "Inferno". James's "Washington Square" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] "Fumée"; but Russian books are always a slight effort t...Ronald Storrs Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the morning to Santa Maria where we looked at the Spanish Chapel with Ruskin.[...] In the afternoon poked about in the back streets behind the Duomo which are all fu...Gertrude Bell Dante Alighieri?La Divina CommediaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read some of the Farinata Canto [Canto 10 of "La Divina Commedia"]' Gertrude Bell Dante AlighieriLa Divina Commedia Print: Book
1850-1899'Round by San Vitale and Galla Placidia's tomb — such a dark beautiful blue in the morning light and home to the hotel where we met Mr Hogarth who took us to the Library ...Gertrude Bell Dante AlighieriLa Divina Commedia (Canto V)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945' We shall go to Kish on the way back and if only the weather is nice it will be delightful. It has been raining in such torrents that I hope we may have a dry spell for ...Gertrude Bell Dante AlighieriLa Divina CommediaPrint: Book
1900-1945Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark Dante Alighieri[unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron this summer, & Davis's Second Tour round a Bibliomaniac's Library.' John Cole DavidSecond tour round a Bibliomaniac's libraryPrint: Book
1700-1799" Read Davila." "Read...and Davila"Lady Eleanor Butler Davila? [ History of the French Civil Wars]Unknown
1700-1799" Read Davila." "Read...and Davila"Lady Eleanor Butler Davila? [ History of the French Civil Wars]Unknown


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