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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
 
1900-1945A volume of sermons, marked with dates and what appears to be a system of initials - possibly some sort of reminder? Examples: [Sermon 1.] "SSC [?] 15 Jan 1922 & M.../ SS...James Walker Harper Fidelis, pseud.Thirty short addresses for family prayers or cotta...Print: Book
1900-1945'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [italics] Little town in France [end italics] began by be...Antonia White Field[book on child psychology]Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Eliazbeth Carter, 29 February 1751: 'Indeed one is terrified at the growing profligacy of the age [...] Have you read Fielding's excellent, incompara...Catherine Talbot Fielding[?The] PatriotPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had a great deal of trouble at the office), being a bit...Samuel Pepys Fields[petition]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had a great deal of trouble at the office), being a bit...Sir William Penn Fields[petition]Manuscript: Sheet
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1800-1849		Uvedale Price to Mary Berry,18 December 1813, discussing the importance of association and the physical senses in aesthetics: 'Fitzpatrick, in that exquisite poem I once ...Uvedale Price Fitzpatrick[metaphysical] poemUnknown
1850-1899'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'Robert Louis Stevenson FletcherunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday March 17th. [...] Read [...] the Play of Beggar's Bush.'Claire Clairmont Fletcher (?and Massinger)The Beggar's BushPrint: Book
1850-1899'Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of Cuvier's labours.'George Eliot (pseud) Flouren[probably Eloge Historique de Baron Cuvier]Print: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 6 January 1827: 'In the evening read Foote's farce of the Commissary, said to have been levelled at Sir Laurence Dundas.'Walter Scott FooteThe CommissaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 14 November 1807: 'Miss Trimmer [former governess and companion] went out of town yesterday morning and I...Georgiana, Countess Dowager Spencer and Lady Harriet Cavendish ForbesLife of BeattiePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'George Eliot [pseud] Foster[on nervous mechanism]Print: Book
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's Diary, 3 October 1834: 'I happened to mention the profuse fabrication of French Memoires, and instanced those of Fouche; the Duke said: "I da...Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington FoucheMemoiresPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All this and Heaven Too" ....I must say I can't read no... FrankauRoyal RegimentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have also read diligently, not without many wry faces - and ...John Mitchel Frazer (ed.)[Persia]Print: Book
1850-18997 December 1879: 'I was a little chilly in the morning [...] and I feared I had taken cold, so I did not go out. Read over the fire. First Freeman's account of the Bay...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Freeman'account of the Bayeux tapestry'Print: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1874): 'Lately we have been reading Holinshed and Froude's Mary, for A. has been thinking about a play of "Queen Mary," and has sketched...Alfred and Emily Tennyson Froude"Mary"Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the end of Froude's "Carlyle" last night, thankful that in general I make the people about me happy.' John Ruskin FroudeCarlylePrint: 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 Froudelife of Thomas CarlylePrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . he was reading Gaboriau's detective fiction enthusiastically at this time, and makes several polite acknowledgements to him in the text itself, as well as in his j...Arnold Bennett Gaboriau[detective fiction]Print: Book


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