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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 Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first book of the Aeneid were all of Virgil that I transl...John Wilson Croker Virgil Aeneid IPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870: 'March 1st. Aldworth. Hallam read the 4th Aeneid with A.; they study Virgil together daily.'Alfred and Hallam TennysonVirgil Aeneid IVPrint: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred Tennyson Virgil Aeneid VIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneid [?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished the "Aeneid". Virgil's excellence, it is obvious, consists, not in the daring flights of a vigorous and sublime imagination, but in the exquitie art and consum...Thomas Green VirgilAeniedPrint: Book
1850-1899'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my want, among the second-hand bookstalls in Newcastle ...Thomas Burt John MiltonAeropagiticaPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home and read to my wife a Fable or two in Ogleby's "Aesop"; and so to supper and then to prayers and to bed'Samuel Pepys AesopAesop's FablesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829: 'I return Heliodorus, -- & [italics]keep[end italics] many pleasant recollections of him. The lamentation of Charic...Elizabeth Barrett Heliodorus AethiopicaPrint: Book
1850-1899'You should get hold of Havelock Ellis?s new book Affirmations. It is all good; and there is an essay on Huysmans that I have found very inspiring indeed.' Arnold Bennett Henry Havelock EllisAffirmationsPrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


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Howard L. Sikes Julian HuxleyAfrica ViewPrint: 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 Philip BeaverAfrican memoranda relative to an attempt to establ...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 12 May 1811: 'We have had no leisure for reading. I have not opened a Book except on a Sunday, and when the rest of the family ...Dorothy Wordsworth Philip BeaverAfrican Memoranda: relative to an attempt to estab...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas PringleAfrican SketchesPrint: Book
1900-1945'All these sketches have the quality without which neither beauty, nor I am afraid, truth, are effective, that is they are interesting in themselves. I've spent all yeste...Joseph Conrad Helen Sanderson (pseud. 'Janet Allardyce')African Sketches and Impressions Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Brigadier General Sir Charles Crewe ... came in to inspect the Hospital. The General was so nice. He had diligently read up the literature on Uganda, Bp. Tucker's book, ...Charles Preston Crewe Alfred Robert TuckerAfrican Sketches, or, Uganda and the Way ThitherPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'I wrote yesterday to P[erceval] G[ibbon] about his "Afrikander Memories". I didn't quite tell him how good they are for fear he should think I was gushing. But really, i...Joseph Conrad Reginald Perceval GibbonAfrikander MemoriesPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Has Eliot, for example, not returned from the "Waste Land" back to a more dogmatic climate - his latest book, "After Strange Gods", is almost priggish in tone; and sligh...William Soutar T.S. EliotAfter Strange GodsPrint: Book
1900-1945"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorses many of the volumes in his collection of books about spiritualism and parapsychological experience with a signed note on the title page: ...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle L. Margery BazettAfter-Death CommunicationsPrint: Book
1800-1849Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in...William Wordsworth Sneyd DaviesAgainst Indolence. An EpistlePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her grea...Mary Augusta Ward AeschylusAgamemnonPrint: Book


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