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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
 
1700-1799'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on Monday the 15th began making a planetorium upon a st...John Marsh John BonnycastleAn introduction to astronomyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della rivoluzione di Napoli [sic] [makes notes on this]'. ...Claire Clairmont William NicholsonAn Introduction to Natural PhilosophyPrint: Book
1850-1899J. H. Ewing's diary entry, April 10 1869: 'Goulburn's Study of the Holy Scriptures'Juliana Horatia Ewing Edward Meyrick GoulburnAn Introduction to the Devotional Study of the Hol...Print: Book
1900-1945'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she prese...Janet Penrose Ward Adolf JulicherAn Introduction to the New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she prese...Mary Augusta Ward Adolf JulicherAn Introduction to the New TestamentPrint: Unknown, page proofs
1900-1945'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she prese...Mary Augusta Ward Adolf JulicherAn Introduction to the New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 December 1843: 'I have read in Baron Dupotet's & Dr Stone's book upon Mesmerism, that in cases of the chest, it will not av...Elizabeth Barrett Baron Jean du Potet de SennevoyAn Introduction to the Study of Animal Magnetism ....Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished Hurd's "Lectures on the Prophecies"...'Thomas Green Richard HurdAn introduction to the study of the propheciesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read with much interest, in a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, an "Introduction to the Theory of the Human Mind", by J. Usher, author of Clio....'Thomas Green James UssherAn introduction to the theory of the human mindPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge James HuttonAn Investigation of the Principles of KnowledgePrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E...		Victor Alexander Ross and SomervilleAn Irish R.M.Print: Book
1800-1849'An Italian Song / Rogers' [transcription of poem]Mary Groom Samuel RogersAn Italian SongUnknown
1700-1799"[in 29.10.1828 letter to Alexander Dyce] ... W[ordsworth] recalls that 'in 1788 the Ode was first printed from Dr Carlyle's copy, with Mr Mackenzie's supplemental lines ...William Wordsworth William CollinsAn Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlan...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall on printed matter, so long denied us by our own wri...Leonard Woolf Arnold BennettAn Old Wives TalePrint: Book
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1600-1699		'An annotated copy of John Hart's "Orthographie" which undoubtedly belonged to [Gabriel] Harvey [...] is replete with his comments on spellings and punctuations [...] On ...Gabriel Harvey John HartAn OrthographiePrint: Book
1800-1849"[Mark L.] Reed [in Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Middle Years, 1975] judges that [S. T.] C[oleridge] copied this poem ['An unfortunate Mother to her infant at her Br...Samuel Taylor Coleridge An unfortunate Mother to the infant at her BreastUnknown
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent George Bernard ShawAn Unsocial SocialistPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835'Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837' Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'.Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book


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