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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
 
1900-1945'Cummings in for dinner and another from No 1 [squadron]. Read and talked ... after dinner. Bed at 11 — slept excellently.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.'John Ruskin [unknown]WitnessPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Curious essay of Newman's I read some pages of - about the ecclesiastical miracles; full of intellect but doubtful in tendency. I fear insidious, yet I like it.'John Ruskin John Henry NewmanEssay on the miracles recorded in Ecclesiastical H...Print: Book
1900-1945'Curiously enough I arrived at this result by the aid of an R. C. book, called "The Spiritual Combat". The motto of many of the chapters might be written: "Attack all y...Donald William Alers Hankey Dom Lorenzo ScupoliThe Spiritual CombatPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac issues by "The Orkney Herald". It was an account of th...Edwin Muir [unknown][story about the origin of Orkney and Shetland Isl...Print: Serial / periodical, almanac
1800-1849'C[oleridge] consulted ... [the Weekly Political Register] while working on the Friend ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge William CobbettWeekly Political Register, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'C[oleridge] had read the Essay [on the Principle of Population] shortly after its first appearance in 1798.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Robert MalthusEssay on the Principle of Population, AnPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read ... [George Carleton, Memoirs] in April [1809] ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge George CarletonMemoirs of Captain George Carleton, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielHymen's TriumphUnknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielMusophilusUnknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wiliam GiffordIntroduction to The Plays of Philip MassingerPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ferriar[essay]Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... A Treatie of Warres ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke GrevilleTreatie on Warres, APrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... Alaham in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke GrevilleAlahamPrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Greville's A Treatie of Human Learning ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke GrevilleTreatie of Human Learning, APrint: Book
'C[oleridge] read Greville's An Inquisition upon Fame and Honour... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke GrevilleInquisition upon Fame and Honour, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read vol. 1 [of Thomas Clarkson, History ... of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade] in proof in early Feb. 1808 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas ClarksonHistory of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment ...Print: proof
1700-1799'C[oleridge] read [George Buchanan] at Cambridge.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Buchanan[poems]Unknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge] was a reader of ... [The Lady of the Lake]: he read Southey's copy in Sept. 1810 ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'C[oleridge] was reading Burnet in 1795 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas BurnetunknownPrint: Book


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