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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
 
1800-1849'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in ... Mar. 1810, during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading his copy of The Temple ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge George HerbertTemple, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in July-Sept 1809 ... during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading his copy of The Temple ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Herbert[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge]'s letter to S[ara] H[utchinson] of May 1807 contained a transcription of Marvell's "On a Drop of Dew".'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Andrew MarvellOn a Drop of DewUnknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge]'s study of Pindar in Oct. 1806, apparently begun in London and completed in Bury St Edmunds, was dependent upon the copy of Schmied's edition (Wittenberg, 1...Samuel Taylor Coleridge PindarCarminaPrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge]was ... reading ... [Dubartas his Second Weeke] in 1807.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Guillaume de Saluste DubartasDubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Pa...Print: Book
1900-1945'D. Did you ever read Carpentier's life, I've been reading it in a illustrated paper, 'e thought 'e was on a easy thing 'e never trained. Battling Siki knocked everything... [unknown]Carpentier's lifePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical, illustrated paper
1900-1945'D. H. Lawrence . . . reviewed the novel [The World of William Clissold by Wells] in the "Calendar" of October 1926, in a piece which Bennett says shows his "childish and...Arnold Bennett D.H. Lawrence[review of H.G. Wells's "The World of William Clis...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company", while I read the first chapter of Silone's "Bread ... [unknown]Low CompanyPrint: Book
1900-1945'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company", while I read the first chapter of Silone's "Bread ...Ignazio SiloneBread and winePrint: Book
1900-1945'D.H. Lawrence draws so heavily on his own life - yet how often the best and freest part of his writing is his invention - like the wife in "The Captain's Doll".'Antonia White David Herbert LawrenceCaptain's Doll, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Dad, who is usually very anxious for his dinner, is often late on Sunday, when he is busy studying the sports pages in the Sunday Chronicle'. Sunday ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Dallaway on sculpture is very slovenly from the little pains he takes to be clear. It is very difficult to know what antecedent word he refers to. His book suggests two ...Benjamin Newton James DallawayOf Statuary and Sculpture among the AntientsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dante's Vita Nuova'Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written excitedly, and while Div[ina]. Com[media] was forming...Edward Morgan Forster Dante AlighieriDe Vulgari EloquentiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Darling, do you know what I did last night after writing to you? I meant to finish my lecture, but fell to reading the Georgics (mine, not Virgil's), and really I thoug...Vita Sackville-West Vita Sackville-WestThe LandUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Darwin, writing in praise of the gaucho in his “Voyage of a Naturalist” says that if a gaucho cuts your throat he does it like a gentleman - even as a small boy I...William Henry Hudson Charles DarwinJournal of Researches into the Geology and Natural...Print: Book
1850-1899'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight and remembers knowing it "practically by heart"... S...Rose Macaulay Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrometheus UnboundPrint: Book
1850-1899'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight and remembers knowing it "practically by heart"... S...Rose Macaulay Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, the only one I had, gave posthumous; posthume, which ...Gwen Raverat Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, the only one I had, gave posthumous; posthume, which ...Gwen Raverat William Makepeace ThackerayHenry EsmondPrint: Book


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