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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'He [the new apprentice] made selections from the Old and New Testament history, which he read aloud, and upon which he dilated with a force and eloquence that would have...Martin n/aOld and New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop n/aCourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop n/aThe Independent WhigPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter n/aThe Independent WhigPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I left Ecclefechan on the evening of Tuesday the 19th Decr on the top of the Glasgow Mail. Little occurred worthy of notice, till on my arrival in Moffatt, I discovered...Unknown 'Scottish Gourmand' n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- happy for your sake, because, as you will, I dare sa...John Wilson Croker Nassau senior'[article] on the Scotch novels'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding NehemiahBook of NehemiahPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 3 December 1850: 'On referring to Mr Newby's letters, I find in one of them, a boast that he is "advertising vigorously."' Charlotte Bronte NewbyletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849I have been principally engaged this day studying at an encyclopaedia by Nicholson, six octavo [volumes], a book sent by George Clark, bookseller, Aberdeen. Invoiced at s...Adam Mackie NicholsonEncyclopaediaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the lonely Nietzsche: but I felt a bit ashamed of my feelings for this man in the past. He is, if you like, "human, all too human." Read until late. I felt wre...Katherine Mansfield Nietzsche Print: Book
1800-1849Letter 443. March, 29, 1832: "Nonnus appears to have few instances of hiatus. I have observed— αυτοθι εμπεδα...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Nonnus of Panopolis[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and...Harriet Martineau NortonWork "in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines"Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Olaus MagnusHistory of the Northern PeoplePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Orme's Hindustan (a second time) ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone OrmeHindustanPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792 'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I support him against all other poets. You may easily g...Elizabeth Smith Ossian[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792 'Can you find anything equal to his [Ossian's] descriptions of nature; his address to the Sun in Carthos, that to the Moon in Darthula, and ...Elizabeth Smith OssianhymnsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The character of the people that Ossian describes, their manners, their habits, but above all, their superstitions, are essentially poetic.'Robert Story Ossian Print: Book
1800-1849'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton - and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boot...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Ossian (pseud.)[poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanized their language; it appears to me a thing impossibl...Robert Southey Ossian [James Macpherson]PoemsPrint: Book
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1800-1849		Mary Berry, Journal, October 23 1821: 'Went on a visit to Sir John and Lady Oswald. Sir John had given me a collection of his grandfather's letters to Ministers and seve...Mary Berry OswaldLetters to ministers and 'distinguished persons', ...Manuscript: Letter


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