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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'I first wrote to my father then wrote a little journal, read two chapters in the Testament, had a good lesson of French, went to see Bob, read in Barclay's Apology for s...Elizabeth Gurney Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'I went to see Mrs Norman and read in Barclay's Apology'Elizabeth Gurney Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'read in Barclay's Apology in the evening'Elizabeth Gurney Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'read a little in Barclay'Elizabeth Gurney Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary's reading list for Percy Shelley for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references.] 'S Hu...Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoApology of SocratesPrint: Book
1600-1699'I spent the after none in my Chamber and hard Mr Rhodes read a book that was mad, as it was saied, by my lord of Esex in defence of his owne Causes'Richard Rhodes Robert Devereux, Earl of EssexApology of the Earl of Essex against those who fal...Print: Book
1600-1699'I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of my lord Esixe treason, and I wrought: and so like wise in the after none Iohn Corrow and he did read by ...Richard Rhodes Robert Devereux, Earl of EssexApology of the Earl of Essex against those who fal...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.'Mary Shelley Francis BaconApopthegmes New and OldPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan F.H. BradleyAppearance and RealityPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'Of Citoyenne Rolands appeal I have read the first only. at present the politics of France puzzle me...Robert Southey Jeanne Marie Roland de la PlatiereAppel a L’Impartiale Postérité Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: 'Have you seen Madame Rolands Appel a l’impartiale Posteritè? it is one of those books that makes me love individuals & yet dre...Robert Southey Marie-Jeanne Roland de la PlatiereAppel a l’Impartiale Posteritè Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann JahnAppendix hermeneuticae seu exercitationes exegeticPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944-45) include account of Ancient Egyptian burial customs, as discovered by later explorers, from Samuel Henley's Appendix...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel HenleyAppendix no. 2Print: Book
1900-1945'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.Hilary Spalding Walter de la MareArabiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Edgar Wallace recalled] the teacher read aloud "The Arabian Nights". "The colour and beauty of the East stole through the foggy windows of Reddin's Road School. Here wa...Edward Wallace AnonArabian NightsPrint: Book
Letter, 25/11/1860 - "I have opposite me at my worktable, a sketch of Rossetti's of the princess - (Parizade; the story is the last in the Arabian nights."John Ruskin Arabian NightsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I got my [first] peep into "Robinson Crusoe" and the "Arabian Nights" at the home of an old uncle of mine. But even though these two wonderful books have been read and e...William Tinsley anonArabian NightsPrint: Book
1800-1849?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the ...William Edwin Adams anonArabian NightsPrint: Book
1900-1945Published in The Woman Worker, newspaper: 'As I sat engaged with the very charming adventures of Zobeide, in the "Arabian Nights", and just as I had reached the spot w...Ethel Carnie N AArabian NightsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have been for some time amusing myself with the "Arabian Nights" Entertainments, to whose fascinating influence I am quite ductile...'Thomas Green Anonymous Arabian Nights EntertainmentsPrint: Book


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