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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'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in the West Indies and called it the Sugar Cane; it was s...Samuel Johnson James GraingerSugar Cane, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Harrington told Seward, who told me; that Swift had taken his Tale of a Tub from Pallavicini upon Divorces, I always thought it was borrowed from "les trois Annea...Hester Lynch Thrale Jonathan SwiftTale of a Tub, APrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John HawkesworthRival, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John Hawkesworth[Ode on life]Print: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John HawkesworthAmurathPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John HawkesworthAdventurer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Doctor Marriott wrote the prettiest Verses in French of any Englishman I know'.[she then gives lengthy examples]Hester Lynch Thrale Dr Marriott[French poems]Unknown
1700-1799'Doctr Burney has translated the famous old French Chanson Militaire - [italics] all about Roland [end italics]: how happy, how skilful, how elegant is that dear Creature...Hester Lynch Thrale Charles Burney[translation of a French Chanson]Unknown
1900-1945'Does the A[natole] F[rance] next book consist of the proofs you've let me see? And what on earth is one to write about it?' Joseph Conrad Anatole FranceL'Ile des PingouinsManuscript: Sheet, Proofs
1700-1799'Does your Ladiship see The Adventurer? I buy it; but have not had time to read but here and there one; But purpose from the Character judicious Friends give of them, to ...Samuel Richardson John HawkesworthAdventurer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Domestic servant Dorothy Burnham never read girls' stories ("I found them insipid and meaningless") but she and her older sister were fixated on the "Magnet" to the poin...Dorothy Burnham n/aThe MagnetPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Don Quixote & Calderon'Mary Shelley Pedro Calderon de la Barca[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Don Quixote & Calderon'Mary Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'Henry William Williamson [n/a][ [n/a]Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'Henry William Williamson [n/a] [n/a]Motor CyclePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.'Henry William Williamson [n/a] [n/a]Motor CyclingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Don't read noble old Fred's Pirate anyhow; it is written in sand with a salt spoon: arid, feeble, vain, tottering production.'Robert Louis Stevenson Frederick MarryatThe Pirate Print: Book
1900-1945'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunition, and explosives etc., etc., littering my table, to...Donald William Alers Hankey Sir William Francis Patrick NapierHistory of the War in the PeninsularPrint: Book
1900-1945'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunition, and explosives etc., etc., littering my table, to...Donald William Alers Hankey [unknown][essay on rifling]Print: Book
1800-1849'Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti Che ancor d'preggi tuoi parla sovente Lodando ora il bel crine, ora il ridente Tuo labbro ed ora i saggi detti onesti'Lady Caroline Lamb Faustina Maratti ZappiDonna che tanto al mio bel sol piacestiUnknown


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