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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'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Sarah Harriet Burney PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney PlutarchLivesPrint: 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 PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoLettersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Politian's Lamia'George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoLamiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion...George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoStanzePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion...George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoOrfeoPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw PollockThe Course of TimePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of C...Mountstuart Elphinstone Pope[Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899The Earl of Bessborough describes events following Lady Charlotte Schreiber and her husband's sale of 'a gourd-shaped bottle of Wedgwood ware' bought at Rotterdam in 1873...Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber Pottierworks on ceramicsPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pres...Emily Tennyson PressenseLife of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'During some months of 1837 my father was deeply immersed in Pringle's Travels, and Lyell's Geology'.Alfred Tennyson PringleTravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'Who is Mr. Prior? I have read his "Life of Burke" with the greatest satisfaction [...] There are very few thin...Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool PriorLife of BurkeUnknown
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 Procopius of Caesarea Secret HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the course of editing the volume of Lequat for the Hakluyt Society, I have had occasion to make extracts from the French Astronomer Puigre's journal 1760-1761. It is...S.P. Oliver PuigreJournalManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'For the benefit of my children read "Wonders of the human body" [underlined] describing and explaining by diagram the eye [underlined]. Looked over Pulley's "Etymologica...John Cole PulleyEtymological compendiumPrint: 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 PurchasHis Pilgrimage or Relations of the World and the R...Print: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Puseytwo sermonsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P...Robert Southey Pyrrho Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P...Robert Southey Pythagoras Print: Book


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