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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'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Revisky on Hafiz...'Mountstuart Elphinstone ReviskyHafizPrint: Book
'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected ...George Crabbe Reynolds[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Natural History of Rabbit. On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my friend James' [?Edmeston])John Cole RhindNatural history of the RabbitPrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked over Rhind's "Studies in Natural History", read a portion of the month in "Annals of my Village".'John Cole RhindStudies in Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Natural History of the Stickleback, which is a very interesting, though common fish.'John Cole RhindNatural History of the SticklebackPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed: '"I compare marriage, even where there is no unhappiness, to a journey in a stage Coach, six passen...C.M.G. [anon] RichardsonunknownUnknown
1800-1849Friday, 10 March 1826: '[Henry Weber] was a man of very superior attainments, an excellent linguist and geographer and a remarkable antiquary. He publishd a collecti...Walter Scott RitsonAncient English Metrical RomancesPrint: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place Robertsonunknown [Robertson's works?]Print: Book
1800-1849"Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive, amusing and well-written volume.'John Cole RobinsonScripture CharactersPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault. Like seeing something emerge; without containing m...Virginia Woolf RochefoucauldunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Smith August 19 1785 'So much for this subject. Rochefoucault says, very ill-naturedly, that people always find consolation very easily for the misfortunes...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Rochefoucault[Maxims and moral reflections?]Print: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'At the house party where Anna met the Bishop of Llandaff, guests took it in turns to read to one another. On 1 July 1780, for instance, after hearing her sister Clara re...Clara RollinHistoire anciennePrint: Book
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 RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 31 January 1808: 'Read through Roscoe's pamphlet and Spence's "England Independent of Commerce."'Mary Berry Roscoe[unidentified pamphlet]Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E...		Victor Alexander Ross and SomervilleAn Irish R.M.Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. September 1792: 'I ought to be studying Euclid — (the Devil take that wretch & make draw triangles below) but Rousseau be...Robert Southey RousseauunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Grammar ...'George Gordon Lord Byron RuddimanLatin GrammarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you read a book called Dr Antonio by Ruffini (translated fr the Italian) If not do so now if possible. We have been doing the very scenes he mentions & his descri...Cornelia Sorabji RuffiniDr AntonioPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 29 August 1807: 'I find Modern Europe really very entertaining, at least as much as is quite i...Lady Harriet Cavendish Russell'Modern Europe'Print: Book


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