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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
 
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Having passed a sleepless night I did not rise until 1/2 past 7. Read some more of ...George Grote Turgot[Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'About this period, Mr Tymms sent down for inspection the proof of his Acct. of Northamptonshire for the Family Topographer to which I added several paragraphs and correc...John Cole TymmsFamily TopographerPrint: Proof
1850-1899'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensel...Margaret Oliphant unknownPeasant LifePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Austen and her family were] 'great novel readers and not ashamed of being so'.Jane Austen unknown[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Landscape gardener Humphry Repton's wife read to him while he drew''.Humphry Repton unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818: 'December 7th. [...] The Duchess[of York]'s life is an odd one; she seldom has a female companion, she is read to all nigh...Duchess of York unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson on 'Thursday Evening December 8th [1808]': 'Mr. De Quincey ... is beside me, quietly turning over the leaves of a Greek bo...Thomas De Quincey unknown[Greek book]Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849'I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to express preference for Mrs Klopstock's letters over those...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownMemoir of Frederick and Margaret KlopstockPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have seen a hint in one of the Papers about some letters of [General Sir] David Baird to the same tune as [Sir John] Moore's [about the Peninsular Campaign].'William Wordsworth unknown[newpapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have just been reading an old Magazine where I find that Benjamin Flower was fined ?100 and imprisoned in Newgate four months ... for a libel, as it was termed, upon t...William Wordsworth unknown[magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to William Taylor, April 1799: '[Amos Cottle] was in a hurry, and wanted northern learning, but seemed to have no idea of knowing how or where to look fo...Amos Cottle unknownEdda Soemundar hinns FrodaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 11 May 1808: 'Would you believe it we too had dreams about Loch Kettrine when we saw the advertisement ... 'Dorothy Wordsworth unknown[advertisement]Print: Advertisement
1800-1849William Wordsworth to S.T. Coleridge, [5 May 1809]: 'Turning over an old Magazine three or four days ago I hit upon a paragraph stating that B. Flower had been fined ?100...William Wordsworth unknown[magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what he reads in the Grammar. Today we proposed to him ...John Wordsworth unknownHistory of EnglandPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Cathrine Clarkson, 19 December 1819: 'I do not know whther I ought to tell you that [Sara Hutchinson] is most eagerly and happily employed in knitti...Sara Hutchinson unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820, on her nephew William's academic progress: '...he seems yet to have little or no satisfaction in reading alone....William Wordsworth unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth]. Aware of W[ordsworth]'s interest in the Convent...William Wordsworth unknownProceedings upon the Inquiry relative to the Armis...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, namely: epitaph of Josias Franklin and his wife; Benjam...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownepitaph of Josias Franklin and wifeUnknown
1700-1799'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, namely: epitaph of Josias Franklin and his wife; Benjam...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownepitaph of Benjamin FranklinUnknown
1700-1799'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, namely: epitaph of Josias Franklin and his wife; Benjam...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownepitaph "taken from the Parish Church-Yard of Mars...Unknown


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