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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
 
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on Raymond Lull's Art of Memory, copied from the second edition of Richard Saunders's Physiognomie, and C...Edward Pordage Richard SaundersPhysiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, The S...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on memory from Francis Bacon's Of the proficience and advancement of learning (1605). ...Edward Pordage Francis BaconOf the proficience and advancement of learningPrint: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Detailed reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's Magia Adamica (1650). Edward Pordage Thomas VaughanMagia Adamica. Or the Antiquity of Magic, And the ...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's The Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to death for gnawing the margin...Edward Pordage Thomas VaughanThe Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to dea...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the English translation of A New Light of Alchymy (1674) by Michał Sędziwój (Sendi...Edward Pordage Michał SędziwójA New Light of Alchymy; Taken out of ye Fountain o...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on memory from the fifth edition of Thomas Wilson's The Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as ar...Edward Pordage Thomas WilsonThe Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the second edition of Samuel Chandler's An Impartial Account of the Portsmouth Disputation (...Edward Pordage Samuel ChandlerAn Impartial Account of the Portsmouth DisputationPrint: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extensive reading notes from Robert Ferguson's A View of an Ecclesiastick in his Socks & Buskins (1698). ...Edward Pordage Robert FergusonA View of an Ecclesiastick in his Socks & Buskins,...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the dedicatory epistle to Dr John Newton's The Scale of Interest (1668). ...Edward Pordage John NewtonThe Scale of Interest. Or ye Use of Decimal Fracti...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Very extensive reading notes from the sixth edition of James Howell's Epistolę Ho-Elianę familiar letters, dome...Edward Pordage James HowellEpistolę Ho-Elianę familiar letters, domestic and ...Print: Book
1700-1799'As soon as I had learned to read, my great delight was that of learning epitaphs and monumental inscriptions. A story of melancholy import never failed to arrest my atte...Mary Darby Alexander PopeLines to the Memory of an Unfortunate LadyPrint: Book
1700-1799'As soon as I had learned to read, my great delight was that of learning epitaphs and monumental inscriptions. A story of melancholy import never failed to arrest my atte...Mary Darby MasonElegy upon the death of the beautiful Countess of ...Print: Book
1700-1799'[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from that time, deserted me. Mrs [Meribah] Lorrington freque...Mary Darby  Print: Book
1700-1799'[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from that time, deserted me. Mrs [Meribah] Lorrington freque...Meribah Lorrington  Print: Book
1700-1799'[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from that time, deserted me. Mrs [Meribah] Lorrington freque...Meribah Lorrington Mary DarbypoemsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Lord Lyttleton] presented me with the works of Miss Aikin (now Mrs Barbauld). I read them with rapture; I thought them the most beautiful Poems I had ever seen, and con...Mary Robinson Anna Laetitia AikinPoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was correcting a proof sheet of my volume [of poetry], when the servant abruptly announced Mr. Fitzgerald! [...] The next subject of praise [following Fitzgerald's com...George Robert Fitzgerald Mary Robinson'pastoral [poem]'Print: Unknown, In publisher's proofs
1700-1799Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko': '"The editor was acquainted by an old lady of family, who assured him that ...anon Aphra Behn[?]OroonokoPrint: Book
1700-1799From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay': 'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest daughter Esther, Fanny [Burney] sat by and listened, ...Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther)Alexander Pope'works'Print: Book
1700-1799From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay': 'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest daughter Esther, Fanny [Burney] sat by and listened, ...Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther)Virgil AeneidPrint: Book


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