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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'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.' ...Claire Clairmont unknownLatin textPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 9th. [...] Begin the Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto.' [further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for 16, 17, 19, 20 December 1821].Claire Clairmont unknown'Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto'Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday Dec. 31st. [...] Begin Ditmar von Aerenstein.' [readings in this author/text also recorded in journal entries for 2, 3, and 9 January 1822, with 'Finish Ditm...Claire Clairmont unknown'Ditmar von Aarenstein'Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday July [...] 29th. [...] Read Travels in Germany.'Claire Clairmont unknown'Travels in Germany'Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.' [records finishing Goethe on 9 August 1825].Claire Clairmont unknownLife of GoethePrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.' Claire Clairmont unknown'lives of the saints'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to James Graham-Clarke, letter postmarked 12 November 1825: 'Have you met with Southey's new Poem "The Tale of Paraguay["]? The extracts I have seen...Elizabeth Barrett unknownReview of Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay (1825...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?I am doing principally my Roman Law just now. It is really to me a great pleasure; and it keeps me out of the way of writing, for which I am not in the vein.? Robert Louis Stevenson unknownRoman LawPrint: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstr...Elizabeth Barrett unknown'History of England and Rome'Print: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Mins...Elizabeth Barrett unknown'History of Greece'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827: 'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [...] I thought it odd that an article of the Edinbur...Elizabeth Barrett unknownReview of William Mitford, An Inquiry into the Pri...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, to Elizabeth Barrett, c.4 October 1830: 'For the last three hours [Arabella, reader's sister] has done nothing but talk in the most nonsensi...Henrietta Moulton-Barrett unknownLife of NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849'In truth I have read nothing these three months but "Strathallan," which I heard much of when it came out, but feel disappointed in now. The fact is that the time is pa...Eleanor Anne Porden unknownStrathallanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was not lucky enough to see Miss Sedgwick, but I will transcribe for you a passage from the journal of a lady, which has just been lent me...'Fanny Trollope unknownjournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'These last two nights have been the most fearful of the war. The Battle of Britain is raging round us. Tonight continuous bombing and gunfire have shaken the house. A...Sidney Webb unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843: 'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, -- to think that for 20 years of our earliest Frie...Benjamin Robert Haydon unknown'life' of David WilkiePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 21 March 1844: 'Southey's letters! I did quite delight in [italics]them[end italics]! They are more [italics]personal[end italics] ...Elizabeth Barrett unknownA Memoir of ... The Late William Taylor of NorwichPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . I send you a book which I picked up as a bargain in the catalogue of a second-hand bookseller, You will see that under the headings of the different countries it...Arnold Bennett unknownunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799[TRANSCRIBED] ?Twelve True Old Golden Rules For those who like to fare better than they now do, and at the same time to thrive and grow rich. 1 The rea...Mary Bacon unknownTwelve True Old Golden RulesUnknown
1700-1799'The wonderful Cambridge Prophet who has been most cruelly Martyrd To be seen at [followed by a gap. It continues] He is not the Wandering jew, nor an old Levite, no...Mary Bacon unknownunknownPrint: Advertisement


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