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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
 
1700-1799West Indian Islands Islands len Brd chief towns Belonging to _______________________________________________________...Mary Bacon unknown[Almanac]Print: Unknown, set out in a table
1700-1799[Transcribed in Mary Bacon's commonplace book/ledger: ?Mars is situated next above the Earth his course being between the orbit of Jupiter and that of the Earth but v...Mary Bacon unknown[almanac]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'[?] I am seen about the garden with large and aged quartos [?]'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 26 July 1847: 'We passed the time [at the monastery at Vallombrosa] till monday, .. reading the Life of San Gualberto ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning unknownLife of St Giovanni GualbertoPrint: Book
1850-1899 'The other main diversions of the voyage resolved themselves into reading unimportant novels aloud, by pairs, on the deck, and gambling in the smoking-room.' George Warrington Steevens unknownunknown [novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'I must tell you about my way of life, which is regular to a degree. Breakfast 8.30; during breakfast and my smoke afterwards until ten, when I begin work, I read Reforma...Robert Louis Stevenson unknownworks on the ReformationPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899[After a break in the letter:] 'There I had the wisdom to stop and look over Japanese picture books until lunch time.' Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[Japanese picture books]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945Friday 7 December 1917: 'I ended my afternoon in one of the great soft chairs at Gordon Square [...] I sat alone for 20 minutes, reading a book on Children & Sex.' ...Virginia Woolf unknown'book on Children & Sex'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 14 December 1917: 'Today we went to see Philip at Fishmongers Hall [being used as military hospital] [...] a great burly cavalry officer was reading his book in ...anon unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I lay in an immense bed, with firelight flickering on the ceiling, and read a book by a theosophist.'Vita Sackville-West unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-19457 August 1918: 'I was very glad to go on with my Byron [...] I'm amused to find how easily I can imagine the effect he had upon women [goes on to comment further upon B...Virginia Woolf unknownlife of ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volume of the History of America. At this rate I calcula...Jane Baillie Welsh unknownHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'My silence on natural history & natural philosophy, arose from ignorance. they are subjects upon which till lately I kn...Robert Southey unknown[works on science]Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf unknownLife of TennysonPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf unknownLife of [?Samuel] JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'[?] though I can do no original work, I get forward making notes for my ?Knox? at a good trot.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownVarious unspecified books concerning John Knox.Print: Book
1900-1945'Do you now what we are doing? Harold is reading about Harmann, The Butcher of Hanover, - an unbelievably horrible book which I recommend by the way to the Hogarth Press...Harold Nicolson unknown[work about Harmann, the Butcher of Hanover]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I'm reading an Oxford undergraduate ms novel, and his hero says "Do you know these lines from The Land, the finest poem, by far the finest of our living poets -" but for...Virginia Woolf unknown[ms novel]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman. I am reading her because we now read plays at 46 [G...Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and other family/friends unknown[unidentified plays]Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen unknown'18th Century prose'Print: Book


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