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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
 
1700-1799'When Southey becomes as modest as his predecessor Milton, and publishes his Epics in duodecimo, I will read 'em, — a Guinea a book is somewhat exorbitant, nor have...Charles Lamb Robert SoutheyThe WatchmanPrint: Serial / periodical, Extract from poetry book in periodical
1700-1799'Since writing it, I have found in a poem by Hamilton of Bangour, these 2 lines to happiness

Nun sober and devout, where art thou fled
To hide in shade...		Charles Lamb William HamiltonunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1700-1799'What is become of Moschus? You sported some of his sublimities, I see, in your Watchman. Very decent things.'Charles Lamb Robert LovellThe WatchmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Pits said he had read Hurlothrumbo to some ladies till he was mad, and they were mad, and they were all mad; Strut commended the epilogue.Samuel 'Maggoty' JohnsonHurlothrumbo
1700-1799'Mary Gaywood giving evidence at the trial for theft of her servant Eleanor Clark at the Old Bailey, 21 October 1761: "Last Tuesday right she went away, and not coming ...Eleanor Clark John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1700-1799'8 April 1742: I have myself, upon your recommendation, been reading Joseph Andrews. The incidents are ill laid and without invention; but the characters have a great ...Thomas Gray Henry FieldingThe History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews an...Print: Book
1700-1799'[letter: 1 January 1743]: [Joseph Andrews] contains such a surprising variety of nature, wit, morality, and good sense, as is scarcely to be met with in any one compos...Elizabeth Carter Henry FieldingThe History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews an...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... Jean Curtis Brown and her friend Lucy [consumed] the forbidden magazine "Home Chat", borrowed from the kitchen on the cook's night out.'Jean Curtis Brown and friend Home ChatPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'George Douglas Campbell poetry
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the character. Energy, acuteness, tyranny, and audacity i...Thomas Babington Macaulay MonkBiography of Richard BentleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. It was my favourite at College. There is a rich pro...Thomas Babington Macaulay TheocritusSeventh IdyllPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, and talk with such fanatical warmth about his 'great...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonThe AlchemistPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, into a play. Catiline is a very middling play. The c...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonCatilinePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is very extravagant and foolish. It is the blemish of a p...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alexander PopeThe Rape of the LockPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, far more variety, more sentiment, more thought. But ...Thomas Babington Macaulay HoraceSatiresPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.'Thomas Babington Macaulay Paul Louis CourierLe Simple DiscoursPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"]: 'People speak of the world as they find it. I have been more fortunate or prudent than Swift or Eu...Thomas Babington Macaulay Jonathan SwiftEssay on the Fates of ClergymenPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame is the motive, it is the reward, of our labours: nor...Thomas Babington Macaulay Edward GibbonVindicationPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I do not at all admire this letter. Indeed Middleton ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Conyers MiddletonFree Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Chr...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night's revels'in Shakespeare's ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book


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