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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
1850-1899		Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps: "I take home the 'Family Herald', and read it with a great deal of pleasure, an...Heywood family Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I find even with myself coming to London occasionally only as I do now, that I really take...William Edward Hickson Maidstone GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I find even with myself coming to London occasionally only as I do now, that I really take...William Edward Hickson The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader that Cleopatra's story of the salt fish on Antony's...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Absurd! Who knows anything about the usages of the Sena...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular Government]: "Well! but there had certainly been elec...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, which suggests that Shakespeare had misread his autho...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had thumbed his translation of Plutarch to rags."Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Hesiod Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Athenaeus Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Cato Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Livy Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Sallust Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Tacitus Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Aulus Gellius Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Suetonius Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Fi...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Fi...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroAcademic QuestionsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Fi...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroTusculan DisputationsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, luminous and full of interest; but the Epicurean theory...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book


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