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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
 
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern...Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery George SandysA Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610Print: Book
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern...Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'The 12th and 13th I spent most of the time in playing Geck...Moll Neville Philip SidneyThe Countess of Pembroke's ArcadiaUnknown
1600-1699"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L...William Prynne Giles WiddowesLawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall PuritanPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L...Giles WiddowesLawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall PuritanPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L...anon ("others") Giles WiddowesLawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall PuritanPrint: Book, proof copy
1700-1799
1800-1849		"In 1843, W[ordsworth] recalled his research for The Borderers: ' ... having a wish to colour the manners in some degree from local history more than my knowledge enabled...William Wordsworth George RedpathThe Border History of England and ScotlandPrint: Book
1850-1899"In 1862, as a 25-year-old rebel ... [Swinburne] took it on himself to scandalize a dinner party at Fryston. His target was not his host, Richard Monckton Milnes ... No...Algernon Swinburne Algernon SwinburneLes Noyades
1850-1899"In 1905 [Andrew] Lang ... recalled: 'The first book that ever made me cry, of which feat I was horribly ashamed, was 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', with the death of Eva ...'"Andrew Lang Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899"In 1932 Thomas Burke paid tribute to T. P.'s Weekly for having fired his imagination and given direction to his life ... 'I discovered literature by picking up a copy of...Thomas Burke T. P.'s WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"In Feb. 1834, W[ordsworth] remembered having first read Crabbe in the Annual Register during the 1780s; there he also read Beattie's 'Illustrations on Sublimity.'"William Wordsworth Annual RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699"In Geneva on the Grand Tour ... [Robert] Boyle would continue to pursue 'above all the Reading of Romances,' and would become fluent in French from doing so."Robert Boyle French romancesPrint: Book
1600-1699"In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practice. Her course was, when she read the Scriptures, to gather out passages, and sort and refer them to t...Elizabeth Baker ScripturesUnknown
1900-1945"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."General Drummond Jane PorterThe Scottish ChiefsPrint: Book
1900-1945"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."General Drummond Samuel SmilesLIfe and LabourPrint: Book
1800-1849"In Holywood at the time of the peninsular war 'several would join to buy a number of the Belfast News-letter or of the Commercial Chronicle; or, through the kindness of ...people of Holywood, Ulster newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849"In January 1804 Coleridge annotated, heavily, in pencil, the first dozen or so pages of a copy of Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population by way of assista...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of PopulationPrint: Book
1700-1799"In June 1797, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote to Mary Hutchinson, telling her that, as soon as [S. T.] C[oleridge] arrived at Racedown Lodge, 'he repeated to us two acts an...Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel Taylor ColeridgeOsorioManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699"In late 1686 [Edmond] Halley ... sent [John] Wallis the original Royal Society minutes -- 'I have no Copy of the Inclosed minutes, which are as they were read before the...Royal Society Society minutesManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799"In late Nov. 1795, W[ordsworth] wrote to [Francis] Wrangham: " ... we see only here a provincial weekly paper ..."William Wordsworth  Print: Newspaper


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