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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		Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El...Ada Cambridge Henry James Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El...Ada Cambridge William Dean Howells Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		"To the Editors of the Attempt, Gentlemen, If I recollect rightly you give notice to the effect, that communication cannot be received after the twentieth of the month....anon The AttemptPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		" ... within a few pages [of his copy of Philip Nichols's Sir Francis Drake Revived (1626)], [John Ruskin] writes, 'very obscure' (p. 27) ... 'don't understand at all' (p...John Ruskin Philip NicholsSir Francis Drake RevivedPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' (1845) identifies the pseudonymous author of the '...anon LIfe of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'U...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		" ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a very small number of typographical errors."Thomas Babington Macaulay Jane AustennovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"How much a book gains by the appropriate surroundings of the person reading it, was forcibly impressed upon me [by the circumstances described in RED ID 5432], and this ...John Bedford Leno Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"I found on entering Harborough the walls posted with a proclamation forbidding all meetings in favour of Chartism."John Bedford Leno [proclamations forbidding Chartists' meetings]Print: Poster
1800-1849
1850-1899		"I stayed for the night in Derby, visiting its various printing offices in search of a job, but without success, and, hugging the shore of the river Derwent, made for Mat...John Bedford Leno William WordsworthSonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		H. J. Jackson discusses Leigh Hunt's responsive annotations, including personal reminiscences and observations, as well as critical remarks, to his copy of James Boswell'...James Leigh Hunt James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		H. J. Jackson notes John Gibson Lockhart's annotations, including personal reminiscences in response to sections of text, in his copy of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Jo...John Gibson Lockhart James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"An unknown reader inclined to be sarcastic at Boswell's expense in a British Library copy of the 1829 edition [of the Life of Johnson] ... goes to some pains to record a...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia]: ms annotations suggest they may be reminders of items used for sermon preparation e.g. p.22 Text = "Sermon II. Forgiveness a present mercy", ms note = "GFI ...clergyman Henry BluntSermons preached in Trinity Church, Upper ChelseaPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		H. J. Jackson notes annotations in a copy of Middlemarch by a reader who, "initially repelled by the books, was gradually won over."anon George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A contemptible heap of rant & twaddle'" and "'Noisome ped...Thomas Babington Macaulay T. J. MathiasPursuits of LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome given to him in 1848, "when Raven wa...John James Raven Thomas Babington MacaulayLays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada"Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"William Carleton got the perusal of Gil Blas from a 'pedlar, who carried books about for sale, with a variety of other goods'."William Carleton Alain-Rene Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		J. R. R. Adams quotes at length from William Carleton's account (in his autobiography) of first reading Amoranda, or the reformed coquette, when young, "'the first thing ...William Carleton Amoranda, or the reformed coquettePrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849
1850-1899		J. R. R. Aadams quotes from memoirs of Seamus MacManus (The Rocky Road to Dublin, 1939) on how MacManus (b. Donegal, c.1868) read the merchandise [mainly popular song and...Seamus MacManus popular chapbooksPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia]: some very brief marginal marks/notes eg p. 72/3 is bookmarked and has text '11. Calcium. - This metal is a component of part of all animals' marked by three...Jonathan PereiraTreatise on food and diet, APrint: Book


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