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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
 
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 3 January 1840: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read Wilberforce, and looked over Dr. Crowther's book.'Harriet Martineau WilberforceunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six volumes. I wanted something to read. I had no one to ...John B. Gough Wiley and Putnam (eds)Library of Choice ReadingPrint: Book
1800-1849'I also return the Grimaldi MS. I have thought the matter over, and looked it over, too. It is very badly done, and is so redolent of twaddle that I fear I can not take i...Charles Dickens WilksMemoirs of Joseph GrimaldiManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945But when the morning came and we rode on, and the beautiful land spread its high places, its secret pastoral solitudes about us, and I sat by a spring and ate my eg...Freya Stark William of TyreHistoria rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum (...Print: Book
1700-1799?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan, Collins, Woolston, Annet, Mandeville, Shaftesbury, ...James Lackington WilliamsunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I attacked it vigorously and perseveringly...Francis Place WilliamsonEuclidPrint: Book
1800-1849'This summer (1825) the author of 'A Journal of a naturalist', states to have been, what it certainly was, 'hot and dry'.'John Cole WilliamsonA Journal of a naturalistPrint: Book
1800-1849'With Willis's Melaine, etc., I have been delighted, and indeed affected, more than with any poetry I ever read in my life. I wonder if he is the gentleman I met at Mr. W...Barbara Hofland WillisMelainePrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 23 February 1828: 'I saw at the printing office [Ballantyne's] a part of a review on Leigh Hunt's Anecdotes of Byron by Wilson. It is written with power (app...Walter Scott Wilsonreview of Leigh Hunt, Anecdotes of ByronUnknown
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon; I do not think he has given the right reasonings ...George Grote WolfProleg[omena] 'in Homer'Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 6 December 1822: 'Continued the perusal of Wolf's Prolegomena, which contains very much instruction as to the literature and MSS. of ant...George Grote WolfProleg[omena] 'in Homer'Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 7 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Read Wolf. My opinion of him not lessened; from some passages I think he is a Free- thinker, especially as t...George Grote WolfProleg[omena] 'in Homer'Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon Diod. Sicul., having previously cast my eye over ...George Grote WolfProleg[omena] 'in Homer'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 31 December 1843: 'With thanks I return the verses of your artist friend [enclosed in letter from Westwood of 27 December]. It ...Elizabeth Barrett Woodslines of poetryManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan, Collins, Woolston, Annet, Mandeville, Shaftesbury, ...James Lackington WoolstonunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and bet...Mary Berry Wraxhallwork on period of Henry III (second volume)Print: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and bet...Mary Berry Wraxhallwork on period of Henry III (second volume)Print: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849"In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon..."Thomas Cooper XenophonMemorabiliaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge XenophonXenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, with the defence oPrint: Book


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