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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'and at the Dukes, with great joy, I received the good news of the decrease of the plague this week to 70, and but 253 in all; which is the least Bill hath been known the...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of mortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'But blessed be God, a good Bill this week we have - being but 237 in all and 42 of the plague, and of them, but 6 in the City - though my Lord Brouncker says that these ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Bill of mortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 2 August 1832: 'The cholera remains in its diminished state. Only twenty-eight deaths yesterday; I believe I ...Harriet Countess Granville bill/report of [cholera] mortalityPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790: 'I have most seriously been house-hunting for you. I saw two bills on doors in Montpellier-row, but neither are furnished.'Horace Walpole anonbills advertising houses for sale/to letPrint: Advertisement, Poster
1900-1945Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Herman Melville, Billy Budd, with remarks including 'Billy Budd [...] has goodness, of ...Edward Morgan Forster Herman MelvilleBilly BuddPrint: Book
1850-1899'Jan. Very pretty stories'Sarah Good Ouida Bimbi, Stories for ChildrenPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I dined yesterday at Rydal Mount ... Poor Mr. Wordsworth is all but blind. He bears his affliction with wonderful cheerfulness. I read to him my own Life of Roger Asch...Hartley Coleridge Hartley ColeridgeBiographia Borealis; or Lives of Distinguished Nor...Print: Book
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Biographia BritannicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday March 14th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography'.Claire Clairmont David Erskine BakerBiographia dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playh...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'In Coleridge's life I perceive an attack upon the then Committee of D[rury] L[ane] Theatre - for acting Bertram ... this is not ve...George Gordon Lord Byron Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBiographia LiterariaPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay on Coleridge, this fine evening, when the flies are...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBiographia LiterariaPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... ...Vero Walter Garratt Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBiographia LiterariaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads & finishes Coleridge's Liteerary [sic] life'Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBiographia Literaria; or Biographical sketches of ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John HowieBiographia ScoticanaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday March 13th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography [makes detailed notes from vol. I part i in this]'.Claire Clairmont David Erskine BakerBiographica dramatica; or, a Companion to the Play...Print: Book
1700-1799'The anecdotes of Bowyer is to me a very entertaining book, I intend to read it through. I was much pleased with the following epigram by Sr Mr Brown "The king to Oxford ...Joseph Hunter John NicholsBiographical and Literary Anecdotes of W BowyerPrint: Book
1700-1799'The following story is taken from p 248 of the anecdotes of Bowyer. Among the innumerable stories that are told of him [Dr Brown Willis] [...] [1 1/2 page story].'Joseph Hunter John NicholsBiographical and Literary Anecdotes of W BowyerPrint: Book
1700-1799'Took Staunton's "Embassy to China" to the Library & brought "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution...". "about one-third of the anecdotes" says the editor ....Joseph Hunter [Anon] Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the Fren...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution". I have found that considerably more of it has appeared in the "Monthly Magazine" than they acknowledge...Joseph Hunter [Anon] Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the Fren...Print: Book
1800-1849"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W...Frances Power Cobbe Biographical DictionaryPrint: Book


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