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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"In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the Odes of Anacreon, ..."Thomas Cooper AnacreonOdes of AnacreonPrint: Book
1800-1849"In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon..."Thomas Cooper XenophonMemorabiliaPrint: Book
1850-1899"In order to read Lyell's controversial Vestiges of Creation when it first came to the house [of the Nonconformist minister in whose family she worked as companion and he...Mary Smith LyellVestiges of CreationPrint: Book
1600-1699"In Part I of the Religio [Medici] (i:30), [Thomas] Browne confesses himself a writer of marginalia, quoting a passage of Paracelsus that he declare 'I never could pass ....Thomas Browne Paracelsus  Print: Book
1800-1849"in spring 1800 ... [Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ..."William Wordsworth Robert HeronObservations Made in a Journey through the Western...Print: Book
1850-1899"In the early 1870s Browning frequently dined at the Chelsea home of the newly married Sir Charles Dilke. In 1872 he read there Red Cotton Nightcap Country (1873) -- 'at...Robert Browning Robert BrowningRed Cotton Nightcap CountryUnknown
1700-1799"In the Fenwick Note to the Intimations Ode, W[ordsworth] recalled that at school 'I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah' ... the Hawkshead schoolboys regu...William Wordsworth The BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799"Is there yet left the least unmortgag'd hope" ('All for Love')Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for LovePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"It is very like Shirley except that there is no heather & the people are all of them of the Yorkshire kind as described by the Brontes."Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849"It so happened that a retired Scotch physician, who had settled in the town, chanced to read this notice, and, interested in all related to his gifted countryman [Burns]...a Scotch physician Falcon Harmonic Society Notice of a Burns SupperPrint: Poster
1800-1849"It was about this period that Mike, the dwarf waiter, fell ill. His mistress and others of her family being worn out by watching, the landlady appealed to me to take a ...John Bedford Leno Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1850-1899"It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, prep...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1900-1945"It was when reading Gilbert Murray's rendering of Euripides' Medea, by the side of the [Shrewsbury School] cricket field, that [Neville] Cardus was noticed by the headma...Neville Cardus EuripidesMedeaPrint: Book
1800-1849"It was while reading Mr Kendrick's translation from the German of 'Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem',with which I was thoroughly bewitched, that I conceived, and communic...Harriet Martineau Mr KendrickTranslation of 'Helons Pilgrimage from Jerusalem'Print: Book
1800-1849"Jane Austen herself, the Queen of novelists, the immortal creator of Anne Elliott, Mr Knightley, and a score or two more of unrivalled intimate friends of the whole publ...Harriet Martineau James Edward Austen-LeighA Memoir of Jane AustenPrint: Book
1900-1945"Je relis 'Tom Jones'. En effet, c'est ?patant". [I am re-reading "Tom Jones". In fact, it is astonishing'] Arnold Bennett Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1900-1945"Jeremy would always have fond memories of the Grange during the war years - throwing wet mud at cloth-caped gardener Tom Houghton; sneaking into the kitchen to spirit aw...Ellen Clifford  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my sto...John Clare CinderellaPrint: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
1700-1799
1800-1849		"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my sto...John Clare Little Red Riding HoodPrint: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
1700-1799
1800-1849		"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my sto...John Clare Jack and the BeanstalkPrint: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"


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