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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
 
1850-1899'The weather continues disagreeable and the streets dirty. Read Jacobi's Briefe uber Spinoza.'George Eliot [pseud] Friedrich Heinrich JacobiBriefe Uber SpinozaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Transcribed into a ms volume] Title 'Lines by Mrs Hemans'; Text 'Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board/ To wreathe the cup ere the wine is poured;/ Bring fl...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansBring flowersPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'The "Bristol Fashion" business is excellently well put. You seem to know a lot about every part of the world and what's more you can say what you know in a most individ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamBristol Fashion Pt.2 Print: Serial / periodical
1600-1699Camden does credit this and repeates a tryal one made of forceing a Duck into one of those falls, which came out at the other side by Moles with its feathers allmost all ...Celia Fiennes William CamdenBritanniaPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so I left them with him and went with Mr Moore to Grayes Inne to his chamber, and there he showed me his old Cambdens "Brittannia", which I intended to buy of him an...Samuel Pepys William CamdenBritanniaPrint: Book
1700-1799Contains a contents list, index to illustrations, index to maps and cross references to other texts in his library.John Dawson William CamdenBritannia: or, a Chorographical Description of GrePrint: Book
1850-1899MS annotations incl. v.1 p.534: "A ludicrous map, palpably incorrect at every point. Malplaquet is on the wrong side of the French line, and the attack on the French left...George Otto Trevelyan James GrantBritish battles on land and seaPrint: Book
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educa...Thomas Burt [n/a]British ControversionalistPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 28 June 1815: 'I have seen the British Critic which contains a Review by a Friend of the Coleridges' which between ourselves I t...Dorothy Wordsworth British CriticPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'I have seen the B. Critic. stupid hounds not to prefer the Monody! however our friends there behave very well.' Robert Southey British CriticPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- the sort of thing I required [for preparation for tr...Edward Morgan Forster Sir Alfred C. LyallBritish Dominion in IndiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Went to Milton saw a fine Edition of Leniuses Botany [...] saw also a beautiful book on insects with the plants they feed on by Curtis'John Clare John CurtisBritish Entomology ... Insects Found in Great Brit...Print: Book
1800-1849'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a co...Thomas Carter [n/a]British PressPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1813: 'I have received and read the British Review ... 'George Gordon, Lord Byron British ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron...Chester Armstrong British WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1500-1599'One of [Gabriel] Harvey's leisure time interests in London at this time [1580s] is suggested by an interesting broadsheet with his signature dated "1588", some manuscrip...Gabriel Harvey anonBroadsheet listing merchandise (including pharmace...Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet
1850-1899'Have you seen anything of the Broadway: I rather like it.'Robert Louis Stevenson BroadwayPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Had a little barney with Polly, owing to my reading some cutting remarks by "a woman" "on women" in the Broadway Magazine. I skipped all the hits at the man & [read?] a...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Broadway MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe John FordBroken Heart, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a r...Charlotte Bury John FordBroken Heart, ThePrint: Book


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