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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'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are...George Crabbe John NewtonCardiphonia, or Utterance of the HeartPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson, as usual, spoke contemptuously of Colley Cibber. "It is wonderful that a man, who for forty years had lived with the great and the witty, should have acquir...Samuel Johnson Colley CibberCareless Husband, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heinrich SteffensCaricaturen des HeiligstenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heinrich SteffensCaricaturen des HeiligstenPrint: Book
1850-1899'I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me after having finished "Mrs Arthur", and then - a happy ...A.W. Kinglake Margaret OliphantCaritaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Mary Godwin August H.J. LafontaineCarl Engelmann's TagebuchPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I am sorry that the Athenaeum is no longer publish’d in such a shape that I can get it, for it is well worth two-pence. I can hardly say as much for the Carlisle Patri...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]Carlisle PatriotPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with facility, & am now abridging the Angelica of Lope de V...Robert Southey Pedro de Azevedo Tojal Carlos Reduzido, Inglaterra Illustrada Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the end of Froude's "Carlyle" last night, thankful that in general I make the people about me happy.' John Ruskin FroudeCarlylePrint: Book
'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who wanted Johnson's opinions on his literary works]; u...Samuel Johnson HoraceCarmen SeculareManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Three of W[ordsworth]'s translations of Catullus survive from between 1786 and c.1788 ["Death of a Starling" (1786); "Lesbia" (1786); "Septimius and Acme" (1788)] ... he...William Wordsworth CatullusCarminaUnknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge]'s study of Pindar in Oct. 1806, apparently begun in London and completed in Bury St Edmunds, was dependent upon the copy of Schmied's edition (Wittenberg, 1...Samuel Taylor Coleridge PindarCarminaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 March 1832: 'When I had Payne Knight here, I took the trouble of counting the number of lines he has thought proper to leav...Elizabeth Barrett Homer Carmina HomericaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Carmina Illustrium Poetarum ItalorumPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[treet]"., but I have now taken "Carnival" in persisten...Henry James Compton MackenzieCarnivalPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there & reads Germania - Several books arrive among others ...Mary Godwin Elizabeth jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de MontolieuCaroline de LichtfieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.Mary Godwin Elizabeth Jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de MontolieuCaroline de LichtfieldPrint: Book
1700-1799'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebastien Mercier's comedy "Mon Bonnet de Nuit", and the B...Mary Wollstonecraft Baroness de MontoliereCaroline de LitchfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'D. Did you ever read Carpentier's life, I've been reading it in a illustrated paper, 'e thought 'e was on a easy thing 'e never trained. Battling Siki knocked everything... [unknown]Carpentier's lifePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical, illustrated paper
1850-1899'all this time I have never thanked you for Mr Aide's book. But at first I was ill (whh made the gift all the more valuable;) and then I thought I would read it first: an...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Hamilton AideCarr of CarrlyonPrint: Book


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