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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
 
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Arnold GingrichCast Down the LaurelPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I amused myself by reading "Cast up from the Sea" a book written by Mr Baker the Explorer. It served well to wile away a couple of hours'John Buckley Castieau BakerCast up from the seaPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding unknownCasterton PapersPrint: Book
1700-1799'I went to the Library; read Bramhall against Hobbes'John Byrom John BramhallCastigation of Mr Hobbes [with the appendix]The CaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley James ThomsonCastle of Indolence, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin James ThomsonCastle of Indolence, The
1850-1899'If you like it try the "Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole. That is the best stilted romance style I know. "Well may the blood" says an expiring viscount to a peasan...Sir Walter Raleigh Horace WalpoleCastle of OtrantoPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'.Mary Godwin Maria Edgeworth (anon.)Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian talePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Maria Edgeworth (anon.)Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian talePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read in the Castlemaine Representative last evening that an old man named Joseph Hill who had been sent from here to Castlemaine Gaol in December last, had died there ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Castlemaine RepresentativePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945I read C.C. ['Cat's Cradle'] very carefully in a fortnight: about 50 pp. a day. It held me all right, though not quite so strongly as 'C'. As with 'C'., 'C. C.' is stron...Arnold Bennett Maurice BaringCat's CradlePrint: Book
1900-1945I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in technique. . . . I’m now reading Stendhal’s 'Promenades dans Ro...Arnold Bennett Maurice BaringCat's CradlePrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Hobbes - Catalines plot aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonCataline, his ConspiracyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1840: '[Dr Scully (physician attending Barrett)] brought me a book last week, a catalogue raisonne of Dr Parr's Libra...Elizabeth Barrett Catalogue of library of Samuel ParrPrint: Book
1700-1799Adrian Johns describes how "[Edmond] Halley ... [took] to 'correcting' the copy [of John Flamsteed's star catalogue] in Child's coffeehouse, and pointing out to his 'impi...Edmond Halley John Flamsteedcatalogue of starsPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, [1842]: 'I have been amusing myself lately by looking over the catalogue of the Strawberry Hill collections, and, as you may suppose, ...Lord Francis Jeffrey unknownCatalogue of Strawberry Hill collectionsPrint: Book, catalogue
1600-1699Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's (disapproving) reading of Edmond Halley, Catalogus Stellarum Australium.John Flamsteed Edmond HalleyCatalogus Stellarum Australium, sive Supplementum ...Print: Book
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1900-1945		'On her deathbed Lucy [Harrison] asked Amy [Greener, her lover] to read to her from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Caterina to Camoens" [...] It must have been painful for...Amy Greener Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCatarina to CamoensPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the following in his diary the previous day (15 April): 'Then...Samuel Pepys John PlayfordCatch that catch can, or The musical companionPrint: Book
1500-1599'then I was busie and hard Mr Rhodes Read his Catechismie tell 5'Richard Rhodes [n/a]CatechismPrint: Book


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