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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
 
1700-1799'In 1782 "Cecilia" [...] made its appearance [...] Burke called it an extraordinary performance, and the public were delighted with it.'Edmund Burke Frances BurneyCeciliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lanoe Falconer, Cecilia de Noel'Sarah Good Lanoe FalconerCecilia de NoëlPrint: Book
1700-1799'When he was writing ... "Things as They Are" (1794) ... [William] Godwin studied "Cecilia".'William Godwin Frances BurneyCecilia; or, Memoirs of an HeiressPrint: Book
1900-1945'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus".'Elizabeth Bowen E.M. ForsterCelestial Omnibus, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls of w'ch were about a yard thick & the windows very s...John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss WhiteCharlotte SmithCelestinaPrint: Book
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...John Evelyn John EvelynCelia afraid of an eagleManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Copy S's Tragedy'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyCenci, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'In literature it is only in Vaughan, Traherne, and other mystics, that I find any adequate expression of that perpetual rapturous delight in nature and my own ex...William Henry Hudson Thomas TraherneCenturies of Meditations or Poems of FelicityPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 13-14 July 1839: 'I told [Mr Naylor] [...] that the gift of his book was the more gratifying to me as coming from a fr...Elizabeth Barrett Samuel NaylorCeracchi, a Drama and other PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Thomas J. HorderCerebro-Spinal FeverPrint: Book
1600-1699'November 30. I was reading, and meditating upon what I read in Mr Rogers his book of faith, viz. that there must be legall preparations before faith is wrought in the so...Isaac Archer Richard RogersCertain Sermons . . . to establish and settle all ...Print: Book
1500-1599'[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive notes in this area are found in his copies of [...]...Gabriel Harvey Peter WhitehorneCertain wayes for the ordering of SoldioursPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke GrevilleCertaine Learned and Elegant WorkesPrint: Book
1850-1899"He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote 3 on letter W 38. "Writing in 1865, Lady Waterford,...Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John RuskinCestus of AglaiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Not long afterwards I was reminded of this conversation by some lines from E. A. Mackintosh's "Cha Till Maccruimein," in his volume of poems "A Highland Regiment", which...Vera Brittain E.A. MackintoshCha Till Maccruimein Print: Book
1800-1849'There is a short review of Professor Ansted's work in the Chambers's Journal of this month; from the specimen they give, it must be exceedingly interesting, and I shou...Eliza Ellis [n/a] [n/a]Chambers's Edinburgh JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		On publication of illustrated edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia in 1906: "G. K. Chesterton did not need the incentive of illustrations ... [he] had already 'read whole v...Gilbert Keith Chesterton Chambers's EncyclopediaPrint: Book
1900-1945'As late as the First World War, a Manchester boy could find an epiphany in an old volume of the Journal rescued from a rubbish bin: "It was dog-eared and pages were miss...'a Manchester boy' n/aChambers's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many gen...William Edwin Adams [n/a]Chambers's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavouring as I walked over the grass to read a story in ...James Glass Bertram Robert ChambersChambers's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical


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