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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
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"
1900-1945'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...'Alfred Hitchcock Cinematograph Lantern WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'This evening we read a fine trajedy by Corneille where there are many noble characters Emily has such strength and such nobleness'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Pierre CorneilleCinnaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read 14th Canto of Ariosto and Cinna of Corneille'Mary Shelley Pierre CorneilleCinnaPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Is not "Cinq Mars" very fine? I should like to read more of De Vigny'.Harriet Martineau Alfred de VignyCinq MarsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In June, a three-volume novel titled "Circe's Lovers" appeared, written by Leith Derwent (the pseudonym of John Veitch), a friend of Osborne. Interested in this novelist...Arthur Symons Leith Derwent [pseud.]Circe's LoversPrint: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro MetastasioCiro riconosciutoPrint: Unknown
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding A.J. CroninCitadel, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] George DennisCities and Cemeteries of Etruria, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'…I got it the same year as I got “The Cities of the World” the most remarkable point about which, I have always thought, is the fact that it omits to mention London, tho...Richard [Dick] Kharsedji Sorabji Edwin HodderCities of the WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter Oliver GoldsmithCitizen of the World, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'Mary Shelley Oliver GoldsmithCitizen of the World, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithCitizen of the World, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the "City of Sunshine", entirely about Indian (not Anglo-Indian) life, which gives a very fine picture ...Margaret Oliphant Alexander AllardyceCity of SunshinePrint: Book
1800-1849'read and fin. City of the Plague'Mary Shelley John WilsonCity of the Plague, and other poemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wilson is publishing a poem entitled "The City of the Plague". It is in the dramatic form and a perfect anomaly in literature. Wilson is a man of great genius and fancy ...James Hogg John WilsonCity of the Plague, TheManuscript: Unknown
1500-1599'[Gabriel Harvey] bought and studied Guazzo's [italics]Civil Conversation[end italics] in the early 1580s.'Gabriel Harvey S. Stefano GuazzoCivil ConversationPrint: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 26 December 1830: 'I shut myself up in Mr. [Henry] Scott's room. He has lately become purchaser of his Grandfather's valuable Library which was collected by Po...Walter Scott Civil war tractsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different...Members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]Civilisation in the Nineteenth CenturyManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica", which on opposite sides [of a controversy between Liberals and Clericals] brea...Mary Augusta Ward Civilta CattolicaPrint: Serial / periodical


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