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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
 
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Livy's Romanae historiae with reference to passages on ...Gabriel Harvey Juan Luis VivesCommentary to St Augustine, De Civitate DeiPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James, in letter to William James, 19 May 1873, mentions receiving and reading a "scrap from the Advertiser" (enclosed in letter from William) about his work on Gau...Henry James comments on Henry James's April 1873 North America...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 17 November 1826, in response to her written comments on his Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages: 'I...Uvedale Price Elizabeth Barrettcomments on Uvedale Price, An Essay on the Modern ...Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'But from yesterday's "Commercial Advertiser" I will copy two letters, the reading of which and the consultation thereupon, formed part of the business of the [Anti-Convi...John Mitchel [n/a]Commercial AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Francis Seymour KiddCommon Diseases of the Male UrethraPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]Common Prayer BookPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during the American War.'Claire Clairmont Thomas PaineCommon SensePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Common Sense'Mary Shelley Thomas PaineCommon SensePrint: Book
1900-1945'I asked James if he had read Shaw?s Manifesto. He said "I have it here and have made several attempts, but his horrible flippancy revolts me".? Henry James G. B. ShawCommon Sense about the WarPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William W...Virginia Woolf Gabriel HarveyCommonplace BookPrint: Book
1850-1899'Here is the beautiful Commonplace book awaiting me on my return home! And I give it a great welcome you may be sure; and turn it over, & peep in, and read a sentence and...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Anna JamesonCommonplace Book of Thoughts, APrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Aldridge gave us Henry's "Communicant's Companion" - a fearful book filled with questions which it would have taken months to answer - and I tried to find time for ...Eliazbeth Missing Sewell Matthew HenryCommunicant's CompanionPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes church service attended in London in letter to Mary Hutchinson, 5 May 1820: 'Tom and I went with [Mr Johnson] last Sunday but one to the op...William Coleridge Communion ServicePrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] The excellent Mr. Nelson's "Festivals and Fasts," which has, I understand, the greatest sale of any book ever printed in England, except the Bible, is a ...Samuel Johnson Robert NelsonCompanion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Churc...Print: Book
1700-1799'A Mother was making her Little Son read Nelson's Feasts and Fasts - this says he is a very good book to be sure Mama, all about our Saviourand the Apostles - but surely ...Robert NelsonCompanion for the festivals and fasts of the Churc...Print: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde A.J. ButlerCompanion to DantePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two or three respects so able) Joan of Arc, or Maid of F...Henry James Andrew Langcompendium of English literaturePrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington Bishop PorteusCompendium of the Evidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaCompendium RevelationumPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaCompendium RevelationumPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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