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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
 
1500-1599
1600-1699		Virginia F. Stern notes 'a few MS. notes and underlinings' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of Joannes Boccatius, "Compendium Romanae historiae" (1535).Gabriel Harvey Joannes BoccatiusCompendium Romanae historiae, oppido quam succintu...Print: Book
1600-1699'making the boy read to me the life of Julius Caesar and Des Cartes book of music - the latter of which I understand not, nor think he did well that writ it, though a mos...Renatus DescartesCompendium: Renatus DesCartes excellent compendium...Print: Book
1850-1899'To go back to books. H. Martineau's is, I think, the best guide book [to the Lakes].'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Harriet MartineauComplete Guide to the English LakesPrint: Book
1800-1849'At ten the poor infant was reading Smollett's History... She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: "There seem to have been more weak kings than wise ones".'Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Tobias SmollettComplete History of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably.'"Charles Robert Maturin Thomas OtwayComplete PlaysPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably. I speak, perhaps, fr...Charles Maturin Thomas SouthernComplete PlaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Shaw, which is wonderful, but I'm sure I don't understand half of it.'Hilary Spalding George Bernard ShawComplete PlaysPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde Alfred, Lord TennysonComplete PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		??Moore, who is a poet of inspiration, could write in any circumstances. There is no man of the age labours harder than Moore. He is often a month working out the end of ...Charles Robert Maturin Thomas MooreComplete Poems and SongsPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe John MiltonComplete poetryPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918: 'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I understand anything they say; also I have read the whol...Virginia Woolf John Miltoncomplete worksPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde Christopher MarloweComplete WorksPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde Charles DickensComplete WorksPrint: 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 William WordsworthComplete WorksPrint: Book
1900-1945'This valley led us up onto a little Col from whence we looked down into the beautiful Wady Sir [Wadi es Sir] with Arak [Iraq] el Emir lying in the bottom of it and heigh...Gertrude Bell Flavius JosephusComplete WorksPrint: Book
1850-1899'With his first wages Conrad bought a volume of Shakespeare, and at sea he also read Mill's "Principles of Political Economy".'Joseph Conrad William ShakespeareComplete WorksPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?Of Sir Walter Scott I have heard Maturin speak in terms of rapture. He considered his extraordinary productions the greatest efforts of human genius, and often said that...Charles Robert Maturin Sir Walter Scottcomplete works to 1820Print: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary th...

Charles E. Stansfield William WordsworthComposed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 180...Unknown
1850-1899?I was out, behind the yew hedge, reading the "Comtesse de Rudolstadt" when I found my eyes grow weary and looked up from the book.?Robert Louis Stevenson George SandComtesse de Rudolstadt
1800-1849 'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole party joined in, Annabella and her guests taking the ...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke, Rev. Darnell and other house guestsJohn MiltonComusPrint: Book


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