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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
 
1900-194525 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & so took a month lying down; have not written a line; ...Virginia Woolf Benjamin DisraeliConingsbyPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf Benjamin DisraeliConingsbyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 September 1844: 'I have just read Coningsby. It is very able, & yet scarcely efficient [...] It has no story, & not a g...Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin DisraeliConingsby: or, The New GenerationPrint: Book
1850-1899'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newcomes" by Thackeray "Stuart of Dunleath" by Mrs Norton...Albert Battiscombe Benjamin DisraeliConingsby; or, The new generationPrint: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale Edward YoungConjectures on Original Composition. In a Letter t...Print: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean Antoine de CerceauConjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Walther and some of Rienzi'Mary Godwin Jean Antoine du CerceauConjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty...Print: Book
1800-1849'finish the old man of the mountains - translate & read one book of the conjuration de Rienzi'.Mary Godwin Jean Antoine du CerceauConjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish "les voeux temeraires" - write and read Rienzi'Mary Godwin Jean Antoine de CerceauConjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty...Print: Book
1800-1849'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go up to Diodati - Read Rienzi'.Mary Godwin Jean Antoine du CerceauConjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty...Print: Book
1800-1849'Write & read "Contes Moreaux" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after dinner read Rienzi'.Mary Godwin Jean Antoine du CerceauConjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'Mary Godwin Jean Antoine Du CerceauConjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty...Print: Book
1800-1849'I looked also one evening into Prideaux's "Connections" [...]But my chief employment was [...]the renewed attempt at solving the problem which I met with in the work of ...William Windham Humphrey PrideauxConnections or The Old and New Testament ConnectedPrint: Book
1850-1899I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings. But surely it has just v...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Connoisseur, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings. But surely it has just ...James Boswell [n/a]Connoisseur, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Places"'.Hilary Spalding Naomi MichisonConquered, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read chief part of Helps' "Conquerors of the New World".'John Ruskin Sir Arthur HelpsConquerors of the New WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".'George Eliot [pseud] John Stuart MillConquest in America, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Permit me to ask you to lend me for a few days Washington Irving's last exquisitely written and interesting work - the Conquest of Granada - I want to consult it, and ha...Mary Shelley Washington IrvingConquest of Granada, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams William PrescottConquest of Mexico, ThePrint: Book


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