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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"Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of W[ordsworth] and then of D[orothy] W[ordsworth]."William Wordsworth Paul HentznerA Journey into EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799"Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of W[ordsworth] and then of D[orothy] W[ordsworth]."Dorothy Wordsworth Paul HentznerA Journey into EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849"Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-dust would have been better- RB" [He has also starred ...Samuel Rogers'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Roger...Print: Book
1900-1945"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorses many of the volumes in his collection of books about spiritualism and parapsychological experience with a signed note on the title page: ...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle L. Margery BazettAfter-Death CommunicationsPrint: Book
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."Leslie Stephen Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Print: Book
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."Leslie Stephen Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."Leslie Stephen Lowell Print: Book
1850-1899"Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less full of poetic power and beauty."Samuel Smiles Gerald MasseyLyrics of LovePrint: Book
1850-1899"Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less full of poetic power and beauty."Samuel Smiles Gerald MasseySongs of ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945"Thanks for the '1st men in the moon', I have already finished it and enjoyed it very much."Clive Staples Lewis H.G. WellsThe First Men in the MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945"The 'Straight from the Beach at Dunkirk' you mean? I ask you....To be quite candid I've never seen anything so ridiculous in all my life. Yesterday I read it in the pape... newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799"The books in which Pope's annotations, though scanty, are undoubtedly authentic include a copy of the racy poems of the Earl of Rochester in which Pope filled in some of...Alexander Pope John Wilmot Earl of RochesterpoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799"The following remarks made by the compilers of the Monthy Review for 1788, page 286, are so applicable to the present subject, that I hope my introducing the passage wil...James Lackington Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"The habits and tastes of Mr Opie were, happily, very inexpensive... [he and his wife] spent the evening hours in converse ... reading with her books of amusement or inst...John Opie [various books, fiction in particular]Print: Book
1800-1849"The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme [...] Rousseau's confessions, volume and page, first...Anne Lister Jean Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1850-1899"The inn was shut up; but Mr Walker's friend (I suppose) had just looked in to see after his property & was quite amiable & showed me a newspaper cutting with a comic poe...Leslie Stephen [a thief] [comic poem]Print: Newspaper
1600-1699"The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote: "'My Coz. Maria read Ovid's Metamorphosis to me. "'The 14...Maria Ovid MetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699"The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote: "'My Coz. Maria read Ovid's Metamorphosis to me. "'The 14...Wat Conniston Josephus  Print: Book
1850-1899"The little ones were very good: all 3 sitting on my knee to look at the bear book & listening whilst Nessa explained with great elocution what you were to do if you met ...Leslie Stephen ["The Bear Book"]Print: Book
1800-1849"The longer you are married, the better you will like it & then I hope you will show proper gratitude to your adviser - not but that you will also heretically deny his in...Leslie Stephen Francois de La RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: Book


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