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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
 
1800-1849'I am reading & have nearly read, a Work upon Enthusiasm, [the] 3d Edition, the author unknown to me, but a thinking Man of good Sense & a stedd[y] Believer in what he do...George Crabbe [unknown][unknown work on religious enthusiasm]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading ''Paradise Regained'' (sandwiched with Rousseau's ''Confessions'') out of compliment to Mr Bright, who used to read it through every Sunday.'Emma Darwin John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading ''Paradise Regained'' (sandwiched with Rousseau's ''Confessions'') out of compliment to Mr Bright, who used to read it through every Sunday.'Emma Darwin Jean-Jaques RousseauThe Confessions of Jean-Jaques RousseauPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading 'Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour'. Rather good.'Arnold Bennett R.S. SurteesMr Sponge's Sporting TourPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading a delicious book called The Wandering Scholars - I wish I knew Latin.'Vita Sackville-West Helen WaddellThe Wandering ScholarsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading a lovely book "And so to Bath" by Cecil Roberts. I must try to get it at home next hols.'Hilary Spalding Cecil RobertsAnd So to BathPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading a short 'Etude' of Scherer on Goethe, in which I so heartily agree that I enjoy it.'Emma Darwin Wilhelm Scherer Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I am reading a sweet book, "The Farthing Spinster", by Catherine Dodd. Some of the passages about gardens are beautiful. Here are some of the most lovely [...] from th...Hilary Spalding Catherine DoddFarthing Spinster, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading a very thick fiction book, although we have to give them in by Monday. Dangerous!... We had a super day doing nothing! I read the whole time "My Brother Jo...Hilary Spalding Francis Brett YoungMy Brother JonathonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'George Eliot [pseud] Hermann von Helmholtz[book on music]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][books on plants]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am reading again Madame du Deffand. God forbid I should be as much in love with anybody (yourself excepted) as the poor woman was with Horace Walpole!'Sydney Smith (ed.) Mary Berry[letters of Mme. du Deffand to Horace Walpole]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading at present, for the second time, the Celtic plays of Yeats. I must try & get them next time I am at home.'Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Bartelemi's Anacharsis. which forms a sort of Appendix or rather comentary to the Grecian History I was so much taken up with last summer. Without such a pr...Sarah Harriet Burney Jean-Jacques BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en GrecePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Brimley's ''Essay on Tennyson'', and I really think it will set me on reading some of his poems.' [But, she added later] 'My reading of Tennyson is come to ...Emma Darwin Alfred, Lord TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Brimley's ''Essay on Tennyson'',and I really think it will set me on reading some of his poems.'Emma Darwin George BrimleyEssays, by the Late George BrimleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading Carlyle as usual. What a man! ... When I read men like C., I pant along happily at their skirts, thinking myself safe and then, not even knowing I'm there, ...Antonia White Thomas Carlyle[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Caspar Hauser - its being an invention takes from the interest - if it were true it wd be a deeply exciting work - It reminds me much of Calderon's La Vida ...Mary Shelley Anselm von FeurbachCaspar HauserPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Clarendon's Hist. Rebell. at present with which I am more pleased than I expected, which is saying a good deal'.Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Hyde (1st Earl of Clarendon)The True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion and...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am reading for the second [time] "The System of Nature", by Holbach and Diderot, if every one would read it, they would soon discover, by reasoning the most correct & ...Anna Doyle Wheeler Baron Paul Henrich Dietrich d'HolbachLe Systeme de la naturePrint: Book


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