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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'Tuesday July 18th. [...] Read Continuation of the Stories of Old Daniel.' ...Claire Clairmont Lady Mount CashellContinuation of the Stories of Old Daniel: Or Tale...Print: Book
1800-1849'Could you lend me any new publ. - you wd eternally oblige me - not the Contrast - I have read it - But the Fair of May Fair or Arlington -' [letter to Charles Ollier]Mary Shelley Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquis of NormanbyContrast, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue    Dec 19th 1930
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
Min 1 Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]
7 After refres...		Howard Smith Edgar CastleContribution to a symposium: the position of the s...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899H. J. Jackson notes how annotations made in 1871 by Francis Palgrave in his copy of Alfred Russel Wallace, Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection (1870) show de...Francis Palgrave Alfred Russel WallaceContributions to the Theory of Natural SelectionPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 'Sunday Night, June 4th [1809]': 'Nothing but vexation seems to attend me in this affair of the Pamphlet [The Convention of Cintra]....William Wordsworth William WordsworthConvention of Cintra, ThePrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this l...George Gissing Johann Peter EckermanConversations of GoethePrint: Book
1900-1945'At present I am reading Goethe’s conversations with Eckerman. they are nearly as good as Sam Johnson, though in an entirely different vein. You ought to read 'Wilhelm M...Arnold Bennett Johann Wolfgang GoetheConversations of Goethe with Eckerman and SoretPrint: Book
1800-1849'Since my letter to Emma I have read again Medwin's conversations of Byron...'Jessie Sismondi Thomas MedwinConversations of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849"Walter Savage Landor's copy of Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington takes issue with Byron's declaration that if they were married, he and the Co...Walter Savage Landor Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of B...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of study included -- besides English history and exercises...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mrs MarcetConversations on ChemistryPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter dated 1823, to Miss Pickford]. Madame Marcet is a very good guide as far as she goes, but surely respecting the system of pulleys she has not gone quite far enou...Anne Lister Jane MarcetConversations on Natural PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'It was in the autumn of 1827, I think, that a neighbour lent my [Harriet Martineau's] sister Mrs. Marcet's "Conversations on Political Economy." I took up the book, chi...Harriet Martineau Mrs MarcetConversations on Political EconomyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of study included -- besides English history and exercises...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mrs MarcetConversations on Political EconomyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the subject is in a state of astonishment, and those, who ...Anne Romilly Jane Haldimand MarcetConversations on Political EconomyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the subject is in a state of astonishment, and those, who ...James Mansfield Jane Haldimand MarcetConversations on Political EconomyPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:

'Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation [in year following the death...		Charlotte Brontë Johann Peter EckermannConversations with GoethePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoConviviumPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tell my Lord, if he wants to read a good savory ecclesiastical pamphlet, to read Jonas Dennis' "Concio Cleri", a book of about 150 pages. He is the first parson who has ...Sydney Smith Jonas DennisConvocatio CleriPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell cookery booksPrint: Book
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington John DenhamCooper's HillPrint: Unknown


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