Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   317 318 319 320 321  322  323 324 325 326 327   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'There is an advertisement prefixed to this number of the "Copper Plate Magazine", in which is given a list of the plates that have already been published in it amongst w...Joseph Hunter John WalkerCopper-Plate MagazinePrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is...Rose Macaulay Robert Michael BallantyneCoral IslandPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[review of the novel. Noted but not reproduced by the editor]Ellen Weeton Anne Louise Stael-HolsteinCorinna, or ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read this book in your garden ... you were absent -- or I co...George Gordon Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-HolsteinCorinnePrint: Book
1800-1849"I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does. In one word, I am dazzled by the genius, provoked by the absurdities, and in admiration of the tas...Maria Edgeworth Germaine De StaelCorinnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Corinne and Livy - S reads Livy'Mary Shelley Madame de StaelCorinnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Corinne & Livy - S reads Corinne'Percy Bysshe Shelley Madame de StaelCorinnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'Mary Shelley Madame de StaelCorinnePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Corinne'Mary Shelley Madame de StaelCorinnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Or perhaps she [Madame de Stael] may wish to have it appear as if she thought so [that English women were less uncouth than they used to be] since she wrote the history ...Anne Romilly Germaine de StaelCorinne, or ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Corinne (42)'.Mary Godwin Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de StaelCorinne, ou d'ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849'Rise - talk and read Corinne' / 'nurse the baby and read Corinne'Mary Godwin Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de StaelCorinne, ou d'ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 9 June 1832: 'I have been reading thro' the eight first chapters of Genesis in Hebrew [...] As I knew the character[s] or some...Elizabeth Barrett Germaine de StaelCorinne, ou L'ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Absurd! Who knows anything about the usages of the Sena...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular Government]: "Well! but there had certainly been elec...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, which suggests that Shakespeare had misread his autho...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had thumbed his translation of Plutarch to rags."Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philaster'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andronicus, & Coriolanus.'Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book


Go to page: [1]   317 318 319 320 321  322  323 324 325 326 327   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design