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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
 
1900-1945'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'Katherine Mansfield unknownCosmic AnatomyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nehemiah GrewCosmologica Sacra OR A Discourse of the UniversePrint: Book
1850-1899?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam...Samuel Bailey Alexander van HumboldtCosmosPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am just now (when at home) reading 'Cosmos', a sketch of a physical description of the universe. Parts of it are very interesting, but others of too deeply scientifi...Eliza Ellis Alexander von HumboldtCosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of th...Print: Book
1700-1799'Returned from S. Read as I came along a considerable part of "Cotoni Posthuma" which Mr M[anley] lent me.'Joseph Hunter Robert CottonCotoni Postuma: Divers Choice Pieces of the RenownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen the little book, "Cottage Dialogues", by Mrs Leadbetter? Edgeworths notes are lively and [nationally] characteristic as ever: but I own, I tired a little o...Sarah Harriet Burney Mary LeadbetterCottage Dialogues Among the Irish PeasantryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen the little book, 'Cottage Dialogues', by Mrs Leadbetter. Edgeworth's notes are lively and [nationally] characteristic as ever: but I own I am tired a littl...Sarah Harriet Burney Mary Leadbetter and Maria EdgeworthCottage Dialogues Amongst the Irish PeasantryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Graham, the maker of this hat, is a poor but industrious woman, about five-and-thirty years of age, resident with her husband and daughter, in a cottage belonging to...Mrs Graham William CobbettCottage Economy: A New EditionPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'On reading the first sheets [of her "Cottagers of Glenburnie"] at her own fire-side, she was encouraged by observing, that it excited mirth. This induc...Elizabeth Hamilton Elizabeth HamiltonCottagers of Glenburnie, TheManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'At the Coffee-house in Exchange=alley I bought a little book, "Counsell to Builders", written by Sir Balth. Gerbier; it is dedicated almost to all the men of any great c...Samuel Pepys Sir Balth. GerbierCounsel and advise to all builders; for the choice...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read Count Hannibal by Stanley Weyman ... Aft. Rugger. Officers 4 Men 3.'William Thomas Stanley John WeymanCount HannibalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nearly finished the life of Tolstoy - very difficult person. Glad he was no relation of mine. Saints seem as difficult as geniuses . . . Tolstoy was both, and I don'...Vere Hodgson Emile DillonCount Leo Tolstoy: A New PortraitPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "The Count of Monte Cristo" (abridged) which is simply superb. Bought "Song of Bernadette" at last.'Hilary Spalding Alexandre DumasCount of Monte Cristo, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Received a parcel from Elsie containing tobacco (most welcome), papers and a little book of war poems called [italics] Counter-attack [end italics] by Siegfried Sassoon....Albert John Martin Siegfried SassoonCounter-Attack and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The only gleam of romance I had in connection with the place [a house in John St, Bedford Row, London] was derived from the fact that the large bare house reminded me of...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Laetitia HawkinsCountess and Gertrude, The; or, Modes of Disciplin...Print: Book
1900-1945'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following. 1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge 2. A paper by E.E. Unwin on the neo-Irish theatre 3...Members of XII Book ClubWilliam Butler YeatsCountess CathleenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she lived. We were given some indication of her passion...Florence E. Reynolds George SandCountess of Rudolfstadt, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'read the Arcadia'Mary Shelley Philip SidneyCountesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, THePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'Mary Shelley Philip SidneyCountesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'Percy Bysshe Shelley Philip SidneyCountesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, ThePrint: Book


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