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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'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of "Sacred Po...James Boswell Matthew Prior[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of "Sacred Po...David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes Matthew Prior[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of "Sacred Po...Samuel Johnson Matthew Prior[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'I assure you she [Mrs Murray] was a Shield to me on the Night when I read my Verses.' [to Murray and others, prior to agreeing on their publication]George Crabbe George Crabbe[verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I assure you, Dear Friend, that I did not read even one line of Signor Hunt's book until it was already published - in fact I didn't have the slightest idea of what it w...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntLord Byron and Some of his ContemporariesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I at home all day. Read part of Hervey's "Meditations".'Thomas Turner James HerveyMeditations among the tombs: in a letter to a ladyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night the following passage from the letter which I had la...David Dalrymple Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night the following passage from the letter which I had la...David Dalrymple Samuel JohnsonHistory of Rasselas, Prince of AbissiniaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night the following passage from the letter which I had la...David Dalrymple Jonathan Swift[satires]Print: Book
1700-1799'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night the following passage from the letter which I had la...James Boswell David Dalrymple[letter to Boswell]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I attended Sunday school with the daughter of the house, finding my enforced study of the Bible very valuable to me.'Hannah Mitchell [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I attended the first meeting of the Philathelic Society - There were many new members, but the society seemed to have undergone no improvement. Jamie Thompson still spe...Thomas Carlyle Thomas IrvingIntroductory AddressPrint: BookManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'I away home; and there spent the evening talking and reading with my wife and Mr Pelling'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I began Grove on the Correlation of the Physical Forces, needing to read it again with new interests after the lapse of years'.George Eliot [pseud] William R. GroveOn the Correlation of Physical ForcesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees...Norman Nicholson Thomas Hardy[nature and the countryside]Print: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees...Norman Nicholson Hudson[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees...Norman Nicholson Jefferies[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees...Norman Nicholson Gilbert White[natural history]Print: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees...Norman Nicholson [unknown][books on birds, animals, snakes, trees]Print: Book
1800-1849'I began Sir John Mo[o]res letters again and am very much struck if the account is true with the bad management there seems to have been at first setting out. I cannot a...Lady Caroline Lamb Sir John MooreA Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in...Print: Book


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