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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'[letter from Mrs Ward to Reginald Smith] I heard such pleasing things about "David [Grieve]" from Lord Arran in Dublin the other day. He knows it absolutely by heart, an...army officersMary Augusta WardDavid GrievePrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from Mrs Ward to Reginald Smith] I heard such pleasing things about "David [Grieve]" from Lord Arran in Dublin the other day. He knows it absolutely by heart, an...Mary Augusta WardDavid GrievePrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter to Mrs Ward from Edward Burne-Jones] The book has just come - and to my pride and delight with such a pretty autograph: so that to-day I am mightily set up. I ca...Edward Burne Jones Mary Augusta WardDavid GrievePrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter from T.H. Huxley to Mrs Ward] You will think I have taken my time about thanking you for "David Grieve"; but a virtuous resolution to stick to a piece of work I ...Thomas Henry Huxley Mary Augusta WardDavid GrievePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844: 'I have just finished the "Chouans". Of a certain power, without any doubt, but very heavy in many parts...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacDavid Sechard, volume 1Print: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the History of Florence and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christian...Sarah Scott Sarah FieldingDavid SimplePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. When ...Sarah Harriet Burney Richard WestallDay in Spring, APrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Anna Sligh TurnbullDay Must Dawn, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Lines written on the Author's being asked why he ceased his Poetical effusions', beginning, 'D...St. George Tucker [attrib.]Days of my YouthUnknown
1850-1899'Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm? Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and you see how she, a person of true artistic soul, revel...Virginia Woolf Margaret SymondsDays Spent on a Doge's FarmPrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Did you ever look at a book written by Wilson, a Scotchman, under the Latin name of Volusenus, according to the custom of literary men a...James Boswell Florentius Volusenus [pseud.]De Animi TranquillitatePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have begun an Imitation of the "De Arte Poetica" of Horace [became his Hints from Horace] ... The Horace I found in the conve...George Gordon Lord Byron HoraceDe Arte PoeticaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 7 April 1843: 'I have read Caesar's commentaries, to be sure, .. but I found them harder to read than his battles were t...Elizabeth Barrett Julius CaesarDe Bello GallicoPrint: Book
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1900-1945		Copious MS notes and doodles throughout. First date "Trevelyan May 1852". One sketch is a drawing of "Alice [his sister] opening a box of soldiers. An anticipation of the...George Otto Trevelyan Thucydides De bello PelloponesiacoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'.Claire Clairmont Francois Rene de ChateaubriandDe Buonaparte, des Bourbons, et de la necessite de...Print: Pamphlet
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Livy's Romanae historiae with reference to passages on ...Gabriel Harvey St AugustineDe Civitate DeiPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed (and translated) in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks on conquerors' impositions of their languages upon new subject peoples in...Edward Morgan Forster St AugustineDe Civitate DeiPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde St AugustineDe Civitate Dei [The City of God]Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return from a library belonging to the dissenters — in Re...Robert Southey Giacomo Filippo Foresti da BergamoDe Claris MulieribusPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emanuel SwedenborgDe coelo et ejus mirabilibus, et de infernoPrint: Book


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