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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'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man...Thomas Carlyle Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished the second voluime of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I am near the end of Egmont which I like infinitely be...Jane Baillie Welsh Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has interested me - 'Jane Baillie Welsh Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1700-1799'I told him, that I had been present the day before when Mrs. Montagu, the literary lady, sat to Miss Reynolds for her picture ; and that she said, "she had bound up Mr. ...Elizabeth Montagu Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m trying to get through Spengler?s second volume of The Dec...Winifred Agnes Moore Oswald SpenglerDecline of the WestPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read no more of Boccac[c]io than his description of the plague which is extremely powerful from the hesitation you seemed to have in allowing me to read him I fel...Jane Baillie Welsh Giovanne BoccaccioDecomerone o ver Cento NovellePrint: Book
1800-1849'Boccac[c]io I return! - I have read the introduction and three of the tales which I took by chance from different parts of the book - in the two first my choice was fort...Jane Baillie Welsh Giovanne BoccaccioDecomerone o ver Cento NovellePrint: Book
1850-1899'Jan. 19th. [1862] Princess Alice wrote to my father about the Dedication of the "Idylls" to [her father] the Prince Consort: '[...] Mr Tennyson could not have chosen ...Queen Victoria Alfred TennysonDedication, Idylls of the KingPrint: Book
1850-1899'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had joined us, wanted her little boy to hear my father read....Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonDedication, OEnoneUnknown
1900-1945'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about...Gerald Moore W.W. JacobsDeep WatersPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was reading to-day and I have since finished Miss Martineau's "Deerbrook", a capital novel though it is too full of preaching. It is inferior in execution to Miss Aus...Henry Crabb Robinson Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (writing as Currer Bell) to Harriet Martineau, 7 November 1849: 'When C.B. first read "Deerbrook" he tasted a new and keen pleasure [...] "Deerbrook" ran...Charlotte Bronte Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Sir Arthur Helps to the publisher Macmillan, 'I have lately re-read "Deerbrook" with exceeding delight.'Sir Arthur Helps Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected with his personal private character is very interes...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to Harriet Martineau, in note accompanying copy of Bronte's novel Shirley:

'When C. B. first read Deerbrook he tasted a new...		Charlotte Brontë Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson said, I might see the subject [a controversy about the Church of Scotland] well treated in the "Defence of Pluralities".' Samuel Johnson Henry WhartonDefence of Pluralities, APrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin the Defence of Poesy by Sir P. Sidney.'Mary Shelley Philip SidneyDefence of Poesie, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sir P. Sydneys defence of poetry'Mary Shelley Philip SidneyDefence of Poesie, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyDefence of Poetry, AManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George BullDefensio Fidei NicaenaePrint: Book


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