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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"Whilst the Viscountess Rhondda had taken with her [to prison, where sent as suffragettte] Morley's Life of Gladstone and ... famous speeches of famous men, she resorted ...Viscountess Rhondda Edna LyallnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899"Why do you say that I don't like Dante? I read him through with the help of your crib & was profoundly impressed."Leslie Stephen Dante Alighieri Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"William Carleton got the perusal of Gil Blas from a 'pedlar, who carried books about for sale, with a variety of other goods'."William Carleton Alain-Rene Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1850-1899"Winnie Seerbohm, who left Newnham College, Cambridge in November 1885 after only one term's study, suffered from what seems retrospectively to have been nervous asthma c...Winnie Seerbohm John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1700-1799"Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France," D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796."Dorothy Wordsworth Patrick BrydoneA Tour through Siciliy and Malta in a Series of Le...Print: Book
1700-1799"Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France," D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796."Dorothy Wordsworth Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1600-1699"Writing about himself in the third person, Robert Boyle ... blamed his short attention span on poor reading habits: he complained that reading a romance as a boy had 'ac...Robert Boyle romancePrint: Unknown
1700-1799"W[ordsworth] owned and read the French translation of Coxe during his residence in France, 1791-2."William Wordsworth William CoxeLettres de M. William Coxe a M. W. Melmoth sur l'e...Print: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth] read the copy [of John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable] preserved today in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library ..."William Wordsworth John FoxeActs and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Mem...Print: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth] recollected that at Hawkshead ... ' ... I, with the other boys of the same standing, was put upon reading the first six books of Euclid, with the exception ...William Wordsworth EuclidElements I-IV, VIPrint: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s comment to C[oleridge] in 1802 suggests a first reading of Pliny's letters years before ... 'I remeber having the same opinion of Plinys [sic] letters whi...William Wordsworth PlinyEpistolarumPrint: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s note to Descriptive Sketches 428 reads: 'These summer hamlets are probably (as I have seen observed by a critic in the Gentleman's Magazine) what Virgil a...William Wordsworth Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s note to Guilt and Sorrow 81 acknowledges a borrowing 'From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-graduate, by my schoolfellow and friend Charles Faris...William John Bernard Farish Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s note to Guilt and Sorrow 81 acknowledges a borrowing 'From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-graduate, by my schoolfellow and friend Charles Faris...Charles Farish John Bernard Farish Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899"Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -since these magicians were now first revealing themse...Edmund Gosse John Ruskin Print: Book
1850-1899"Yet I could not but observe the difference with zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin- since these magicians were now first revealing themselves to...Edmund Gosse Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
1850-1899"You say you have been reading some French novels lately. I am much given to that amusement though I never read de Musset - by the way. I don't quite agree with yr praise...Leslie Stephen [Some French novels]Print: Book
1850-1899"You say you have been reading some French novels lately."Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. [Some French novels]Print: Book
1800-1849"[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, when he read it through [in Lamb's copy of Daniel's P...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielThe History of the Civil WarPrint: Book
1800-1849"[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, when he read it through [in Lamb's copy of Daniel's P...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielThe History of the Civil WarPrint: Book


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