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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'Despondency---Burn' 'Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care...' [transcribes poem]B.A.T. Herbert Robert BurnsDespondencyUnknown
1800-1849'find my baby dead- Send for Hogg - talk - a miserable day - in the evening read fall of the Jesuits'.Mary Godwin Isaac D' IsraeliDespotism; or the fall of the JesuitsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spirits'.Mary Godwin Isaac D'IsraeliDespotism; or, the Fall of the JesuitsPrint: Book
At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninu...Elizabeth Barrett Susan FerrierDestinyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading Destiny and Inheritance.'Arthur Hallam Susan FerrierDestinyPrint: Book
1850-1899'This morning I have great pleasure in reading "Deucalion" before coffee'John Ruskin John RuskinDeucalionPrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christoph AdelungDeutsche Sprachlehre fur SchulenPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: 'We shall find no where on the earth, I believe, the climate of Paradise; -- not even at Hyeres. In Mdme. Cha...Elizabeth Barrett Henriette Etiennette Fanny ReybaudDeux a deuxPrint: Book
1600-1699'So down to Deptford, reading Ben Johnsons "Devil is an Asse".'Samuel Pepys Ben JohnsonDevil is an AssePrint: 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...Charles Stansfield George SandDevil's Pool, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on her early writings: 'I immediately after [the publication of her first periodical essay] began to write my first work, -- "Devotional Exercises," [.....Harriet MartineauDevotional ExercisesManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read B[ishop]. Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in this life' [...] Read portions of Bryant 'On the plagu...John Cole Lancelot AndrewesDevotionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stansfield. The comparison suggested by Fielding in his b...Pattie Stansfield DhammapadaPrint: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh Alain Rene le SageDiable BoiteauxPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook James Purves-StewartDiagnosis of Nervous DiseasesPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the afternoon I finished "Dialectical Materialism", by David Guest - a promising young philosopher killed in the Spanish War. I find that my own conception of the rel...William Soutar David GuestDialectical MaterialismPrint: Book
1800-1849Solved my doubts, & read half Cebes?s dialogue before I went to bed. It is rather a pleasing than a profound performance, - & on this account as well as on account of th...Elizabeth Barrett CebesDialoguePrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, Dialogue Between a Mother and Child] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'Charles Lamb Mary Anne LambDialogue Between a Mother and ChildManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India. ...;[but includes] Hume's "Dialogue on Na...Mountstuart Elphinstone [David] HumeDialogue on natural religionPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undem...V.W. Garratt Plato DialoguesPrint: Book


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