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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
 
1800-1849Never did any poor creature labour with morediligence than I did to obtain the most accurate knowledge of the language. I succeeded, read all the Roman classics, and fast...Anne Lutton ['Roman Classics']Print: Book
1800-1849My circumstances were perhaps well fitted to the task of self-culture - too straitened to admit of much expenditure on books, but sufficiently easy to afford me plenty of...Anne Lutton Virgil Print: Book
1800-1849I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress.Anne Lutton ['Greek Grammar']Print: Book
1800-1849I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin...Anne Lutton New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin...Anne Lutton HomerThe IliadPrint: Book
1800-1849I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin...Anne Lutton HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of Miss Edgeworth's pen were fascinating, and there were...Anne Lutton Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
1800-1849My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of Miss Edgeworth's pen were fascinating, and there were...Anne Lutton [old-school novels]Print: Book
1800-1849My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...Anne Lutton William RobertsonThe History of AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...Anne Lutton J.J. BarthelemyTravels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece,Print: Book
1800-1849My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...Anne Lutton Oliver GoldsmithThe History of England from the Earliest Times...Print: Book
1800-1849My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...Anne Lutton John WesleySermons on Several Occasions OR Three SermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...Anne Lutton The Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849It was Lilly's Latin Grammar. It called for uncommon perseverance to come at its contents, so much had it suffered from the use and abuse of schools... But I was desperat...Anne Lutton William LillyLilly's Latin GrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849Finding an old copy of Barrow's Euclid in my father's bookcase, I resolved to come at some knowledge of mathematics and by my usual persevering application for the Divine...Anne Lutton Isaac BarrowEuclid's Elements. The Whole Fifteen Books CompendPrint: Book
1800-1849I read Mrs Rogers' Life and Letters with great profit. ... The life and letters of Mrs Rogers here made a great blessing to me, also conversation with a person who enjoy...Anne Lutton Hester Ann RogersSpiritual Letters Or A Short Account of the ExperiPrint: Book
1800-1849My brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what a power was at work in our hearts!Anne Lutton 'Scriptures'Print: Book
1800-1849To our young ploughman, who, when I went to him where he was digging in atrench at the foot of the lawn, read the resolutions over carefully, then most reverently uncover...A Young Ploughman [series of 'Resolutions' in manuscript, drawn up bManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'At about age fifteen [Joseph Barker] found an old folio on anatomy and surgery by Helkiah Crooke (physician to James I) and was delighted by "certain parts of the work w...Joseph Barker Helkiah Crooke[medical folio]Print: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean-Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur ...Print: Book


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