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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 Berkeley's paper, no. 55, in the "Guardian". There is this curious inconsistency in it, that setting out with deprecating any intention to turn argum...John Ruskin George [?] BerkeleyGuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson which is very entertaining; I never saw Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides or Western Islands, I suppose it is an amusing Bo...Robert Sharp James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading Carlyle, like all the rest of the world. He has been writing a sort of pamphlet on the state of England called ''Chartism.'' It is full of compassion...Emma Darwin Thomas CarlyleChartismPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.George Eliot [pseud.] Cornewall LewisAstronomy of the AncientsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.George Eliot [pseud.] Simon OckleyHistory of the SaracensPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[books on Astronomical Geography]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[ballads on Bernardo del Carpio]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the ...George Eliot [pseud] FawcettEconomic Condition of the Working ClassesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the ...George Eliot [pseud.] John Stuart MillOn LibertyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the ...George Eliot [pseud.] David Friedrich StraussLife of Jesus [second version]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the ...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown NealeHistory of the PuritansPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading for the first time 2 of yr Tales & am delighted with them. They not only amuse & interest & affect extremely but they amend--and it must be a deligh...Lady Caroline Lamb Amelia OpieunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading Fox's Book of Martyrs - not straight forward; but choice parts, it is a very interesting Book The account of the deaths of Ridley and Latimer (espec...Dorothy Wordsworth John FoxBook of MartyrsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Frank's notes on F., and I am quite delighted with them. The picture is so minute and exact that it is like a written photograph, and so full of tend...Emma Darwin Francis DarwinPreparatory notes to 'The Life and Letters of Char...Manuscript: Preparatory notes for 'The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin', edited by Francis Darwin.
1800-1849'I have been reading Galiani's correspondence. I had no conception that Abbes and ladies wrote to each other in such a style and feel ashamed of my Simplicity and innocen...Sydney Smith Ferdinando Galiani[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading John Racine: it is very standard − damnd[sic] standard, I beg your pardon.[…] I like John Racine, however; the noise is very pleasing and as un...Robert Louis Stevenson Jean RacineunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Lanfrey's memoirs of Napoleon I. It is refreshing to read a Frenchman's book who cares nothing for ''la gloire''... 'Emma Darwin Pierre LanfreyHistory of Napoleon IPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading lately "Les memoires d'un colonel d'Husserds" and "La petite Soeur" two little vaudevilles by Mr Scribe -'Albert Battiscombe Eug?ne ScribeLes memoires d'un colonel d'Husserds: com?die en 1...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading lately "Les memoires d'un colonel d'Husserds" and "La petite Soeur" two little vaudevilles by Mr Scribe -'Albert Battiscombe Eug?ne ScribeLa Petite soeur, com?die vaudeville en 1 actePrint: Book
1700-1799'I have been reading Lavator on self knowledge, and like it much. I find it difficult to confine my attention to what I am reading; books tells us to think clearly and fi...Elizabeth Gurney Lavatorself knowledgePrint: Book


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