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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
 
1800-1849From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton - "In 1849 her brother was reading The Seven Lamps of Architecture; he found its author to be 'a great enthusiast and ru...John Heaton John RuskinThe Seven Lamps of ArchitecturePrint: Book
1800-1849Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Burde...John Ruskin George Gordon Lord ByronThe Destruction of SennacheribPrint: Book
1800-1849'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [...] I was exactly in the situation of the consul, Fla...Thomas Babington Macaulay Livy (Titus Livius) History of Rome Book XIIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'in a few days after this I met with a book written by Mr Bunyan the title of the book was the two Covenants in this book the unpardonable Sin was explained this part I s...Joseph Mayett John BunyanTwo covenantsPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure; and we chang...Austen familyMadame de GenlisAlphonsine, or Maternal AffectionPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, May 7 1846 ?Miss Heaton ? told me yesterday that the poetess proper of the city of Leeds was ?Mrs A.? ? as she lives in L...Ellen Heaton Rebecca HeyThe Moral of Flowers (1833) and The Spirit of the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'.Thomas Babington Macaulay PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'.Thomas Babington Macaulay MilnerEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'.Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonPrint: Book
1800-1849In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce.Thomas Babington Macaulay HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'.Thomas Babington Macaulay Virgil Print: Book
1800-1849The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.'Thomas Babington Macaulay FenelonDialogues of the DeadPrint: Book
1800-1849'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible, and I should be very much obliged for one or two m...Thomas Babington Macaulay Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis Print: Book
1800-1849[Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and without doing it with a dictionary like other lessons'.Thomas Babington Macaulay BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ myself in reading, and Mr Preston lends me any book...Thomas Babington Macaulay  Print: Book
1800-1849"He [Mr Morrison] breeds horses, & the colts came up & talked to us, & his great kennelfulls of dogs who came to be patted & generally would easily become a tenant of Wil...Leslie Stephen Anne BronteTenant of Wildfell HallPrint: Book
1800-1849'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale of a hundred cantos...'Thomas Babington Macaulay BoccacioDecameronPrint: Book
1800-1849"The longer you are married, the better you will like it & then I hope you will show proper gratitude to your adviser - not but that you will also heretically deny his in...Leslie Stephen Francois de La RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from the London papers.'Thomas Babington Macaulay  Print: Newspaper
1800-184921/8/1829 ? 'The General gave us an account of the early years of the [French] revolution, the other gentlemen assisting. The evening ended only too soon, but I read in m...Amelia Opie Louise Philippe SegurMemoirs and RecollectionsPrint: Book


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