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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
 
1850-1899"[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..."George Bernard Shaw Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book
1850-1899"[George] Meredtih's penultimate novel, Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894), was, [Henry] James told Edmund Gosse [in letter of 22 August 1894], 'unspeakable' ... he could ...Henry James George MeredithLord Ormont and his AmintaPrint: Book
1850-1899"[Gladstone's] daughter Mary and her husband, the Revd Harry Drew, read Vendetta together in 1887, noting 'goodish plot but rather rot otherwise'."Harry and Mary DrewMarie CorelliVendettaPrint: Book
1700-1799"[in 29.10.1828 letter to Alexander Dyce] ... W[ordsworth] recalls that 'in 1788 the Ode was first printed from Dr Carlyle's copy, with Mr Mackenzie's supplemental lines ...William Wordsworth William CollinsAn Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlan...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799"[in Aug. 1787 Dorothy Wordsworth] reported that 'I am at present [reading] the Iliad' ... "Dorothy Wordsworth HomerIliadPrint: Book
1900-1945"[in her autobiography Growing up Into Revolution (1949), Margaret Cole] conveys the combination of amusement and delight she and her companions experienced reading Shaw ...Margaret Cole and Girton contemporariesGeorge Bernard Shaw Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		"[In Lark Rise to Candleford (1947)] Flora Thompson recollected young Willie, whose family were village carpenters, being fond of reading, including poetry: 'somehow he h...Willie anon Charles Mackay (ed)A Thousand and One Gems of English PoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849"[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's copy of a set of the Works of the British Poets, in wh...Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworthannotations on Shakespeare's sonnets in The Works ...Manuscript: annotations in printed text
1800-1849"[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's copy of a set of the Works of the British Poets, in wh...William Wordsworth William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849"[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's copy of a set of the Works of the British Poets, in wh...Robert Southey The Works of the British PoetsPrint: Book
1600-1699"[Isaac] Newton had gained international renown following the publication of his Principia in 1679 ... [attaining] something of the status of a demi-god. 'Does he eat an...anon Isaac NewtonPhilosophiae Naturalis Principia MathematicaPrint: Book
1850-1899"[Jessie] Boucherett (b. 1825) ... 'one day ... caught sight, on a railway bookstall, of a number of the Englishwoman's Journal. She bought it, attracted by the title, b...Jessie Boucherett The Englishwoman's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699"[John] Martyn revealed sheets of the [Philosophical] Transactions [containing Henry Oldenburg's remarks on Robert Hooke's Description of Helioscopes] to Hooke as they we...Robert Hooke Henry Oldenburgreview of Robert Hooke, Description of HelioscopesPrint: Serial / periodical, newly printed sheets
1800-1849"[Mark L.] Reed [in Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Middle Years, 1975] judges that [S. T.] C[oleridge] copied this poem ['An unfortunate Mother to her infant at her Br...Samuel Taylor Coleridge An unfortunate Mother to the infant at her BreastUnknown
1600-1699"[Meric Casaubon] described an encounter with a work on Etruscan antiquities which he had come across in a Stationer's shop in London ...Casaubon had found its engravings...Meric Casaubon bogus work on Etruscan antiquitiesPrint: Book
1600-1699"[Meric Casaubon] described an encounter with a work on Etruscan antiquities which he had come across in a Stationer's shop in London ...Casaubon had found its engravings...Meric Casaubon bogus work on Etruscan antiquitiesPrint: Book
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1700-1799		"[Robert] Hooke had been able to read letters in what would otherwise be reckoned darkness, thanks to one of his artificial organs contrived from 'an ordinary double Conv...Robert Hooke lettersUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		"[S. T.] C[oleridge] stayed up until one o'clock in the morning to read Tytler's translation of The Robbers ... "Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerThe RobbersPrint: Book
1700-1799"[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] once left the young W[ordsworth] in his study for a moment and returned to find him reading the Opticks."William Wordsworth Isaac NewtonOpticksPrint: Book
1700-1799"[Thomas] Poole read the Appeal in March 1796; writing to Henrietta Warwick on 2 April, he revealed that 'I have lately perused with much delight La Citoyenne Roland.'" Thomas Poole Marie Jeanne Roland de la PlatiereAn Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Ro...Print: Book


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