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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 cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay SallustunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay CaesarunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay CicerounknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay AristophanesunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National"....George Eliot (pseud) Henri Milne-Edwards[work on Zoology]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National"....George Eliot (pseud) Harriet Martineau[article on Missions in the Westminster Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National"....George Eliot (pseud) various[articles in the National]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National"....George Eliot (pseud) W.H. HarveyThe Sea-side BookPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National"....George Eliot (pseud) unknownThe Lover's SeatPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have corrected all the proofs of The Old Wives Tale — 578pp. I am sure Tertia is wrong about those two chapters. I deliberately lowered the tension in the last ...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantUne Vie Print: Book
1900-1945'I have corrected all the proofs of The Old Wives Tale — 578pp. I am sure Tertia is wrong about those two chapters. I deliberately lowered the tension in the last ...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettThe Old Wives TalePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have dipped into Mr Harrison; in fact almost read it, here & there in bits - I feel as if in one or two places I could have told him more, or set him to rights; but th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick Harrison[MS of impressions of manufacturing districts of L...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before m...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before m...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Crabbe Print: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before m...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alexander Pope Print: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before m...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Dryden Print: Book
1800-1849'I have done little since I wrote last but revised Leslie's conics, and read a part of Laplace's 'exposition du systeme du monde' not the mecanique celeste for I alas, am...Thomas Carlyle Simon-Pierre LaplaceExposition du systeme du mondePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have done rather an amusing paragraph or two for "Vanity Fair" on the "Inn Album". I have slated R.B. pretty handsomely.Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BrowningThe Inn AlbumPrint: Book, Unknown
1700-1799'I have done to read "Grandisson" that book has amused me vastly'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have done, as usual, almost nothing since we parted- Some one asked me with a smile, of which I knew not the meaning, if I would read that book, putting into my hands ...Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book


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