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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Robert Story [...] read his first real book, Watts' "Divine Songs for Children", with "my heart burning and with secret rapture"'. Robert Story Isaac WattsDivine Songs for ChildrenPrint: Book
1600-1699'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of late have taken up to read, and is very fine as any...Samuel Pepys Guillaume de Salluste du BartasDivine weekes and workesPrint: Book
1600-1699'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of late have taken up to read, and is very fine as any...Elizabeth Pepys Guillaume de Salluste du BartasDivine weekes and workesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looking over the Ayrshire Legatees, which I do not like a...Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de StaelDix Années d'exilPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histo...Mary Russell Mitford Benjamin Nicolas Marie AppertDix Ans a la cour du roi Louis-Philippe et souveni...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her grea...Mary Augusta ward Emile FaguetDix-Huitieme Siecle: Études Littéraires Print: Book
1800-1849'I hope you have read and admired Doblado. To get a Catholic Priest who would turn King's Evidence is a prodigious piece of good luck, but it may damage the Catholic ques...Sydney Smith Joseph Blanco WhiteDoblado's Letters from SpainPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately': 'Alfieri's "L...Fanny Kemble Christopher MarloweDoctor FaustusPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impressed by him than I should be, that I read Cymbelin...Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweDoctor FaustusPrint: Book
1900-1945The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under Thos. C Elliot Faustus R H Robson Metistopholes [sic] A Rawl...Live dramatic reading featuring T. C. Elliott, R. H. Robson, and A. Rawling of XII Book ClubChristopher MarloweDoctor FaustusUnknown
1900-1945The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under Thos. C Elliot Faustus R H Robson Metistopholes [sic] A Rawl...Reginald H. Robson Christopher MarloweDoctor FaustusUnknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes li...Charles Stansfield Anthony TrollopeDoctor ThornePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding George Bernard ShawDoctor's DilemmaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his work. H.M. Wallis gave a reading from "The Doctor's...Henry Marriage Wallis George Bernard ShawDoctor's Dilemma, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'All this has done me good like the word in 'The Doctor &c', which relieved the author so much.' ['all this' refers to a rhapsodic description of alpine scenery encoun...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Robert SoutheyDoctor, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Milton on divorce'Mary Shelley John MiltonDoctrine and Discipline of Divorce, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40): 'The other day at the Athenaeum I took up one of the volumes of the "Documens pour servir a l'Histoire de France,...George Grote Victor CousinDocumens pour servir a l'Histoire de FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 February 1821: 'Today read a little in Louis B.'s Hollande ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Louis BuonaparteDocuments Historiques, et Reflexions sur le Gouver...Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945Monday 3 March 1930: 'Rodmell again [...] Suppose health were shown on a thermometer I have gone up 10 degrees since yesterday, when I lay, mumbling the bones of Dodo: if...Virginia Woolf E. F. BensonDodoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Langridge has been chatting with the two orderlies who help us here, from the famous regiment now holding this part of the line. One of them was reading Dodo just...Edward Frederic BensonDodo: A Detail of the DayPrint: Book


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