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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"As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into reasoning upon men and things, the causes of misery, th...Gerald Massey Louis Blanc Print: Book
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1800-1849		S. T. Coleridge, annotation to Schelling: "'A book, I value, I reason & quarrel with as with myself when I am reasoning.'"Samuel Taylor Coleridge F. W. J. von Schelling Print: Book
1700-1799"Lady Mary [Wortley Montagu] used French for some of the (relatively few) notes in her Montaigne." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Michel de Montaigne Print: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson notes recollection of friend of Rupert Brooke, of Brooke in a canoe c.1910-11: "'he would keep the paddle going with his left hand, and with the other make ...Rupert Brooke ?John ?Webster Print: Book
1900-1945Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... Ths holidays I fled from my family for long ... in a ...Rupert Brooke William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarborough Album, and in soliciting contributions of a poe...John Cole George Berrett Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarborough Album, and in soliciting contributions of a poe...John Cole Hermione Ballantyre Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945?One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? from Hans Anderson to Boris Godonof.? Benjamin Britten Hans Christian Anderson Print: Book
1800-1849"By ... [January 1804 Coleridge] ... had probably ... begun to write brief notes, appreciative and explanatory, in copies of the works of Sir Thomas Browne destined for S...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Browne Print: Book
1850-1899'It was in 1886 [...] that Mrs Ward began seriously to read Greek, usually with her ten-year-old son; she bought a Thucydides in Godalming one day and was delighted to fi...Mary Ward Thucydides Print: Book
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be cha...Mary Ward Étienne Pivert de Senancour Print: Book
1600-1699"In Part I of the Religio [Medici] (i:30), [Thomas] Browne confesses himself a writer of marginalia, quoting a passage of Paracelsus that he declare 'I never could pass ....Thomas Browne Paracelsus  Print: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read through the third decade [of Livy's Romanae histori...Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr.Frontinus  Print: Book
1900-1945'...he read widely about working-class life in the district.'Arnold Bennett unknown Print: Book
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Walter Scott 
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Robert Southey 
1700-1799'Janet Schaw and her cousin, sailing from Scotland to the Caribbean, try to keep calm in a terrifying storm by reading Lord Kames ('like philosophers not Christians').'Janet Schaw Lord Kames Print: Book
1700-1799'At the age of five she was caught by her father reading Dryden: 'I dropt my Book and burst into Tears'. However, instead of the expected punishment, her father gave her ...Laetitia Pilkington John Dryden Print: Book
1700-1799'she read much Shakespeare.'Laetitia Pilkington William Shakespeare Print: Book


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