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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
 
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Arthur WeigalEgyptian PrincessPrint: Book
1800-1849'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original production that ever this country gave birth to and another ...James Hogg Anne GrantEighteen Hundred and Thirteen: A PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lookd into the two vols of Sermons from Lord R. the texts are well selected and the sermons are plainly and sensibly written they are in my mind much superior to Blairs ...John Clare Anonymous Eighteen Sermons Intended to EstablishPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 1 October 1905: 'We have had visitors for the last 4 weeks [...] I have written quite a lot [...] Also I have read a good deal,...Virginia Stephen eighteenth-century textsPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, March 1, 1832: "In the evening I read a part of Pindar’s 8th Olympic. And de Genlis’s story of Delphine in the Tales of the castle, which I like because ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarEighth Olympian OdePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Eikon BasilikePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'George Eliot Willhelmine von HillernEin Arzt der SeelePrint: Book
1850-1899'Sept. (Trans. into German)'Sarah Good Bjornstjerne BjornsonEin Frohlicher BurschPrint: Book
1850-1899'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun...George Eliot [pseud] Adolf StahrEin Jahr in ItalienPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Ended reading Jan.22 XXVIII? on the inside front cover of vol. 1. Vernon Lee Lujo BrentanoEine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung En...Print: Book
1900-1945Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Finished reading this volume 29 Feb 1928? on the inside cover on vol. 2. Vernon Lee Lujo BrentanoEine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung En...Print: Book
1900-1945Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. Volume 3 is published in 1929.Vernon Lee Lujo BrentanoEine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung En...Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday [...] January 7th. [...] Begin reading Gothe's translation of Benvenuto Cellini's Memoirs.' [records another reading from this text, with Chretien-Hermann ...Claire Clairmont Benvenuto CelliniEine Geschichte des XVI JahrhundertsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottfried EichhornEinleitung in das Neue TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottfried EichhornEinleitung in das Neue TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottfried EichhornEinleitung in das Neue TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Karl GroosEinleitung in die AesthetikPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottfried EichhornEinleitung in die apokryphischen SchriftenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottfried EichhornEinleitung in die apokryphischen SchriftenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottfried EichhornEinleitung ins Alte TestamentPrint: Book


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