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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[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von SchellingEinleitung zu seinem Entwurf eines Systems der Nat...Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has given me his entire library, to take whatever I like. I...Elizabeth Smith ZimmermanEinsamkertPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the book which is excellent and super excellent; even to the point of making me uneasy lest its true and vibrating notes be lost in the beating of the pa...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)EITHER Between St Dennis and St George: A Sketch ...Print: Book
1850-1899'I had a good lunch at Calais — how I love the lunch at Calais don't you! — and am now extremely comfy in a sleeping compartment all to myself. The train is n...Gertrude Bell Arthur Edward J. LeggeEither Mutineers OR Both Great and SmallPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.' Joseph Conrad W. H. (William Henry) Davieseither The Bird of Paradise and other Poems OR Na...Print: Book
1850-1899'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very ...Mary Augusta Ward El Cantar de Mio Cid Print: Book
1900-1945'Mon. 9-11 Tennis[.] Weak. Then read Eldorado by Baroness Orczy. No letter. [Thomas then lists debts incurred in that day's round of roulette games.]William Thomas Baroness OrczyEl Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet PimpernelPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tr...Percy Bysshe Shelley Pedro Calderon de la BarcaEl magico prodigiosoPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tr...Percy Bysshe Shelley Pedro Calderon de la BarcaEl principe constantePrint: Book
1900-1945‘When I clamp-clump-clamp-clumped into the Poetry Bookshop on Thursday, the poetic ladies were not a little surprised. The Readings were from Rabindranath Tagore, rea...Wilfred Owen Emmuska, Baroness OrczyEldoradoPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Winifred DarchEleanor in the FifthPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read J. H. A. Macdonald's speech with interest.'Robert Louis Stevenson John Hay Athole Macdonaldelection speechUnknown
1800-1849Before breakfast from line 36-86 Sophlocles 'Electra'Anne Lister SophloclesElectraPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.Percy Bysshe Shelley SophoclesElectraPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Sophocles the day after we came -- the Electra, which ...Virginia Woolf Sophocles ElectraPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea ... My beloved Will...William Wordsworth Charlotte SmithElegiac SonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know whether you wished me to retain the copy, but I shall ret...George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Belgrave HoppnerElegyManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Talking of Vixisse it may not be impertinent to notice that Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since...His poetical talent - a very fine ...Walter Scott Michael BruceElegy - Written in SpringUnknown
1800-1849'On leaving Newstead Abbey ... >From Newstead Sept 9th 1830'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronElegy on NewsteadUnknown
1800-1849'It is the voice of the years that are gone! They roll before me with all their deeds. Ossian! Newstead! Fast falling, once resplendent dome!/...' 'Elegy on Newstead Abb...Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronElegy on Newstead AbbeyUnknown


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