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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 read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired bo...Sarah Harriet Burney Marie, marquise de Sevigne[letters to her daughter - exact title uncertain]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired bo...Sarah Harriet Burney Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy[letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired bo...Sarah Harriet Burney Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SevigneLetters of Madame de SevignePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read somewhere in the Koran, "The fate of every man have we bound about his neck".'Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]KoranPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read Sous Verdun which I liked very much and I am reading Ma Piece which I'm not sure I don't like still better ... It is very early in the morning. Too ear...Maurice Baring Maurice GenevoixSous VerdunPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read Southey and think it so fair and reasonable a book, that I have little or nothing to say about it; so that I follow your advice and abandon it to any one who...Sydney Smith Robert SoutheyThe Life Of Wesley And Rise And Progress Of Method...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read Susan Hopley - the incidents are improbable but the Book took me on - and I kept reading it'.Sydney Smith [Mrs] CroweSusan HopleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read Swinburne's "Jonson" which I will keep for you, it is quite excellent.'Gertrude Bell Algernon Charles SwinburneA Study of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the "Literary Gazette"; the notice of the Life of Bonaparte is quite entertaining, some of the names of the French Revolutionists who were quite familiar abo...Robert Sharp The Literary GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read the "Parish Register" with great attention. It is rather lifeless and wants character and point but I like it for its simplicity and extraordinary resemblanc...James Hogg John GaltAnnals of the ParishPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the 'bright city' and rejoiced to find your criticism of it so agreeable to my own. Milman is certainly a poet, but he takes a flight higher than he can sus...Thomas Carlyle Henry Hart MilmanSamor, the Lord of the Bright CityPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the Briefechsel, a second time, with no little satisfaction; and even today am sending off an Essay on Schiller, grounded on that work, for the Foreign Revie...Thomas Carlyle Schiller & GoetheCorrespondencePrint: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1800-1849'I have read the Budget today and am in low spirits at the provoking prosperity of the country. It is impossible to ruin it in spite of all Brougham can say - and Perceva...Sydney Smith [n/a][The Budget]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read the first chapter of Genesis the beginning of which is very fine but the sacred historian took a great deal on credit for this world when he imagines that go...John Clare The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel perfectly reconciled to having a Freebooter for a Her...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottFortunes of Nigel, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel perfectly reconciled to having a Freebooter for a Her...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottPirate, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read the four PIL which we have had. They seem to give all the information required accurately and clearly, but sometimes they have tried to put things too cl... Ministry of Informationpublic information leafletsPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.Thomas Babington Macaulay Elizabeth Montague[essay on Shakespeare]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.Thomas Babington Macaulay unknownHistory of James IPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.Thomas Babington Macaulay Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book


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