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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'In December 1810 a box of books arrived and the family began to read a novel which they "liked very much". This book is "modern Philosophy", whose anti-heroine, "Miss Bi...Harriet Grove Elizabeth HamiltonMemoirs of Modern PhilosophersPrint: 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 
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 Constantin VolneyLes ruinesPrint: 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 Thomas PaineThe Rights of ManPrint: 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 Thomas PaineThe Age of ReasonPrint: 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 James LawrenceThe Empire of the NairsPrint: 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 Mary WollstonecraftVindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter from Sedgwick to William Ainger dated 22/5/1815 says the former is reading Beasobre, and 'the task is a confounded dry one'.Adam Sedgwick Issac de BeasobreIntroduction to the reading of the Holy ScripturesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Ellinor, or the World as it is, by M.A.Hanway. 4 vols. An entertaining production written in a light, easy style [editor does not reproduce all of Weeton's comments] [Th...Ellen Weeton Mary Ann HanwayEllinor, or the World as it is (A Novel in Four Vo...Print: Book
1800-1849'The Royal Sufferers, or Intrigues at the Close of the 18th Century. by J.Agg. 3 vols.' [no commentary on the text: part of list of texts read]Ellen Weeton John AggThe Royal Sufferer; or, Intrigues at the close ofPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished the last "Tales of My Landlord" of which the fourth volume is the worst. I think Walter Scott has the peculiar art of growing worse and worse yet preserving his...Benjamin Newton Walter ScottTales of my Landlord or Black Dwarf and old MortalPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saw the death of Sir S. Romilly by his own hand in a feverish frenzy in the "St James' Chronicle" this morning, in consequence of the loss of his wife.'Benjamin Newton n/aSt James' ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read Tuckey's Voyage to the Congo or Zaire, seems to have brought on the mortality that precailed in his crew by sleeping too much in the open air, by the quantity of wo...Benjamin Newton James Hingston TuckeyNarrative of an expedition to explore the river ZaPrint: Book
1800-1849'The thermometer never being above 80 or under 69 and the "St James' Chronicle" says today that while British troops were storming a fort in the E Indies the thermometer ...Rev Benjamin Newton n/aSt. James' ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'the papers announce the death of the King of Wurtemberg'.Benjamin Newton n/a[newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Afternoon reading some History of the Devil'.Adam Mackie Daniel DefoeHistory of the Devil or The Political History of tPrint: Book
1800-1849'Spent the evening reading History of the Devil, a shallow subject.'Adam Mackie Daniel DefoeThe Political History of the DevilPrint: Book
1800-1849'E- being called out for a few hours in the morning I attempted to amuse myself with Marmontel's Tales- it was but an attempt. For I hurried thro' them 'quite upon thorns...William Upcott Jean Francois MarmontelMoral TalesPrint: Book


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