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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
 
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother the Duke of Devonshire, 15 November 1811: 'Do you wish to see us tonight, G[eorgiana]. with a veil and shawl, near the fire...Mr Canning  Print: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 24 September 1810: 'I am in the middle of [Rousseau's] "Emile." I think parts of it excellent, and t...Harriet Countess Granville Jean Jacques RousseauEmile (vol. 1)Print: Book
1800-1849"In Holywood at the time of the peninsular war 'several would join to buy a number of the Belfast News-letter or of the Commercial Chronicle; or, through the kindness of ...people of Holywood, Ulster newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work concerning which I shall only observe, in the words...Thomas Carlyle William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 volsPrint: Book
1800-1849'In 1816, left alone in Bath by her husband, Mary Shelley records reading "The Solitary Wanderer", Charlotte Smith's "Letters of a Solitary Wanderer" (1799), a collection...Mary Shelley Charlotte SmithLetters of a Solitary WandererPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: 3 pages of ms notes (pencil) on binding pages in form of references giving Book, chapter /verse and a short note on content eg 'Exodus ... 14 ... bees'. The... The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and t...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: one ms note at the end of the text: 'You are a story [?] teller I ... said Mr Joseph Emin'. Some of the page is missing. John Drummond Erskine Joseph EminThe life and adventures of Joseph Emin, an Armenia...Print: Book
1800-1849'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "the siege of Jerusalem" from Tacitus is read by Lake Lucerne, and as they sail to M...Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusSiege of Jerusalem, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "The Siege of Jerusalem" from Tacitus is read by Lake Lucerne, and as they sail to M...Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftLetters written during a short residence in Sweden...Print: Book
1800-1849" ... when he (and all other readers) had failed to decipher the shorthand of [John] Flamsteed's most informed correspondent, Abraham Sharp, [Francis] Baily turned to Cha...Charles Babbage Abraham Sharpshorthand writingsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]: ms note, in pencil, in French, on verso of half-title, may relate to text or may refer to works by authors eg ' ...Esprit...,... La Fontaine...,... Rochefo... AnonFrederic le GrandPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal pencil annotations throughout the book, either English or Persian, mainly appear to comment or disagree with translations eg. p.35 one line of text...John Drummond Erskine Stephen WestonA specimen of the conformity of the European langu...Print: Book
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[Marginalia]: some marginal and text pencil annotations to pp 408-438 only, e.g: p. 408 'Prop.1 Prices are in proportion to the plenty of money ...' has a vertical margi...John Drummond Erskine James SteuartAn inquiry into the principles of political oecono...Print: Book
1800-1849'He [the new apprentice] made selections from the Old and New Testament history, which he read aloud, and upon which he dilated with a force and eloquence that would have...Martin n/aOld and New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Martin] suffered but little violent pain until the day he died. Up to that period he sought amusement in cheerful and entertaining books. A child of his landlady read t... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the books with which the shelves were stored. The "Age o...Charles Manby Smith Tom PaineAge of ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the books with which the shelves were stored. The "Age o...Charles Manby Smith Bishop WatsonApology for the biblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my mother had blotted my name upon the title page: but my t...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar ...Charles Manby Smith William Cobbett[French Grammar]Print: Book


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