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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
 
1850-1899'I liked your John Brown.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyReview in Academy (11 March 1882)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I likewise received the Tales you sent me before from your friend in Edinburgh, and should have acknowledged them long ago; but a multiplicity of family and farming conc...James Hogg [traditional tales]Unknown
1800-1849'I likewise turned into Charles Bossut's Mecanique - to study his demonstration of pendulums, and his doctrine of forces. The text is often tediously explanatory - & in ...Thomas Carlyle Charles BossutMecaniquePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'I literally saw nothing but your ear for a whole hour one night--it is perfectly unlike any ear in Nature--& as Tristram Shandy might say requires a Chapter in itself'.Lady Caroline Lamb Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I look through a newspaper very much in the mood in which I go out for a stroll or light a cigarette by the front door late on a summer evening.' newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I looked also one evening into Prideaux's "Connections" [...]But my chief employment was [...]the renewed attempt at solving the problem which I met with in the work of ...William Windham Humphrey PrideauxConnections or The Old and New Testament ConnectedPrint: Book
1850-1899'I looked for this old diary and read by chance the entry on my birthday, 1873, with my father's "Apocrypha" to refer to, which I had chanced to put forward on my first s...John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'I looked in last week's Examiner thinking there [italics] might [end italics] be an advertisement of the Professor. When do you think it will be out?'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Examiner, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I looked into Lord Kaimes's "Sketches of the History of Man"; and mentioned to Dr. Johnson his censure of Charles the Fifth, for celebrating his funeral obsequies in hi...James Boswell Henry Home, Lord KamesSketches of the History of ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'I looked over the Budget before sending it away to India for Milly Jones.'Anne Jenkins BudgetPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I love Emily and am too much afraid of hurting her. Her book ['The Tigron' - unpublished] is so very personal to her. she seems to wants us and the world to judge it, no...Antonia White Emily ColemanTigron, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[prose works]Print: Book
1700-1799'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart...Hester Lynch Thrale Joseph Addison[prose works]Print: Book
1700-1799'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeDunciad, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart...Hester Lynch Thrale Edward YoungLove of Fame, The Universal PassionPrint: Book
1700-1799'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart...Hester Lynch Thrale Abraham Cowley Print: Book
1700-1799'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart...Hester Lynch Thrale Jean de La Bruyere Print: Book
1800-1849'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear friend Cunninghame the author of The Cameronians Surely ...James Hogg anonBlackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anon. political a...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear friend Cunninghame the author of The Cameronians Surely ...James Hogg Allan Cunningham'Recollections No. I. - The Cameronians' [in Black...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I lunched with him ["a high dignitary of the Anglican Church"] at Shepheard's; and , leaving him for half and hour, during which I rushed home and read all up in Baedek...Ronald Storrs Karl BaedekerEgypt


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