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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'Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I was shocked and delighted by "Eothen." I remember bei...Margaret Oliphant Alexander William KinglakeEothenPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "Have you ever read 'Eothen' a book of Eastern travels. I have just been reading it."Henry James A. W. KinglakeEothenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Travels in the East called Eothen, they are by a Mr Kinglake of Taunton a Chancery Barrister, and are written in a very lively manner; they will amuse Lord Grey who...Sydney Smith Alexander William KinglakeEothen, or Traces of Travel brought home from the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Horne Tooke is a dirty dog - he gives the derivation of such words! - There sits Mr Wilbraham two hours every morning in the library, sniggering and shaking his fat side...Sarah Harriet Burney John Horne TookeEpea Pteroenta, or the Diversions of PurleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not like your Tragedy; there is little interest in it; no material fault but the absence of anything very good. I am not the less obliged to you for sending it. You...Sydney Smith T.H. ListerEpicharisUnknown
1800-1849'Read 31 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & Epicoene or the silent woman'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonEpicoene, or the Silent WomanPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman. I am reading her because we now read plays at 46 [G...Virginia Woolf Ben JonsonEpicoene, or The Silent WomanPrint: Book
1900-1945There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robson as Truewit.Charles I. Evans Ben JonsonEpicoene, or the Silent WomanUnknown
1900-1945There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robson as Truewit.George Burrow Ben JonsonEpicoene, or the Silent WomanUnknown
1900-1945There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robson as Truewit.Reginald H. Robson Ben JonsonEpicoene, or the Silent WomanUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'I have an old commonplace book, into which [...] I had copied an epigram by Thomas Hood. It runs as follows...Alfred Tennyson Thomas HoodepigramManuscript: Unknown, In hand of Frederick Locker-Lampson, in commonplace book belonging to him.
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'I have an old commonplace book, into which [...] I had copied an epigram by Thomas Hood. It runs as follows...Frederick Locker-Lampson Thomas HoodepigramUnknown
1700-1799J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751: 'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; but his brother is, who is [...] very ingenious, and e...J. Duncombe and others in Cambridge GrahamepigramUnknown
1800-1849'De Qunicey's letter of 27 Aug 1810 to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] contains the last two lines of [John] Byrom's epigram ... which she in turn copied in her letter to Catherin...Thomas De Quincey John ByromEpigram on the Feuds Between Handel and BononciniUnknown
1800-1849'De Qunicey's letter of 27 Aug 1810 to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] contains the last two lines of [John] Byrom's epigram ... which she in turn copied in her letter to Catherin...Dorothy Wordsworth John ByromEpigram on the Feuds Between Handel and BononciniManuscript: Letter
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a senten...David Garrick MartialEpigramsPrint: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a senten...David Garrick MartialEpigramsPrint: Book
1700-1799'of Elphinstone's specimen of Martial he [Johnson] said, there was too much Folly in them for Madness, and too much Madness for Folly'. Samuel Johnson MartialEpigramsPrint: Book
'I could not help thinking the other Day as I read the Epigram of Martial ending thus Iam dic Posthume de tribus Capellis. that it would have a good effect enough i...Hester Lynch Thrale MartialEpigramsPrint: Book
1900-194512 September 1921: '[James Strachey] is the easiest & gayest of companions. Here he leapt onto my bed, directly I left it, & lay reading Jane's pamphlet.'James Strachey Jane HarrisonEpilegomena to the Study of Greek ReligionPrint: Pamphlet


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