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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
 
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 August 1871, during visit to friends at Ashbourne Green, Derbyshire: 'I have been reading [italics]Episodes of an Obscure Lif...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Richard RoweEpisodes in an Obscure LifePrint: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both...Leonard and Virginia WoolfRobert TrevelyanEpistlePrint: Book
1800-1849'read in the testamentthe Epistle of St John I love that simple hearted expression of brotherly affection & love'John Clare Epistle of St JohnPrint: Book
1700-1799'In a 1735 letter to Lady Hertford, [Elizabeth Singer] Rowe observes that the "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" "Seems to be writ with a malice more than human, and has surely so...Elizabeth Singer Rowe Alexander PopeEpistle to Dr ArbuthnotPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book for L[eonard]. & so home, missing my train, & readin...Virginia Woolf Alexander PopeEpistle to Dr ArbuthnotPrint: Book
1700-1799'Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was simultaneously complemented and embarrassed by Pope's tribute in "Epistle to Mr Gay". She sent a copy of the verses to her sister in Paris,...Mary Wortley Montagu Alexander PopeEpistle to Mr GayUnknown
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I was reading to-day the 5th chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews. I have taken this epistle for a particul...Elizabeth Missing Sewell St PaulEpistle to the HebrewsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In a shop in Buchanan Street, there was exposed a little gold wristlet with 'Phil. 1.3' upon it; look it up in the New Testament and take the text, meine schone Freundin...Robert Louis Stevenson Paul Epistle to the Philippians, I.3Print: wristlet
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition (1682); notes from the 'Epistle to the Whi...Edward Pordage John DrydenEpistle to the WhigsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".'George Bernard Shaw St PaulEpistlesPrint: Book
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be cha...Mary Ward HoraceEpistlesPrint: Book
1900-1945'An hour won. Dryden's Epistles read for pleasure September night windy, dark, warm, and I have read the Epistles of Dryden [sic] 'Reading these Epistles which have no...Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenEpistlesPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between St. Paul and the Corinthians, not to be found in ou...George Gordon Lord Byron St. Paul Epistles to CorinthiansPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821, on memories of Cambridge life with friend Edward Noel Long: 'I remember our buying, with vast alacr...George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Edward Noel Young.Thomas MooreEpistles, Odes and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an ...Mary Shelley Thomas MooreEpistles, Odes and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the "1st Epistle of Horace", Lib. 2 (the celebrated Epistle to Augustus) with the aid of Dacier's notes, and Hurd's Commentary...'Thomas Green HoraceEpistola ad Augustum, annotated by Richard HurdPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge AristaenetusEpistolae graecaePrint: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s comment to C[oleridge] in 1802 suggests a first reading of Pliny's letters years before ... 'I remeber having the same opinion of Plinys [sic] letters whi...William Wordsworth PlinyEpistolarumPrint: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Very extensive reading notes from the sixth edition of James Howell's Epistolę Ho-Elianę familiar letters, dome...Edward Pordage James HowellEpistolę Ho-Elianę familiar letters, domestic and ...Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, a Meditation on Seneca's maxim 'verum gaudium res severa est' (Epistulae morales, 23, 4), headed 'sen. Res severa et verum gaud...Elizabeth Lyttelton SenecaEpistulae morales, 23, 4Print: Book


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