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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'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Mary Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic'Mary Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'Mary Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'.Charlotte Bury Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I have got an old translation of Montaignes essays & hugely delighted am I with this honest egotism...Robert Southey Michel Eyquem de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read...George Gissing Paul BourgetEssais de psychologie contemporainePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 25 February, 1802: 'I reached home [from walk] just before dark ... got tea, and fell to work at German. I read a good de...Dorothy Wordsworth Gotthold Ephraim LessingEssayPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the first Book of Locke's "Essay on the Human Understanding",--in refutation of the doctrine of innate principles...'Thomas Green John LockeEssay concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry Oct 14 1791 'This temporary triumph of irreligion and false philosophy will tear the mark off the monster ?What pains have been taken to promulgate ...Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] David HumeEssay concerning human understandingPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John LockeEssay Concerning Human Understanding, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes o...Mary Godwin John LockeEssay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think ...Marianne Francis John LockeEssay Concerning Humane Understanding, AnPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include extract from Cowley's Essay No. 5 ('The Garden'), dedicated to John Evelyn, and opening: 'I never...Edward Morgan Forster Abraham CowleyEssay no. 5 ('The Garden')Print: Book
1850-1899'Essay on Addison'Sarah Good Thomas Babington MacaulayEssay on AddisonPrint: Book
1800-1849Aubrey De Vere, on how he 'first made acquaintance with Alfred Tennyson's poetry': 'Lord Houghton, then Richard Monckton Milnes, a Cambridge friend of my eldest brothe...Aubrey De Vere Arthur HallamEssay on Alfred Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly LyricalPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-189921 August 1886: 'It is a great effort to me to think of moving; my feeling of desolation makes it difficult for me to decide on any change, and yet I am always eager...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Thomas Babington MacauleyEssay on AtterburyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The best trumpet that I can suggest is to read Thomas Carlyle’s Essay on Burns. Sick as I am of reading anything in which so much as Burns’s name appears, I was really e...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas CarlyleEssay on Burns Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay on Coleridge, this fine evening, when the flies are...Virginia Woolf Sir Leslie Stephenessay on ColeridgePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 20 January 1915: 'I read Essay upon Criticism waiting for my train at Hammersmith. The classics make the time pass much better than the Pall Mall Gazette.' ...Virginia Woolf Alexander PopeEssay on CriticismPrint: Book
1700-1799[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her memory. She told him] 'I could repeat not only all his ...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeEssay on CriticismPrint: Book


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