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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
 
1900-1945'Girls in the top forms [at Roedean] were allowed to read ... in a small school library ... but ... [Margaret Cole] forfeited that privilege when a sub-prefect reported h...Margaret Cole Thomas Babington MacaulayEssaysPrint: Book
1700-1799" ... [Alexander Pope's surviving books] allow us to be confident about his having read certain works, such as the essays of Montaigne."Alexander Pope Michel de MontaigneessaysPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		William Blake, in copy of Francis Bacon, Essays: "'Villain! Did Christ seek the Praise of the Rulers?'"William Blake Francis BaconEssaysPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern...Michel de MontaigneEssaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "history of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi...Sarah Scott Francis Lord BaconessaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi...Sarah Scott Michel de MontaigneEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged to you for the volume of Emerson Essays. I had heard of him before and I know that Carlyle rates him highly. He has great thoughts and imaginations, bu...Alfred Tennyson Ralph Waldo EmersonEssaysPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and bet...Mary Berry Michel de MontaigneEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Emerson's Essays? I suppose it is the first immortal Amern book. It has come to me like a visitation of health'.Harriet Martineau Ralph Waldo EmersonEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Bacons essay on the idea of compleat garden divided into every month of the year [...] What beautiful essays these are.'John Clare Francis BaconEssaysPrint: Book
1800-18495 Feb 1836 Mary Birch To John Birch (son) 'How kind it was in you to copy that appropriate passage in Locke; and I, with the assistance of my good and intelligent governe...John Birch John LockeEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Reading - for want of something better - "Macaulay's Essays". He is a born Edinburgh Reviewer, this Macaulay; and, indeed, a type-reviewer - an authentic specimen-page o...John Mitchel Thomas Babington MacaulayEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s eight chaotic volumes are before me. To say nothing o...Thomas Carlyle Francis BaconEssaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read, in the evening, "Temple on the Origin of Government:" in which the source of political power is successfully traced....' [Green usually gives extensive summary co...Thomas Green Sir William TempleEssaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dipped into Bacon's "Essays"; so pregnant with just, original, and striking observations on every topic which is touched, that I cannot select what pleases me most...'Thomas Green Francis BaconEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; I also read all Bacon's "Essays" ....Mountstuart Elphinstone [Francis] BaconEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Edmund Henry Barker, 12 May 1829: 'You desire to have my remarks on Dugald Stewart versus Sir Uvedale [Price]. Some time ago I read Stewart's Ess...Elizabeth Barrett Dugald StewartessaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Edmund Henry Barker, 12 May 1829: 'You desire to have my remarks on Dugald Stewart versus Sir Uvedale [Price]. Some time ago I read Stewart's Ess...Elizabeth Barrett Dugald StewartessaysPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday...Charles B.M. Warren Michel Eyquem (de) MontaigneEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett David HumeEssaysPrint: Book


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