Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   405 406 407 408 409  410  411 412 413 414 415   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917: 'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't docked 2/- from your £ for it: an undistinguished little...Edward Morgan Forster Benedict SpinozaEthicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hou...Zoe Procter AristotleEthicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The annotations in Wilde's copy of J.E.T. Rodgers's edition of [Aristotle's] "Ethics", which is inscribed "Oscar Wilde, Magdalen College, October 1877", illustrate his p...Oscar Wilde Aristotle EthicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads aloud the view of the French Revolution for a short t...Mary Godwin Joanna BaillieEthwaldPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Delectus, Analecta Graeca Minora, and the old Eton Latin...Alfred Tennyson Eton Latin GrammarPrint: 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. ... ; as much of Hesiod as in the "Eton ...Mountstuart Elphinstone unknownEton SelectaPrint: Book
1850-1899'" " (Swedish)' [The ditto marks are below the words 'Aug.Grand']Sarah Good Tor HedbergEtt EldprofPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you read de Maupassant?s '?tude sur Gustave Flaubert', preface to Bouvard et P?cuchet?from which I quote above? It is a most illuminating business, & one of the be...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantEtude sur Gustave FlaubertPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'Have you read St Pierre? if not, read that most delightful work & you will love the author...Robert Southey Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierreEtudes de la NaturePrint: 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. ... [but included] ; an abstract of St. Pi...Mountstuart Elphinstone Bernardin de Saint-PierreEtudes de la Nature [abstract of]Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having enjoyed his "Etudes et Portraits", in an inscribed copy sent to him a few weeks ...Henry James Paul BourgetEtudes et portraitsPrint: 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 BourgetÉtudes et portraitsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Reybaud's book on Les Reformateurs Modernes'George Eliot [pseud] Louis ReybaudEtudes sur les r?formateurs ou socialistes moderne...Print: Book
1800-1849'For the benefit of my children read "Wonders of the human body" [underlined] describing and explaining by diagram the eye [underlined]. Looked over Pulley's "Etymologica...John Cole PulleyEtymological compendiumPrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked into Pulleyn's Etymological Compendium for Maps &c.'John Cole William PulleynEtymological Compendium for MapsPrint: Book
1850-1899'My Father possessed a copy of Bailey's "Etymological Dictionary", a book published early in the eighteenth century. Over this I would pore for hours, playing with the wo...Edmund Gosse Bailey (ed.)Etymological DictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I attacked it vigorously and perseveringly...Francis Place WilliamsonEuclidPrint: Book
1800-1849Finding an old copy of Barrow's Euclid in my father's bookcase, I resolved to come at some knowledge of mathematics and by my usual persevering application for the Divine...Anne Lutton Isaac BarrowEuclid's Elements. The Whole Fifteen Books CompendPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Mathilde et Eugenie'Mary Shelley Madame de SouzaEug?nie et Mathilde, ou les m?moires de la famille...Print: Book
1800-1849'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverle...Anne Romilly [unknown]Eugene Print: Book


Go to page: [1]   405 406 407 408 409  410  411 412 413 414 415   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design