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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'Last night I was led to read "Expectans expectavi", and to understand it for the first time.'John Ruskin [unknown]Expectans expectaviPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Exper: of Sister of Mercy.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Margaret GoodmanExperiences of an English Sister of MercyPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf H. G. WellsExperiment in AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 21 November 1934: 'I am reading, with interest & distaste, Wells'. Virginia Woolf H. G. WellsExperiment in AutobiographyPrint: Book
Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read his Au[tobiograph]y. Thought him a little squit [......John Maynard Keynes H. G. WellsExperiment in AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.

[...] ...		Alice Joselin Alice JoselinExperiment in EducationManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Since I wrote to you I have read Dr Bell's Book upon Education ... it is a most interesting work and entitles him to the fervent ...William Wordsworth Andrew BellExperiment in Education made at the Asylum of Madr...Print: Book
1900-1945'He had been reading, she said, J.W. Dunne's "Experiment with Time" - also Einstein and Addington.'Arnold Bennett J.W. DunneExperiment with Time, AnPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and to my office; wrote by the post, and then to read a little in Dr Powre's book of discovery by the Microscope, to enable me a little how to use and what t...Samuel Pepys Henry PowerExperimental philosophy...containing new experimen...Print: Book
1600-1699'After dinner, to my chamber and made an end of Dr Powre's book of the Microscope, very fine and to my content'Samuel Pepys Henry PowerExperimental philosophy...containing new experimen...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to supper anon and then to my office again a while, collecting observations out of Dr Powres book of Microscopes, and so home to bed.'Samuel Pepys Henry PowerExperimental philosophy...containing new experimen...Print: Book
1850-1899'Miss Blackwell's "Spiritism" horrible, like waking nightmare, read before going to bed.'John Ruskin Allan Kardec [pseud.]Experimental SpritismPrint: Book
1600-1699'After dinner by water, the day being mighty pleasant and the tide serving finely - I up (reading in Boyles book of Colours) as high as Barne Elmes'Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there to write down my Journall, and so to supper and to read and so to bed - mightily pleased with my reading Boyles book of Colours today; only, troub...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where I left [28 April?], finding many fine things worthy...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'Being weary and almost blind with writing and reading so much today, I took boat at the Old Swan, and there up the River all alone, as high as Puttny almost; and then ba...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have done little since I wrote last but revised Leslie's conics, and read a part of Laplace's 'exposition du systeme du monde' not the mecanique celeste for I alas, am...Thomas Carlyle Simon-Pierre LaplaceExposition du systeme du mondePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned aside into Leslie's conics - 'Thomas Carlyle Simon-Pierre LaplaceExposition du systeme du mondePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to express preference for Mrs Klopstock's letters over those...Dorothy Wordsworth Don Pedro CevallosExposition of the Arts and Machinations which led ...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 August 1841: 'I have seen & read [italics]the book[end italics] [...] It is written by an enthusiast in the cause of geniu...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Hengist HorneExposition of the False Medium and Barriers Exclud...Print: Book


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