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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
 
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for enclosing to me that sweet melancholy sonnet, which as...Catherine Talbot ?Elizabeth ?CartersonnetPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for enclosing to me that sweet melancholy sonnet, which as...Mrs Secker ?Elizabeth ?CartersonnetPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary read) and Bishop Hall.'Mary Hutchinson ?James ThomsonunknownUnknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:] 'I have read Zaide, which I do not admire, as it is calculated to undo all the good impressions that may have b...Catherine Talbot ?Jean ?de la ChapelleZaidePrint: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson notes recollection of friend of Rupert Brooke, of Brooke in a canoe c.1910-11: "'he would keep the paddle going with his left hand, and with the other make ...Rupert Brooke ?John ?Webster Print: Book
1800-1849In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life": 'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morrow", in which the procrastinator gives the history o...Elizabeth Missing Sewell ?Maria ?Edgeworth'To-morrow'Print: Book
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook ?Mary ?Bayly?The Life and Letters of Mrs SewellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook ?Moses ?Harvey?Where Are We and Whither Tending?Print: Book
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook ?Robert ?Bridges?PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I spent most of yesterday in the Advocates' Library and got about half way through the catalogue.'Robert Louis Stevenson ?Robert ?Wodrow[MSS in the Advocates' Library]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interesting [...] I send you a book; pray read it -- "Lady C...Lady Caroline Lamb ?Thomas ?HolcroftLife [?of Thomas Holcroft]Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:] 'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it with some exception; many, indeed most of them, are ...Elizabeth Carter ?Thomas SherlockSermonsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Samuel V. Bracher ?Thomas Watson[Lines of verse concerning bees]
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 9 January 1782:] 'Alas, my dear friend, it is not a reflection on the writings or conversation of a licentious profligate infidel...Elizabeth Vesey ?Thomas Francois ?Raynal Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:] 'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with pleasure, and though the objection you made is just, it ...Catherine Talbot ?Thomas Simon ?Gueullette?Peruvian Tales (vol 3)Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1814: 'I read "Swift's Life" in the new edition of his works by Walter Scott. It does not appear to me that there is much that is new.'Mary Berry ?Walter ?ScottLife of Jonathan SwiftPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read John Woolman.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook ?William Teignmouth ?Shore?John Woolman: His Life and Our Times: Being a Stu...Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'With nothing else to do, the library queue has grown beyond all bounds. It took me an hour yesterday to get "The Silk Stocking Murders" by A. Berkeley - quite a good det...Thomas Kitching A BerkeleyThe Silk Stocking MurdersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read...A Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding A SeylerCraft of ComedyPrint: Book


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