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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'Do you object to my alluding to your delightful little account of your passage over the Splugen in /34 & mentioning your name?' [letter to Abraham Hayward. Mary is pr...Mary Shelley Abraham Hayward[account of Euroipean travels]Print: Book
1800-1849'I like your verses very much, they are marked by elegance, simplicity & feeling - they bear the stamp of reality being unaffected, & easy - Thank you for them very much'...Mary Shelley Abraham HaywardVerses of Other DaysPrint: Book
1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight. Francis E. Pollard Abraham Lincoln[unidentified letters]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Abraham ParsonsTravels in Asia and AfricaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I thank you for your Letter & Mr Scott's Treatise. True! I agree with him in his principal Idea, though even there I do not like the Expression that Regeneration must pr...George Crabbe Abraham ScottCalvinistic Doctrines RefutedPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... when he (and all other readers) had failed to decipher the shorthand of [John] Flamsteed's most informed correspondent, Abraham Sharp, [Francis] Baily turned to Cha...Charles Babbage Abraham Sharpshorthand writingsManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'Going down I spent reading of the "Five Sermons of Five Several Styles"; worth comparing one with another, but I do think when all is done, that contrary to the design o...Samuel Pepys Abraham WrightFive sermons in five several stylesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read"Vathek" at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the imm...Joseph Conrad Abu Zaid (and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt)The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare...Print: Book
1900-1945'The book Grey and Scarlet is wonderful. Letters of Army Nurses from all over the world. Thousands of people can rise to the greatest heights of heroism.'Vere Hodgson Ada HarrisonGrey and Scarlet: Letters from the War Areas by Ar...Print: Book
1800-1849Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cross and the marginal comment then arguing a related ...John Drummond Erskine Adam DicksonAn essay on the causes of the present high price o...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 21 April 1802: I went to bed after dinner, could not sleep, went to bed again. Read Ferguson's life and a poem or two --...Dorothy Wordsworth Adam FergusonLife of FergusonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Ferguson on Civil Society: I do not says Johnson perceive...Samuel Johnson Adam FergusonEssay on the History of Civil SocietyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Ferguson on Civil Society: I do not says Johnson perceive...William Rose Adam FergusonEssay on the History of Civil SocietyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Polishness which I took from Mickiewicz and Slowacki. My father read "Pan Tadeusz" aloud to me and made me read it aloud. Not just once or twice. I used to prefer "K...Joseph Conrad Adam MickiewiczPan TadeuszPrint: Book
1850-1899'Polishness which I took from Mickiewicz and Slowacki. My father read "Pan Tadeusz" aloud to me and made me read it aloud. Not just once or twice. I used to prefer "K...Joseph Conrad Adam MickiewiczKonrad WallenrodPrint: Book
1850-1899'Polishness which I took from Mickiewicz and Slowacki. My father read "Pan Tadeusz" aloud to me and made me read it aloud. Not just once or twice. I used to prefer "K...Joseph Conrad Adam MickiewiczGrazynaPrint: Book
1600-1699'I went to the Temple and there spent my time in a bookseller's shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscovia, &c., where was very good reading.'Samuel Pepys Adam OleariusThe voyages and travels of the ambassadors from th...Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Adam OleariusTravels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederic, Duke ...Print: Book
1850-1899'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson... "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive...John Johnson Adam SmithThe Wealth of NationsPrint: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place Adam SmithWealth of NationsPrint: Book


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