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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'Have you ever seen Bowles’s poems & more particularly his sonnets? tho he be an Oxford man,[MS torn] name is little kno...Robert Southey William Lisle BowlesFourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive. Written...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer'Mary Shelley Edmund SpenserFowre HymnesPrint: Book
1900-1945'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs....Edna Bold and her cousin DorothyJohn FoxeFoxe's Book of MartyrsPrint: Book
1800-1849I have read Foxes book of Martyrs & finished it todayJohn Clare John FoxeFoxes Book of MartyrsPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Fragment on meadowes'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Thomas BrowneFragment on meadowesPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits rising with forks in their hands[...]') and Amiel ('...Edward Morgan Forster Henri-Frederic AmielFragments d'un Journal IntimePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr E. brought "Fragments in the Manner of Sterne" 1797 from the library. The "Monthly Review" says it is the best imitation of Sterne that has ever appeared. I finished ...Joseph Hunter Anon Fragments in the Manner of SternePrint: Book
1700-1799'Wrote out of "Fragments" the piece upon war.'Joseph Hunter Anon Fragments in the Manner of SternePrint: Book
1850-1899'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossian [end italics], was at its height. Johnson had all...Samuel Johnson James MacphersonFragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highl...Print: Book
1850-1899'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossian [end italics], was at its height. Johson had all ...Hugh Blair James MacphersonFragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highl...Print: Book
1800-1849'happiness is a very common plant...' 'e. smith's fragments' 'greenock'Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Miss Elizabeth SmithFragments of prose and verse: by a young ladyUnknown
1800-1849'the christain life may be compared...' 'e. smith's fragments'. followed by extract ascribed to 'hannah more' 'those who are rendered unhappy by frivolous troubles seek ...Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Miss Elizabeth SmithFragments of prose and verse: by a young ladyUnknown
1800-1849'the cause of all sin...' 'e.smith's fragments'. signed 'e.d.'Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Miss Elizabeth SmithFragments of prose and verse: by a young ladyUnknown
1800-1849Wednesday, 13 April 1831: 'My nap [same afternoon] was a very short one and was agreeably replaced by Basil Hall's Fragments of Voyages. Every thing about the i[n]side...Walter Scott Captain Basil HallFragments of Voyages and TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Anthony TrollopeFramley ParsonagePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I wish Mr Trollope would go on writing Framley Parsonage for ever. I don't see any reason why it should ever come to an end, and every one I know is always dreading the ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Anthony TrollopeFramley ParsonagePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be...Thomas Carlyle Lady Sidney Owenson MorganFrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Lady Morgans "France".'Percy Bysshe Shelley Lady MorganFrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".'Percy Bysshe Shelley Lady MorganFrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "France"'Mary Shelley Lady MorganFrancePrint: Book


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