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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'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked in the Margin: that he should Attain to Perfection by...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander Pope'Third pastoral'Print: Book
1700-1799'I have heard that all the kept Mistresses read Pope's Eloisa with singular delight - 'tis a great Testimony to its Ingenuity; they are commonly very ignorant Women, & ca...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeEloisa to Abelard Print: Book
1700-1799'As soon as I had learned to read, my great delight was that of learning epitaphs and monumental inscriptions. A story of melancholy import never failed to arrest my atte...Mary Darby Alexander PopeLines to the Memory of an Unfortunate LadyPrint: Book
1700-1799From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay': 'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest daughter Esther, Fanny [Burney] sat by and listened, ...Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther)Alexander Pope'works'Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751: 'Our present after-supper author is Mr Pope, in Mr Warburton's edition. Is it because one's strongest partialitie...Catherine Talbot and familyAlexander PopeThe Works of Alexander Pope, Esq.Print: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 20 March 1752:] 'As to Mr Pope, though I had some acquaintance with him, and admired him as a poet, yet I must own I never had an...Thomas Edwards Alexander Pope'Essays'Print: Book
1700-1799Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755: 'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As far as I have seen, and I read at Ember the last volum...Thomas Edwards Alexander PopeEssay on ManPrint: 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 Alexander Pope[Lines of verse concerning bees]
1900-1945'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who st...Chaim Lewis Alexander Pushkin Print: Book
1900-1945'The tent flaps were laced over, the rain had ceased, the guns were silent and Jimmy Harding lay motionless. I ate slowly and dully, staring at my candle. I took my Palgr...Edwin Stephen Campion Vaughan Alexander Smith"Barbara"Print: Book
1700-1799'[Letter to Boswell] Dr. Webster's informations were much less exact and much less determinate than I expected: they are, indeed, much less positive than, if he can trus...Samuel Johnson Alexander Webster[census of Scotland]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore Alexander WerthBefore MunichPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading The Last Days of Paris by Alexander Werth, a journalist who kept a diary of those awful weeks.'Vere Hodgson Alexander WerthThe Last Days of Paris: A Journalist's DiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Alexander WoolcotWhile Rome BurnsPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Alexander WoolcottLong, Long AgoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Re-read "Laws of Operation".'George Eliot [pseud] Alexander (perhaps) Ellis (perhaps)[perhaps] On the Laws of Operation, and the System...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'You liked "St Thomas's Eve" which gave great promise - a promise which "The Heir Of Cyprus" redeems. The tory is far more artistically, & is indeed admirably managed, wh...Mary Shelley Alexander Andrew KnoxHeir of Cyprus, TheUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alexander Charles Louis D'ArblayThe Vanity of All Earthly GreatnessPrint: Book
1800-1849'If you want an agreeable book, read 'Lives of the Lindsays'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alexander Crawford, Lord LindsayLives of the Lindsays; Or, A memoir of the houses ...Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 March 1850:

'The books came yesterday evening just as I was wishing for them very much [...] I took up ...		Charlotte Brontë Alexander John ScottSuggestions on Female EducationPrint: Book


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