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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
 
1800-1849Lord Durham to Harriet Martineau, 1 January 1834: 'I have read your excellent paper with great pleasure'.Lord Durham Harriet MartineauarticleUnknown
1800-1849Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'She found out our hours of family prayer and always came in most punctually with her f...Harriet Martineau BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'Dining out frequently [...] as soon as she came home at night, and had read at my requ...Harriet Martineau hymnsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and...Harriet Martineau NortonWork "in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines"Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and...Harriet Martineau PalfreySermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and...Harriet Martineau [Institutional reports]Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Journal, 14 January [?1835]: 'Read Carlyle's article on Burns. Was mightily cheered and lifted up by it.'Harriet Martineau Thomas CarlyleArticle on BurnsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'I read Gibbon. It makes me dread a single literary life, so selfish, so vain and blind, as ths great man grew to be!' Harriet Martineau Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon's correspondence. Selfish, vain creature! -- beyond almost all I ever read of.'Harriet Martineau Edward GibboncorrespondencePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 8 September 1837: 'Looked over frescoes from the Niebelungen Lied, in Penny Magazine.'Harriet Martineau Penny MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon. Selfish, vain, unhappy man! [goes on to discuss Gibbon]'Harriet Martineau Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read to Mrs ---- my last chapters of my first volume of "Retrospect." She says the book will do.'Harriet Martineau Harriet MartineauRetrospectUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 24 September 1837: 'Revelled in Lamb's letters. What an exquisite specimen is that man of our noble, wonderful, frail humanity!'Harriet Martineau Charles LambLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 24 September 1837: '[italics]Evening[end italics] Read [...] to my mother [...] my Sedgwick article, which she likes.'Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineauarticle on SedgwickUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal,1 October 1837: 'This morning I read the anti-slavery documents.'Harriet Martineau Anti-slavery documentsUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal,1 October 1837: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read some of Pascal's "Pensees". They show great knowledge of men [...] they are very gloomy...Harriet Martineau PascalPenseesPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 October 1837: 'I read Felkin's excellent report on the working-classes of Nottingham, showing clearly that there are resources enough for al...Harriet Martineau FelkinReport on working classes of NottinghamUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 October 1837: 'Read some of Channing's "Texas."'Harriet Martineau ChanningTexasUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 12 October 1837: 'Read some of Beaumont's "Marie." Sentimental and un-American'Harriet Martineau BeaumontMariePrint: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 19 October 1837: 'At night, read some of "Archy Moore." A terrible story, which stirred me deeply [...] It is truer than any slave-story I ev...Harriet Martineau Richard HildrethArchy MoorePrint: Book


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