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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'I always hated Gay's Fables, and for long could not abide a red book.'Harriet Martineau John GayGay's FablesPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): '... I read in the Gazette of an Irish lady of 37 who has run away with a young Englishman of...George Gordon Lord Byron GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 22 June 1815: 'All the details that one hears of the victory of the 18th [June, at Waterloo] show that it was one of the most sanguinary battles that...Mary Berry GazettePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'"Gazette" with details of victory over Dupont, +c'William Windham [n/a]GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Day of "Gazette" arriving, with news of Wellesley's victory [Battle of Talavera] of 28th July.'William Windham [n/a]GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Mr Johnson believes nothing - the Hurricane which has torn Barbadoes to pieces, & is related so pathetically in the Gazette - "not true Madam depend on't - People so del...Hester Lynch Thrale GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Wednesday, 14 November 1827: 'Read the Gazette of the great battle of Navarrino in which we have thumped the Turks very well.'Walter Scott GazettePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Cavendish (1798): 'The dinner here consisted of Mr. Hare sitting all the evening with his taper legs crossed like a tay...Mr Hare Gazette ExtraordinaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849De Quincey to Southey, 31 May 1811: 'We received the Gazette last night, and were a little disappointed by it,: Wordsworth indeed was greatly mortified ... 'William Wordsworth Gazette, ThePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Esther Radford: [Bevan picks up parcel in Pond-street and takes it to Radford]... he gave them into my possession, and I put them...Esther Radford Gazetteer and Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Wrote, and read "Persian Gulf Gazetteer", a unique and monumental compilation, and a political history of the Middle East beyond compare.'Ronald Storrs John Gordon LorimerGazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Ar...Print: Book
1700-1799'The weather was fine but so dirty I could not go out. I read the "Gazettes" this evening'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [n/a]GazettesPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ludwig Heinrich Christoph HoltyGedichtePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge August Wilhelm SchlegelGedichtePrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gottfried August BurgerGedichtePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Von MatthissonGedichtePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Von MatthissonGedichtePrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed so...

George Burrow Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGefundenUnknown
1800-1849'read "P. Proteus" in the even'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Christopher WielandGeheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Prot...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus'Mary Shelley Christoph Martin WielandGeheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Prot...Print: Book


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