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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 have translated a portion of Schiller's History of the thirty years war (it is all about Gustavus and the fellow-soldados of Dugald Dalgetty your dearly-beloved friend...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich SchillerGeschichte des dreissigj?hrigen KriegsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Scherr's Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'.George Eliot [pseud] Johannes ScherrGeschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
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1800-1849		Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Se...Henry Cooke Gesta RomanorumPrint: Book
1900-1945'After wandering about the place and buying a second-hand copy of the "Gesta Romanorum" (of which more anon) I took my courage in both hands and knocked up the Master o...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]Gesta RomanorumPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've been frightfully lazy today: it's been too hot to do anything. Pater was a gem: he brought my breakfast up about 9.30 and I didn't get up until eleven. I read...Dora Willatt Ian HayGetting TogetherPrint: Book
1900-1945'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus".'Elizabeth Bowen Richard MiddletonGhost Ship, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when the Booksellers begged him a Place in the Edition th...Hester Lynch Thrale Charles ChurchillGhost, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when the Booksellers begged him a Place in the Edition th...Samuel Johnson Charles ChurchillGhost, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Henrik IbsenGhostsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the opportunity to read your charming preface which is really...Henry James Henrik IbsenGhostsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent most of the morning in bed reading Ibsen's "Ghosts", which is a masterpiece, I think.'Hilary Spalding Henrik IbsenGhostsPrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he be...Francis Pollard George Gordon, Lord ByronGiaour, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronGiaour, The: a fragment of a Turkish talePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read in the "Gibraltar Chronicle" that Adml. Villeneuve was assassinated at Rennes on the 23rd of April, what a horrid tyrant must Bonaparte be if he had anything to d...Thomas Fremantle [n/a]Gibraltar ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly, as many parsons would do well to realise; sermons,...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown]Gifford lecturesPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton gift booksPrint: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton Alain Rene Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1700-1799Went again to the shrubbery-brought our books namely Gil Blas and Madame de Sevigne with us.Lady Eleanor Butler A.R. LesageGil BlasPrint: Book
1800-1849On Frances Burney d'Arblay's married life in France: 'With affection and friendship, the pleaseures of attending the theater and reading works of French literature such a...D'Arblay familyAlain Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have likewise read "Gil Blas", with unbounded admiration of the abilities of Le Sage.'Thomas Babington Macaulay Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book


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