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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
 
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Gustave Flaubert Print: Book
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Anton Chekhov Print: Book
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Joseph Conrad Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Paul Verlaine Print: Book
1850-1899'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] profoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous conclusions to which it pointed. "Mamma and I", he ...William Gladstone Thucydides Print: Book
1800-1849'Begin Julius Florus and finish the little vol of Cicero.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Marcus Tullius Cicero Print: Book
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Cer...John Stuart Mill Lucian Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of ...Harriet Martineau Michel de Montaigne Print: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her grea...Mary Augusta ward Horace Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horace were our main reading then'.Pupils at Mr Perry's schoolCicero  Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horace were our main reading then'.Pupils at Mr Perry's schoolVirgil  Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horace were our main reading then'.Pupils at Mr Perry's schoolHorace  Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 December 1837: 'Read some of Hall in afternoon, till time to dress for ball.'Harriet Martineau Hall Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Young as he [Allan Cunningham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his juvenile pieces. Of an elder brother of his, Thomas ...James Hogg Thomas Mouncey Print: Unknown
1900-1945'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'Mary Augusta Ward George Tyrrell Print: Book
1900-1945'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'Mary Augusta Ward Henri Bergson Print: Book
1900-1945'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'.Mary Augusta Ward Wlliam James Print: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condes...Anne Isabella Milbanke William Wordsworth Print: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condes...Anne Isabella Milbanke and 'the family-solicitor's daughter' Alfieri Print: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condes...Anne Isabella Milbanke Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book


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