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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'It was filled with a high but vague nonconformity, and tried to combine the ideals of revivalist Christianity and great literature. There were articles on 'aspects' of R...Edwin Muir Great ThoughtsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I've just received "The Great Trade Route" this morning, and there's a gentleman on the cover who tells me that it is "bland, ironic humurous [sic] discursive, always am...Esther Julia Ford Ford Madox FordGreat Trade Route, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale Arthur MurphyGrecian Daughter, the: A tragedyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been r...George Eliot [pseud] Christopher WordsworthGreecePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conceit original; but it is not - There is an old Greek E...Hester Lynch Thrale Greek AnthologyPrint: Book
1800-1849Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 24 June 1822: 'Mr. McSwiney dined with us yesterday and was shown your Greek epitaph, in the first place he s...Daniel McSwiney Elizabeth BarrettGreek epitaphManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, Monday 28 December 1829, thanking him for his epitaph on a cat, and following critical appraisal of it: 'You told me never to re...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydGreek epitaph 'On the death of a favourite Tom Cat...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Monday 2 May 1932: 'Well it is five minutes to ten: but where am I, writing with pen & ink? Not in my studio. In the gorge, or valley, at Delphi, under an olive tree, sit...Leonard Woolf unknownGreek grammarPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'A gentleman, by no means deficient in literature, having discovered less acquaintance with one of t...Samuel Johnson ClenardusGreek GrammarPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'A gentleman, by no means deficient in literature, having discovered less acquaintance with one of t...Bennet Langton ClenardusGreek GrammarPrint: Book
1850-1899'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help W...Oscar Wilde Lidell and ScottGreek LexiconPrint: Book
1850-1899" He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and these he had so magnificently bound in full morocco t...Edmund Gosse Greek New TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did not dine; but he read in the Greek New Testament, and...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Greek New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Greek Romances'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Greek RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Greek RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finish Greek Romances'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Greek RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers rea...younger Moulton-Barrett brothers Greek text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 9 July 1827: 'At eleven [am] went by appointment with Colin Mackenzie to the New Edinr. Academy. In the fifth class, Mr. Mitchell's, we heard Greek of which I...Pupils in fifth class at New Edinburgh Academy Greek textsPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, Will...Edward Morgan Forster J. T. SheppardGreek TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday, 19 June 1937, during holiday to Scotland and Border country: 'I have been reading translations of Greek verse, and thinking idly.'Virginia Woolf unknownGreek versePrint: Book


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