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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'Sister Edith remains and kindly helped me wind pink wool at night Read "what I found out" so long that I could not read any more!! so May hunted up wool for me to knit.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Alice Muriel WilliamsonWhat I Found Out in the House of a German PrincePrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Went to Library[.] Finished "What I found out".'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Alice Muriel WilliamsonWhat I Found Out in the House of a German PrincePrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook Alice Muriel WilliamsonWhat I Found Out in the House of a German PrincePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, 'Your Life in 15 Century' Mrs J. R. Green.'Virginia Woolf Alice Stopford GreenTown Life in the Fifteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan'Mary Shelley Alicia LefanuStrathallanPrint: Book
1800-1849'read H. Monteagle.'Mary Shelley Alicia LefanuHelen MonteaglePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Feb. 8. [...] Read Helen Monteagle by A. Lefanu Stupid foolish Book.'Claire Clairmont Alicia LefanuHelen MonteaglePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & ...Sarah Harriet Burney Alicia Tindal PalmerAuthentic Memoirs of the Life of John SobieskiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alighieri DanteThe Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and ParadisePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alighieri DanteThe Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and ParadisePrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 20 August 1751: 'You tell me nothing of Mrs Cockburn. I have read but little yet, but she seems to have had a most remarkable cle...Elizabeth Carter Alison Cockburnprose writing/sPrint: Unknown
1900-1945[Marginalia]: there are two annotators, one using blue ink and one red. All ms notes take the form of additional genealogical information ie pp. 4-7 added dates and peopl...Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (eds)Domestic papers of the Rose familyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a rich garden overrun with rampant weeds. he was like...James Hogg Allan Cunningham[imitations of Ossian]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a rich garden overrun with rampant weeds. he was like...Mr Morrison Allan Cunningham'Mermaid of Galloway, The'Print: Book
1700-1799'Young as he [Allan Cunnigham] 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 M...James Hogg Allan Cunningham Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I like some things in the last Mag. very well but there is a grievious [sic] falling off in Cunningham's Cameronian The one is a drawing from life the other a compositio...James Hogg Allan Cunningham'Recollections of Mark Macrabin the Cameronian'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'When ever I saw your Cameronians I knew the hand but I do not like your last ideal picture half so well as the one you drew from life.'James Hogg Allan Cunningham'Recollections of Mark Macrabin, the Cameronian'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear friend Cunninghame the author of The Cameronians Surely ...James Hogg Allan Cunningham'Recollections No. I. - The Cameronians' [in Black...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize ...James Hogg Allan Cunningham'Cameronian Song'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagined Cunningham could have so little knowledge of art'John Ruskin Allan CunninghamLife of Sir David WilkiePrint: Book


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