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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' I wish I had seen S.T. [Sybil Thorndike] in "Gruach" — I read it and thought it so fine. And I like all your talk about plays like Mr Pepys.'Gertrude Bell Gordon BottomleyGruach and Britain's Daughter: Two PlaysPrint: playscript
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottlieb FichteGrundiss des Eigenthumlichen der WissenschaftslehrPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottlieb FichteGrundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre als HanPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantGrundlegung zur Metaphysik der SittenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heinrich SteffensGrundzuge der philosophischen NaturwissenschaftPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heinrich SteffensGrundzuge der philosophischen NaturwissenschaftPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading Berkeley's paper, no. 55, in the "Guardian". There is this curious inconsistency in it, that setting out with deprecating any intention to turn argum...John Ruskin George [?] BerkeleyGuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember out of Italy, among several other papers, the 81st, of...John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Note the definition of a critic in "Guardian" No.103: "A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wanting that to what is present."' John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I must interrupt myself to note the 86th paper in the "Guardian" useful to my chapter on penetrative imagination.'John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Note the passage in the 93rd paper of "Guardian" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies, to be expressed by imitation of this order in our l...John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most novels & served to amuse me very well to-day. If it h...John Buckley Castieau Oliver Wendell HolmesGuardian AngelPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here. It promises well but a weekly London paper crowded w...William Wordsworth Guardian, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Guardian, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland C...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'.Claire Clairmont unknownGuerin de MontglavePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'In Chaucer I for ever find the ribible — but nothing else & no explanation of that. now tho I have use...Robert Southey Gines Perez de HitaGuerras Civiles de GranadaPrint: Book
1900-1945'A soldier saw me reading the Abyssinian book, and asked me if the Transvaal Scottish were mentioned, as he had served with them.'Vere Hodgson William Edward David AllenGuerrilla War in AbyssiniaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have got the "Guesses at Truth", & thank you for them darling'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Julius HareGuesses at TruthPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:

'Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation [in year following the death...		Charlotte Brontë Julius Hare and Augustus HareGuesses at TruthPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read a volume which was called "The Guide to Domestic Happiness", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the case of a working man - all its reasonings, counsels...Thomas Carter William GilesGuide to Domestic Happiness, ThePrint: Book


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