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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'To... ...' 'There are who strangely love to roam/And find in wildest haunts their home/...' ['Home' ll. 13-22]Margaret Maingay [probably] Josiah ConderHomePrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Oh There are moments in life, keen,blissful, never to be forgotten!!!'Carey/Maingay groupSusan FerrierMarriage. A Novel in Three VolumesPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Dr Marwick advertises again.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'Read Home's "tragedy of Douglas", I was much pleased with it. I have seen it remarked, I believe in the "Memoirs of Living Authors", that Home [...] has never been able ...Joseph Hunter John HomeDouglas: A TragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Returned Pratt's "Gleanings in England" to the SS Library having only read a few of the letters which did not please me;'Joseph Hunter Samuel Jackson PrattGleanings in EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Foote's "Farce of the Minor"; I do not admire it near as much as I do the Mayor of Garratt.'Joseph Hunter Samuel FooteThe Minor, A ComedyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think Mrs Montague [sic] has fully vindicated Shakespeare from the objections of Voltaire [...] Her three dialogues of the dead at the end of her essay, are I think ve...Joseph Hunter Elizabeth Robinson MontaguAn Essay on the Writings and Genius of ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in the vol of plays lent me by my father, the farce of "Catherine and Petruchio"; abridged from Shakespeare's play of "Taming of the Shrew".'Joseph Hunter David GarrickCatharine and Petruchio. A Comedy Altered from Sha...Print: Book
1800-1849'Brought...a translation of the Greek, Latin, French and Italian quotations in the "Pursuits of Literature" which I had rather felt the want of in pursuing the work... I ...Joseph Hunter Thomas MathiasA Translation of the Passages from Greek, Latin, F...Print: Book
1800-1849'It being the Saturday previous to the annual meeting at the SS Library I was oblig[e]d to return, rather unwillingly, the "Life of Macklin" without having finished the v...Joseph Hunter James Thomas KirkmanMemoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin EsqPrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Iris" contains an advertisement of a book being published intitled "A Poetical Review of Miss Hannah More's Strictures of Female Education"...'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'She [Mrs Montagu] is characterised in this manner in the first part of the "Pursuits of Literature"; comparing the commentators upon Shakespeare [transcribes note on Mon...Joseph Hunter Thomas James MathiasThe Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the first 3 parts of the "Pursuits of Literature", of these the first I admire the most. There are people who will not allow that the author has either wit or learn...Joseph Hunter Thomas James MathiasThe Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the last play in the Series on the passions. The subject of it is Hatred. It is a tragedy & the title is De Montfort. There is one rather curious mistake in this pl...Joseph Hunter Joanna BaillieA Series of Plays In Which It is Attempted to DeliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Dryden's comedy of the Spanish Fryar, was not much pleased with it.'Joseph Hunter John DrydenThe Spanish FryarPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is an advertisement prefixed to this number of the "Copper Plate Magazine", in which is given a list of the plates that have already been published in it amongst w...Joseph Hunter John WalkerCopper-Plate MagazinePrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Finished the last vol of Beckmann's "History of Inventions"; I do not know the book that contains a greater variety of information mixed with so much amusement, than the...Joseph Hunter Johann BeckmannA History of Inventions and DiscoveriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'From paper in "Monthly Review" I got on Mathematical Subjects and resumed Consideration of Negative Signs, retracing former reasonings [...] found much enjoyment in it.'William Windham [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read with Cecilia a good deal of "marmion" the new poem of Sir Walter Scott, which I like.'William Windham Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have read, since I have been here, about 30 pages in the Bipont edition of "Thucydides", the part, the latter part of the second book, containing the funeral oration by ...William Windham Thucydides[Two orations]Print: Unknown


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