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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'S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'O! "Esmond"! That book marks its own year in one's life. I never did any justice to Thackeray before; and I cannot now read "Vanity Fair". But the pub...Harriet Martineau William Makepeace ThackerayHeny EsmondPrint: Book
1800-1849?As usual all the good I saw in my work, before it was printed, is now vanished from my sight and I remember only its faults. All the authors of both sexes, and artists t...Amelia Opie Amelia Opieher own works as they are publishedPrint: Book
1600-1699'...and so took boat again and got to London before them. All the way, coming and going, reading in "The Wallflower" with great pleasure.'Samuel Pepys Thomas BaylyHerba Parietis or The wall-flower, as it grew out ...Print: Book
1700-1799'When first we found the tree, we of course gathered the branches, and were surprised to find our hands instantly covered with legions of these small animals, who stung m...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbarium AboinensePrint: Book
1700-1799'The chief inconvenience in handling the roots came from the infinite number; myriads would come in an instant out of many holes, and running over the hand tickle so as t...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbarium AboinensePrint: Book
1700-1799'The growth of the Rhizophora also pleased me much, although I had before a very good idea of it from Rumphius, who has a very good figure of the tree in his Herb. Amboin...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbarium AmboinensisPrint: Book
1700-1799'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and Rumphius says of his Bancudus angustifolia, which is...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbarium AmboinensisPrint: Book
1700-1799'Authors tell strange stories about the immense size to which this fruit grows in some countries which are favourable to it. Rumphius says that they are sometimes so lar...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbrium AboinensisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and ...Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich RichterHerbst-blumine oder gesammelte Wekchen aus Zeitsch...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - he reads the Hercules of Sophocles aloud to me'.Percy Bysshe Shelley SophoclesHerculesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and should of all things wish to edit either the Mad He...Oscar Wilde EuripidesHercules FurensPrint: BookUnknown
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read...George Gissing Theodule-Armand RibotHérédité: étude psychologique Print: Book
1850-18998 February 1875: 'We had an agreeable journey to Folkestone where we took ship [for china-collecting expedition in Europe] [...] I was driven below by the intense cold...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles KingsleyHerewardPrint: Book
1900-1945I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Hereward the WakePrint: Book
1900-1945'I read Celery through from cover to cover last night in bed. It really is good.'Harold Nicolson Vita Sackville-WestHeritagePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHermann and DorotheaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHermann and DorotheaPrint: Book
1700-1799'On the next day (Tuesday 31st) I went to Canterbury in the coach & on the same evening in the diligence to Dover where I amused myself with reading "Herman of Unna" (a t...John Marsh C B E NaubertHermann of UnnaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Hermann und Dorothea'Sarah Good Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHermann und DorotheaPrint: Book


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