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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'read Hermann d'Unna'Mary Godwin Christiane Benedicte Eugenie NaubertHermann von Unna, eine Geschicte aus den Zeiten de...Print: Book
1800-1849'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go up to Diodati - Read Rienzi'.Mary Godwin Christiane Benedicte Eugenie NaubertHermann von Unna, eine Geschicte aus den Zeiten de...Print: Book
1850-1899'Dr John Campbell, the celebrated political and biographical writer, being mentioned, Johnson said, "Campbell is a man of much knowledge, and has a good share of imaginat...Samuel Johnson John CampbellHermippus Redivivus: Or, the Sage's Triumph Over O...Print: Book
1700-1799'I was last night at the Club. Dr. Percy has written a long ballad in many [italics] fits [end italics]; it is pretty enough. He has printed, and will soon publish it.'Samuel Johnson Thomas PercyHermit of Warkworth, ThePrint: Unknown
'On Monday, May 3, I dined with him at Mr. Dilly's; I pressed him this day for his opinion on the passage in Parnell, concerning which I had in vain questioned him in sev...Samuel Johnson Thomas ParnellHermit, ThePrint: Book
'On Monday, May 3, I dined with him at Mr. Dilly's; I pressed him this day for his opinion on the passage in Parnell, concerning which I had in vain questioned him in sev...James Boswell Thomas ParnellHermit, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Such was his sensibility, and so much was he affected by pathetick poetry, that, when he was reading Dr. Beattie's "Hermit" in my presence, it brought tears into his eye...Samuel Johnson James BeattieHermit, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read Hermsprong'Mary Godwin Robert BageHermsprong: Or Man as he is not. A novel. By the A...Print: Book
1900-1945'Next to tell you that "H.[Hernando] de Soto" is most exquisitely excellent: your very mark and spirit upon a subject that only you can do justice to-with your wonderful...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamHernando de Soto: together with an account of one ...Print: Book
1850-1899" But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to myself-respect. I had long coveted in the...Edmund Gosse Christopher MarloweHero and LeanderPrint: Book
1850-1899" When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my stepmother that she might be a partner in my joys. It i...Edmund Gosse Christopher MarloweHero and LeanderPrint: Book
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1800-1849		Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Se...Henry Cooke Hero and LeanderPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday March. 15th. [...] Begin the Hero & Leander of Schiller.' [reading from this text also recorded in journal entry for 18 March 1821, with 'Finish the Hero u...Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerHero und LeanderPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses expansive annotations made in ink by Edward Gibbon in copy of Herodotus, including corrections as well as lively critical commentary.Edward Gibbon Herodotus Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IXPrint: Book
1850-1899'Labour Party pioneer F.W. Jowett..., reading Heroes and Hero-Worship as a young millworker, was attracted by its vision of a new society but repelled by its authoritaria...F.W. Jowett Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero WorshipPrint: Book
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero WorshipPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered "the exciting experience o...Elizabeth Bryson Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero-worshipPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero-WorshipPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Here I am, sitting on my bed, half-reading Carlyle, little soaking through to my dull mind, when I become aware that a boxing match is being arranged … I am not alto...Ivor Bertie Gurney Thomas CarlyleHeroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in HistoryPrint: Book


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