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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'Recieved another parcel from Hessey [...] a present of "Aytons Essays" a young writer of great promise which was killed in the bud these essays are excelent and contain ...John Clare Richard AytonEssays and Sketches of CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849'"A hive of bees natives of New South Wales [...] The bees are very small and have no sting but their honey is peculiarly fine" "Stamford Mercury"'John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'lent Miss Fanny Knowlton Bloomfields "Hazlewood Hall & Remains" & Aytons "Essays" - Got a look at Gilleads of Spaldings "Alworth Abbey" & I neve[r] saw such a heap of un...John Clare G GilleadeAllworth Abbey; or Christianity TriumphantPrint: Book
1800-1849'a newspaper lye of the first order - "Mr Gale of Holt in the parish of Bradford Witts has at present a Pear of the jagonel kind in his possession which was taken [...] 4...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Recieved the 28 No of the "Everyday book" in which is inserted a poem of mine'John Clare William HoneThe Every-Day BookPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'More wonders from the "Mercury" "A clergyman of the established church name Benson now attracts larger congregations [...] then the celebrated Mr Irving [.] 211 stage co...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'"The story of Eyes and No Eyes in Evenings at Home is intended only to illustrate the difference between inattention and vigilance, but the exercise in narration is a su...John Ruskin John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1800-1849'I must include. under the general title of these [fairy legends], the stories in "Evenings at Home" of the Transmigrations of Indur, the Discontented Squirrel, the Trave...John Ruskin John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1800-1849[footnote includes a quote from Evenings and the following:] 'Nevertheless, the germs of all modern conceit and error respecting manufacture and industry ads rivalsto Art...John Ruskin John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday morning I received the enclosed note from that most conceited and not over-well-bred Mons. de Lamartine. I desired my friend Madame Belloc to use her own disc...Maria Edgeworth Alphonse-Marie-Louis Prat de LamartineHistoire des GirondinsPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the old solitary years, a long time ago, by the shores of Canadian rapids, on the edge of West Indian swamps, his Virgil had been an inestimable solace to him...The b...Philip Gosse Virgil[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'One evening my father took down his Virgil from an upper shelf...And then, in the twilight, as he shut the volume at last, oblivious of my presence, he began to murmur a...Philip Gosse VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1800-1849'The acute and learned Paley sums up in the following beautiful and energetic language the results of the minute and elegant investigations persued in his invaluable volu...William Buckland William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The logic of this book [Paley's Evidences] and as I may add of his Natural Theology gave me as much delight as did Euclid.' [Darwin's Autobiography]Charles Darwin William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condes...Anne Isabella Milbanke William Wordsworth Print: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condes...Anne Isabella Milbanke and 'the family-solicitor's daughter' Alfieri Print: Book
1800-1849James Harvey 'Blind Jim" 'had, from hearing, mastered most of the content of these two important papers [Times and Weekly Dispatch], and then made some capital out of hav...James Harvey [n/a]The Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849James Harvey 'Blind Jim" 'had, from hearing, mastered most of the content of these two important papers [Times and Weekly Dispatch], and then made some capital out of hav...James Harvey [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849[Whewell read Babbage, and was concerned that it had been his own Bridgewater which had stimulated Babbage to write one]William Whewell Charles BabbageNinth Bridgewater TreatisePrint: Book
1800-1849Letter from Whewell to Rose, dated 24/6/1818, discusses Butler's argument.William Whewell Joseph ButlerAnalogy of Natural and Revealed eligion to the ConPrint: Book


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