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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
 
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 7 November 1880: ' ... please tell Charles [Norton] I am to write to him in a day or two to thank him for his own beautiful volume which I ha...Henry James Charles Eliot NortonHistorical Studies of Church Building in the Middl...Print: Book
1800-1849'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working steadily at the banking-house, partaking sparingly of ...George Grote historical textsPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: amo...John Stuart Mill John MillarHistorical View of the English Government Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read Millar on the English government &c-'Thomas Carlyle John MillarHistorical View of the English Government, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849'Without reluctance, I push aside the massy quarto of Millar on the English government, to perform ther more pelasing duty of writing a few lines to you, by the conveyanc...Thomas Carlyle John MillarHistorical View of the English Government, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaining "Letters" of Mr. Gray together with M. Sismondi's...Thomas Carter J.-C.-L. Simonde de SismondiHistorical View of the Literature of the South of ...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 2 June 1808: 'I began reading aloud Mr. Fox's historical work, in the beautiful large-paper copy which Robert Ferguson has given me.'Mary Berry Charles James FoxHistorical WorkPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 3 June 1808: 'I continued reading Fox's work. It is very well to read it once out; but it suggests so much thought, and so many new views of things,...Mary Berry Charles James FoxHistorical WorkPrint: Book
1800-1849'begin Macchiavelli's history.'Mary Shelley Niccolo MacchiavelliHistorie FiorentinePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli'Mary Shelley Niccolo MacchiavelliHistorie FiorentinePrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton William CamdenHistorie of the Life and Reigne of ElizabethPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill William RobertsonHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Cer...John Stuart Mill HerodotusHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'Percy Bysshe Shelley HerodotusHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus'Percy Bysshe Shelley HerodotusHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley HerodotusHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Herodotus - Gillies & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'Percy Bysshe Shelley HerodotusHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Herodotus with S.'Mary and Percy Shelley HerodotusHistoriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and terseness of expression, he was too compact, too muc...Samuel Johnson TacitusHistoriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and terseness of expression, he was too compact, too muc...James Boswell TacitusHistoriesPrint: Book


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