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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
 
1800-1849Journals of Mary Shelley "M. & S. walk to the shore of the lake & read the description of the seige of Jerusalem in Tacitus"Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusHistories Book VPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song...Samuel Bamford anonHistories of Jack the Giant KillerPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS notes, incl. some copied from Lord Macaulay's own copy of Livy: "I copied these marginal notes, and lines, from Macaulay's Bipontine edition in the winter of 1910...George Otto Trevelyan Livy Historiorum libriPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... 'Dorothea Beale and mother historyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ...Dorothea Beale historyPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; th...Alfred Tennyson GibbonHistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Everything seems to have been designed to develop the serious fold in her nature. At ten, the poor infant was reading Smollett's History [...] She summed up her impressi...Anne Isabella Milbanke Tobias SmollettHistoryPrint: Book
1850-18992 July 1876, from Brussels: 'After I went to bed I read over that wonderful part of Macaulay's History, the death of Charles II, and was quite excited by it, when I dr...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory Print: Book
1850-189921 August 1886: 'It is a great effort to me to think of moving; my feeling of desolation makes it difficult for me to decide on any change, and yet I am always eager...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Thomas Babington MacauleyHistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landla...Francis Place Matthew HaleHistory and Analysis of the Common Laws of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I received your splendid work the other day; and have placed it in my little library, having only looked over the plates, and some references from these; and read the ge...James Hogg Robert SurteesHistory and Antiquities of the County Palatinate o...Print: Book
1700-1799'At some time between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied the epitaph of Sir George Vane at the parish church of Long Newton, Durham, as published ...Dorothy Wordsworth William HutchinsonHistory and Antiquities of the County Palatine of ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I cannot express how much pleasure my Brother has already received from Dr. Whitaker's Books, though they have been only two days in his possession - Almost the whole ti...William Wordsworth Thomas Dunham WhitakerHistory and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Towe...Sarah Harriet Burney John BayleyHistory and Antiquities of the Tower of London, th...Print: Book
1700-1799'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnson was often very busy. One day Mr Wise read to us a ...Mr Wise Mr WiseHistory and Chronology of the fabulous Ages, AManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Extracted from Bridges. Looked over the Acct. of Croyland Abbey, which supplied me with a hint for the Acct. of Wellingbro' Church, which I added [...] I looked over Par...John Cole J.D. ParryHistory and Description of Woburn and its AbbeyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] Rutherford RussellHistory and Heroes of MedicinePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I read aloud von Sybel's Lectures on the Crusades'George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich von SybelHistory and Literature of the CrusadesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Elinor herself spent much time reading the publications, especially Richard Ingalese's "The History and Power of Mind"; it seemed to fit in, in so many ways, with her ow...Elinor Glyn Richard IngaleseHistory and Power of Mind, TheUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... history booksPrint: Book


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