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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
 
1850-1899'Geology'Sarah Good Archibald GeikieGeologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just seen the Pound pamphlet though Farrar & Rinehart never took the trouble to send me a copy. I think it looks fine and is a tribute not only to Mr. Pound but...Ford Madox Ford Archibald MacLeishThe Hamlet of A. MacLeishPrint: Book
1900-1945'This morning we made for Bécourt Wood. In a sand-bag shelter in the wood I found two novels—"Exton Manor" by Archibald Marshall and "Justice" by Galsworthy, which I have...Douglas Herbert Bell Archibald MarshallExton ManorPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpid...Virginia Woolf Archibald Hamilton RowanThe Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton RowanPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to read, but it does give you life's problems, doesn't i...Archibald Joseph CroninHatter's CastlePrint: Book
1900-1945'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to read, but it does give you life's problems, doesn't i...Archibald Joseph CroninThe stars look downPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lovely book.'Archibald Joseph CroninThe Stars Looked DownPrint: Book
1900-194518 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation into the rest of this page [...] it was about all manner of things [......Roger Fry Aristophanes LysistrataManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one...Aristotle EthicsPrint: Book
1600-1699Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series of huge figures in the sky," including "that of an o...Henry More Aristotle MechanicsPrint: Book
1500-1599'In 1568 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased a copy of Aristotle's "Organon"; in 1572 he was given a copy of Aristotle's "Rhetoric". Both Greek texts were copiously annotated and ...Gabriel Harvey Aristotle OrganonPrint: Book
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1600-1699		'In 1568 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased a copy of Aristotle's "Organon"; in 1572 he was given a copy of Aristotle's "Rhetoric". Both Greek texts were copiously annotated and ...Gabriel Harvey Aristotle RhetoricPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842: 'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his work upon rhetoric -- but I mean to take him regu...Elizabeth Barrett Aristotle PoeticsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842: 'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his work upon rhetoric -- but I mean to take him regu...Elizabeth Barrett Aristotle EthicsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842: 'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his work upon rhetoric -- but I mean to take him regu...Elizabeth Barrett Aristotle 'work upon rhetoric'Print: Book
1900-1945Entries in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1926) include passage on character in tragedy from Aristotle, Poetics.Edward Morgan Forster Aristotle PoeticsPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reasoning is generally indistinct, and in some places unin...George Grote Aristotle Nicomachean EthicsPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Read part of the first book of Aristotle's Politics, with a view to ascertain his notions o...George Grote Aristotle PoliticsPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this day. Between 4 and 5 I set to and read his Pamphle...George Grote Aristotle  Print: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 16 December 1840: 'I have been reading, and am still reading, B. de St. Hilaire, "De la Logique d'Aristote.' I have been going through s...George Grote Aristotle  Print: Book


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