Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   488 489 490 491 492  493  494 495 496 497 498   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'Mary Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the accession of James I t...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. begins Hist of Engd'Percy Bysshe Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the accession of James I t...Print: Book
1800-1849'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd'Mary Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the Accession of James I t...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the Tyrant - suggested by the pigs at the fair of St Giul...Percy Bysshe Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the Accession of James I t...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the Accession of James I t...Print: Book
1700-1799?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s History of England, both for the 2d time over & in t...John Marsh Oliver GoldsmithHistory of England from the earliest times to the ...Print: Book
1850-1899'As to books, we (in this house) are very old-fashioned; and I am only now indulging in Froude's "Elizabeth". I did not mean to read it, - being disgusted by his dishones...Harriet Martineau James Anthony FroudeHistory of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley David HumeHistory of England from the Invasion of Julius Cae...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley David HumeHistory of England from the Invasion of Julius Cae...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's England aloud in the evening after our walk.'Percy Bysshe Shelley David HumeHistory of England from the Invasion of Julius Cae...Print: Book
1800-1849'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's England'Percy Bysshe Shelley David HumeHistory of England from the Invasion of Julius Cae...Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithHistory of England in a Series of Letters from a N...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading little [since I last wrote to you] except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c...Thomas Carlyle Tobias SmollettHistory of England [probably]Print: Book
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England: 'He has written some very brilliant essays [...] but ...John Gibson Lockhart Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of England, vols 1 and 2Print: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 1 February 1849:

'The parcel [of books, from Williams] came yesterday [...] The choice of books is perfect...		Patrick Brontë Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of England: From the Accession of James IIPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the time of Edward I by F. W. Maitland? It is a wonderf...Leslie Stephen F. W. MaitlandHistory of English LawPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have read your history; and when I say ?read? I mean that I have turned over the pages and read all such parts as were apparently on a level with my comprehension?I fo...Leslie Stephen F W MaitlandHistory of English LawPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read...George Gissing Hippolyte TaineHistory of English LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

[...]

2. Minutes of last read + approved.

3. A. B. D...		Dorothea Taylor Hippolyte Adolphe TaineHistory of English LiteraturePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Craik's "History of English Literature"... up to end of XVth Century'George Eliot [pseud] George Lillie CraikHistory of English Literature and the English Lang...Print: Book


Go to page: [1]   488 489 490 491 492  493  494 495 496 497 498   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design