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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'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to ...Thomas Carlyle Thomas MortimerThe British PlutarchPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to ...Thomas Carlyle Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to ...Thomas Carlyle Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to His SonPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is already past twelve o'clock, and I am tired and sleepy; but I cannot go to rest without answering the kind little note which you sent me, and acknowledging these n...Thomas Carlyle Margaret A. CarlyleLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Blackwood and another in the weekly journal which I ca...James Hogg [article on 'Agriculture' in Blackwood's Edinburg...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Blackwood and another in the weekly journal which I ca...James Hogg Walter Scott [letters in ] Edinburgh Weekly JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It is clear to me that mesmerism is not to be poo-pood, but diligently & reverently investigated'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Harriet Martineau2nd and 3rd Letters on MesmerismPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'It is comical to read Swift's journal along with Maurice, so undoubting and passionate, angry and affectionate.'Emma Darwin Jonathan SwiftA Journal to StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the "Christian Year", and it opened at a poem for the 20th Sunday after Trinity, which I ha...John Ruskin [n/a]Christian YearPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is dificult to express the joy I felt at the arrival of the "Complete Works of M. Barnabooth".[...].The first reading of the "Journal Intime" makes an unforgettable i...Joseph Conrad Valéry-Nicolas LarbaudA.O.BarnaboothPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y...Aneurin Bevan n/aThe MagnetPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y...Aneurin Bevan n/aThe GemPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y...Aneurin Bevan H. Rider Haggard[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y...Aneurin Bevan William Le Queux[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y...Aneurin Bevan John Buchan[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y...Aneurin Bevan Phillips Oppenheim[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'It is Eveng. We have drank tea & I have torn through the 3d vol. of the Heroine, & do not think it falls off. - It is a delightful burlesque, particularly on the Radclif...Jane Austen Eaton Stannard BarrettThe Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina, third vo...Print: Book
1800-1849'It is impossible to read a more entertaining book, & it very much exalts one's opinion of the author's ability. But what a picture he draws & exhibits in himself of huma...G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle John HerveyMemoirs of the Reign of George the Second, from hi...Print: Book
1700-1799'It is known to every learned Divine, that the Priests engross'd the whole Country of [italics] Egypt [end italics], as the eldest Son of ev'ry Priest was born a Priest, ...Laetitia Pilkington Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of ShaftesburyCharacteristicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is many a weary year since I have been so idle or so happy. I have not done two sheets of Werter yet; I read Richter and Jacobi, I ride, and hoe cabbages, and like Ba...Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich RichterunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Letter


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