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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
 
1900-1945'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.Hilary Spalding Axel MuntheStory of San Michele, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932: 'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -- writing -- only the wrong sid...Virginia Woolf Axel MuntheThe Story of San MichelePrint: Book
1900-1945'From Axel Munthe's "San Michele": "Imprisoned monkeys, so long as they are in company, live on the whole a supportable life. They are so busy finding out all that is goi...Thomas Kitching Axel MuntheSan MichelePrint: Newspaper
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'Aristotle.' I have been going through ...George Grote B. de St HilaireDe la logique d'AristotePrint: Book
1900-1945'After dinner it was warmer and I sat on deck and read "Les Cosaques". I finished Putnam Neale's [sic] "Indiscreet Letters from Peking" in the afternoon, a curious book.'...Gertrude Bell B. L. Putnam WealeIndiscreet Letters from Peking: being the notes of...Print: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson notes handwritten insertion of names of persons identified only by initials in H. Giles's copy of B. L. Putnam Weale, Indiscreet Letters from Peking (an "a...H. Giles B. L. Putnam WealeIndiscreet Letters from PekingPrint: Book
1800-184918,19. Frid. Sat. Two very idle days- read a little Allgebraic Geometry, in Powell and Lardner [...]. William Ewart Gladstone Baden PowellThe elements of curves: designed for the use of st...Print: Book
1800-184925 Fri. [...] Rode to Cuddesdon with Bruce- to remain there for a fortnight. read Powell's Differential Calculus in aftn & evg [...]. William Ewart Gladstone Baden PowellAn elementary treatise on the geometry of curves a...Print: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia show that he studied Castiglione [...] with considerable care [...] In 1572 he acquired [Thomas] Hoby's translation of Castiglione's [itali...Gabriel Harvey Baldassare CastiglioneThe Book of the CourtierPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Tait and Stewart’s new book. As far as I have gone, a little disappointed. Is my father reading it?'Robert Louis Stevenson Balfour/Peter Guthrie [joint authors] Stewart/TaitParadoxical Philosophy, a Sequel to the Unseen Uni...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, mid-May 1837: 'I have been much pleased lately in reading Lady Dacre's translations from Petrarch, which she has very kind...Elizabeth Barrett Barbarina Brand, Lady DacreTranslations from the ItalianPrint: Book
1500-1599'On sig. A2 of "A New Letter of Notable Contents" (1593) [Gabriel] Harvey refers to [Barnabe Barnes, "Parthenophil and Parthenophe" as one of the recently-read books rece...Gabriel Harvey Barnabe BarnesParthenophil and Parthenope. Sonnettes, madrigals...Print: Book
1800-1849'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols...Sarah Harriet Burney Baron E.L. de la Mothe - HoudancourtMemoires de Madame la comtesse de BarriPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this]'. Claire Clairmont Baron Felix de BockLes Chevaliers des sept montagnes, ou aventures ar...Print: Book
1800-1849'The Dr [Brewster] stopped to tell me that he had got a paper on Chemistry written (in French) by Berzelius, professor of that science in Stockholm - which was to be publ...Thomas Carlyle Baron Jacob BerzeliusExamination of some compounds which depend upon ve...Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'With respect to my occupations at this period; they are not of the most important nature. Berzelius' paper is printed - I was this day correcting the proof-sheet-. The...Thomas Carlyle Baron Jacob BerzeliusExamination of some compounds which depend upon ve...Print: Proof-sheet
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 December 1843: 'I have read in Baron Dupotet's & Dr Stone's book upon Mesmerism, that in cases of the chest, it will not av...Elizabeth Barrett Baron Jean du Potet de SennevoyAn Introduction to the Study of Animal Magnetism ....Print: Book
1800-1849'I am reading for the second [time] "The System of Nature", by Holbach and Diderot, if every one would read it, they would soon discover, by reasoning the most correct & ...Anna Doyle Wheeler Baron Paul Henrich Dietrich d'HolbachLe Systeme de la naturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Wrote a letter home asking for statement of accounts ... Many Fr. and Russians (Baltic) arrived. Read Scarlet Pimpernel.'William Thomas Baroness OrczyThe Scarlet PimpernelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mon. 9-11 Tennis[.] Weak. Then read Eldorado by Baroness Orczy. No letter. [Thomas then lists debts incurred in that day's round of roulette games.]William Thomas Baroness OrczyEl Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet PimpernelPrint: Book


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