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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829: 'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles. The ...Elizabeth Barrett St BasilHomily 'De Fide'Print: Book
1850-1899'G Ebers, Homo Sum (German)'Sarah Good Georg EbersHomo SumPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Charles E. Stansfield Martin ArmstrongHoney HarvestUnknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 19 May 1811, on stay with Joanna Baillie at Hampstead: 'Sat by the fire the whole day. Joanna Baillie gave us her drama upon Hope to read; it is onl...Mary Berry Joanna BaillieHopeUnknown
1800-1849'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's "Home" is to be found, and I send them very gladly, ...George Ticknor Catharine M SedgwickHopePrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter 22 November 1813]

'I want to read again Miss Baillie's ''Hope'',which I thought the prettiest of her compositions ...'		Jessie Allen Joanna BaillieHopePrint: Book
1800-1849In introductory note to Felicia Hemans, "The American Forest-Girl": 'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read Catherine Maria Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie" [...] a novel published in 1827...Felicia Hemans Catherine Maria SedgwickHope LesliePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I begin to think that our opinions upon poetry are not consonant. I am no friend to the harmony with whi...Robert Southey William Lisle BowlesHope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recovering Slowly f...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille'Mary Shelley Pierre CorneilleHoracePrint: Book
1900-1945‘Our work and routine is still the same as ever. We are like the fielder who is put at long leg when a good batsman is at the wicket: not because the batsman will eve...Charles Hamilton Sorley Josephine Mary WardHorace BlakePrint: Book
1850-1899'Lunched at Troyes, reached Bale at 7.30. Hotel Euler. Read Stevenson's "Men and Books" and Miss Warlson's [sic] "Horace Chase".' Gertrude Bell Constance Fenimore WoolsonHorace ChasePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the...George Crabbe Horace SmithHorace in LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I heartily concur. - I wish I had the pleasure of Mr. ...George Gordon Lord Byron James and Horace SmithHorace in London; consisting of Imitations of the ...Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940-41) under heading 'Eighteenth Centuriana' include reported last words of Sir Robert Walpole and Sir Thomas ...Edward Morgan Forster R. W. Ketton-CremerHorace Walpole: A BiographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'During those melancholy weeks at Pimlico, I read aloud another work of the same nature as those of Habershon and Jukes, the "Horae Apocalypticae" of a Mr. Elliott. This ...Edmund Gosse Bishop Edward ElliottHorae ApocalypticaePrint: Book
1800-1849'The serious thoughts to which my illness gave rise were much strengthened by my reading at the time several of Dr Watt's "Lyric Poems" which then came first into my hand...Thomas Carter Isaac WattsHorae Lyricae, Poems Chiefly of the Lyric KindPrint: Book
1850-1899'Very clear & convincing — not indeed to be answered. O that my faith may grow more settled as my devotion becomes more warm'G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle William PaleyHorae PaulinaePrint: Book
1800-1849'Prelude MS W [Dove Cottage MS 38)] contains a transcription of Marvell's Horatian Ode dating from late 1802.'William Wordsworth Andrew MarvellHoratian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, ...Unknown
1900-1945'I don't really believe in any superstitions. Sitting down 13 at a table would never worry me in the slightest. However I enjoy having my fortune told and reading my horo... unknownhoroscopePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'It was a joy to have your book ["Hors du Foyer"]. A thousand thanks. I have just finished reading it and, and I am charmed.'Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaHors du FoyerPrint: Book


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