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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'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and sweet face of nature. It was at this time, I think, that...Thomas Carter Samuel RogersHuman Life, a PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have received Mr Roger's poem of which I was happy to hear an admirable Character at Bath & in Company where nothing would be said without due Consideration: some Pass...friends of CrabbeSamuel RogersHuman Life, A PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I assure you that I heard, no inferior or ordinary Judge...lady friends of CrabbeSamuel RogersHuman Life, A PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I assure you that I heard, no inferior or ordinary Judge...George Crabbe Samuel RogersHuman Life, A PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849Had no company. Passed the afternoon reading part of Boston's Fourfold State.Adam Mackie Thomas BostonHuman Nature in its Fourfold StatePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'.George Eliot (pseud) John William DraperHuman PhysiologyPrint: Book
1900-1945Brief summary of notes on inside front cover, and marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Charlotte Perkins GilmanHuman WorkPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hobbes'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas HobbesHumane NaturePrint: Book
1850-1899[following journal entry for 1 November 1879] 'The next few days [following seven weeks' travels in Europe] were occupied unpacking, after which the Schreibers went to Ca...Lady Charlotte Schreiber William Makepeace ThackerayHumoristsPrint: Book
1850-18997 December 1879: 'I was a little chilly in the morning [...] and I feared I had taken cold, so I did not go out. Read over the fire. First Freeman's account of the Bay...Lady Charlotte Schreiber William Makepeace ThackerayHumoristsPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding F AnsteyHumour and FantasyPrint: Book
1850-189919 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettHumphrey ClinkerPrint: Book
1850-1899November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettHumphry ClinkerPrint: Book
1850-1899'Coming home we saw Erasmus Wilson who had been reading "Hunger and Thirst" and expressed great value for it.'Erasmus Wilson unknown Hunger and ThirstPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Daphne Du MaurierHungry HillPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'Mr. Hogg's Badlew (I suppose it to be his) I could not get through. There are two pretty passages; the flight of ...William Wordsworth J. H.Hunting of Badlew, a Dramatic Tale, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'By the by have you read my friend Mr Crag's [sic] "Hunting of Badlewe" published by Colburne. If you have not I wish you would and tell me punctually what you think of h...James Hogg J. H. CraigHunting of Badlewe, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original production that ever this country gave birth to and another ...James Hogg J.H. CraigHunting of Badlewe, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the first John Buchan I read. John Dickson Carr – I loved...Hilary Spalding John BuchanHunting TowerPrint: Book
1700-1799Pits said he had read Hurlothrumbo to some ladies till he was mad, and they were mad, and they were all mad; Strut commended the epilogue.Samuel 'Maggoty' JohnsonHurlothrumbo


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