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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'I attended the first meeting of the Philathelic Society - There were many new members, but the society seemed to have undergone no improvement. Jamie Thompson still spe...Thomas Carlyle Thomas IrvingIntroductory AddressPrint: BookManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinThings as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Wi...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage: A RomauntPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Nicholas RoweThe Fair Penitent: A tragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Elizabeth, Lady CravenA Journey through the Crimea to ConstantinoplePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Johann Friedrich von SchillerDer GeisterseherPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage: a RomauntPrint: Book
1800-1849'I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament. Of course I am no judge of his 'new renderings'; but the stile both...Thomas Carlyle William ThomsonThe New Testament. Translated from the Greek, 3 vo...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin William GodwinThings as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Wi...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Thomas, First Baron Erskine[Collection of Speeches, perhaps Speeches of the H...Print: Book
1800-1849'Soon after my arrival here, I fell to Wallace's fluxions, with might and main. I would study, I thought, with great vehemence, every night - and the two hours at noon, ...Thomas Carlyle William Wallace'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Edward Hyde, First Earl of ClarendonThe History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Eng...Print: Book
1800-1849'I perused your theorems with some attention. They are well worthy of a place in the Courier - though not for the purpose you mention. Mr Johnston, if I mistake not, is ...Thomas Carlyle Robert Mitchell'theorems'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Basil Montagu (ed.)The Opinions of different authors upon the punishm...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
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Elizabeth HamiltonMemoirs of Modern PhilosophersPrint: Book
1800-1849'I left Ecclefechan on the evening of Tuesday the 19th Decr on the top of the Glasgow Mail. Little occurred worthy of notice, till on my arrival in Moffatt, I discovered...Unknown 'Scottish Gourmand' n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on paestum are said to be beautiful. The whole poem is not more than 8...Lord and Lady HollandSamuel RogersHuman LifePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are said to be beautiful. The whole poem is not more than 8...John Nicholas Fazackerly Samuel RogersHuman LifePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are said to be beautiful. The whole poem is not more than 8...Samuel RogersHuman LifePrint: Unknown


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