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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 suppose you shared the benefit, so common, thank God! in our generation, - of an early, & thorough familiarity with Mrs Barbauld's Prose Hymns. I know no book influen...Harriet Martineau Anna Laetitia BarbauldHymns in Prose for ChildrenPrint: Book
1700-1799'Another book which thus came in my way was Mrs Barbauld's "Hymns for Children" which I soon perceived to be exactly suited both to my taste and my capacity. Here I met w...Thomas Carter Anna Letitia BarbauldHymns in Prose for ChildrenPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Charles Kingsley (1853): 'Part of the conclusion [of Hypatia] seems to me particularly valuable. I mean the talk of the Christianized Jew to the cla...Alfred Tennyson Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his taste, and re-reading "Tancred", and writing "more ...Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charles KingsleyHypatia - or New Foes with an Old FacePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Mrs Meyrick Charles KingsleyHypatia or New Foes with an Old FacePrint: Book
1800-1849I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the ...Elizabeth Barrett John KeatsHyperionPrint: Book
1900-1945Letter 202 to Ralph Hodges, Woodstock, N.Y., Aug 15 1939: 'I?ve done lots of work ? finished this small piece for Toronto I mentioned to you ? "Young Apollo" (after Keat...Benjamin Britten John KeatsHyperionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Nov. 10th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.'Claire Clairmont John KeatsHyperionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Feb. 27th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.'Claire Clairmont John KeatsHyperionPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hyperion aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley John KeatsHyperionPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Holderlin's Hyperion -- I wish someone would translate ...Edward Morgan Forster Johann Christian Friedrich HolderlinHyperionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Dec. 29th. [...] read Hypermnestre a tragedy by M. le Mierre and Rhadamiste et Zenobie by I. Crebillon.'Claire Clairmont Antoine Marin LemierreHypermnestrePrint: Book
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1600-1699		'At the end of Sacchi de Platina's "Hystoria de Vitis pontificum" (c.1505) [Gabriel] Harvey adds his index of Popes and page references.'Gabriel Harvey Sacchi de PlatinaHystoria de Vitis pontificumPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen Robert Nicholls' poems? If you are a reader of "Tait's Magazine", you will see the review of them; that is a right manly and sterling volume of poetry, ful...Mary Howitt Robert NichollsI Dare not ScornPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniI Due Pantaloni o i mercantantiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily w...Antonia White Tom HopkinsonI have been DrownedUnknown
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1900-1945		'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books show that by this time there was a tremendous demand on ...Hannah Mitchell Helena SwanwickI have been YoungPrint: Book


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