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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
 
1850-18991 November 1879: 'We left Bruges by an early train, the express, joining the steamer at Ostend, and had a beautiful passage home reading Disraeli's pamphlet, which has...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Benjamin Disraelipamphlet [featuring descriptions of Syria and Cypr...Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 24. III 37
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
3. Disraeli: Doro...		Dorothy Brain Benjamin Disraeli[Letters to his sister]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 24. III 37
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
3. Disraeli: Doro...		Howard Smith Benjamin DisraeliTancredPrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius': 'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) thinks that Ionia observed and experimented freely; that ...Edward Morgan Forster Benjamin FaringtonScience and Politics in the Ancient WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849'In reading Franklin's correspondence, it is impossible not to be entertained by his lively style and I think not to be convinced that he did all in his power to prevent ...Benjamin Newton Benjamin FranklenThe private correspondencePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live bravely and to use my life for noble ends. These wer...Thomas Burt Benjamin FranklinThe Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinPrint: Book
1800-1849'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book with some good sense in it, and not unentertaining; al...Sydney Smith Benjamin FranklinThe Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, L...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Benjamin FranklinMemoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Frank...Print: Book
1700-1799'Dulness is not confined to them [Bishops], it descends to their Sons, witness our celebrated Comedy, [italics] The Suspicious Husband [end italics], which, but for its n...Laetitia Pilkington Benjamin HoadlySuspicious Husband, ThePrint: Unknown
1850-1899?Another book is Jowett?s life; wh. I have read with a good deal of interest. It is too long & too idolatrous; but seems to give one on the whole a good account of the ma...Leslie Stephen Benjamin JowettLife and Letters of Benjamin JowettPrint: Book
1850-1899I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["]Albert Battiscombe Benjamin ThompsonPhilosophical Papers: being a collection of memoirPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre'Mary Shelley Benjamin Thompson (trans.)German TheatrePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'Mary Shelley Benjamin Thompson [trans.]German TheatrePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Benjamin WheelerThe Theological Lectures of the Late Rev. Benjamin...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histo...Mary Russell Mitford Benjamin Nicolas Marie AppertDix Ans a la cour du roi Louis-Philippe et souveni...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Benjamin Pitts CapperA Topographical Dictionary of the United KingdomPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 September 1841: 'Mr Haydon's letters shut up in the best letter of all [i.e. one from Mitford], I received this morning...Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin Robert Haydonletters to Mary Russell MitfordManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 29 October 1842: 'I have to thank you [...] for the sight of a very interesting letter of the Sheffield paper which I se...Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin Robert Haydonletter to the Sheffield Mercury regarding formatio...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 8 January 1843: 'Your autobiography my dear Mr Haydon is delightful! I have been deeply interested in it in all ways [....Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin Robert HaydonautobiographyManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843: 'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, -- to think that for 20 years of our earliest Frie...Benjamin Robert Haydon Benjamin Robert HaydonjournalManuscript: Unknown


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