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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
 
1600-1699'And there I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday; and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good as "The Maiden Queen" or "The Indian Imperour", of his...Elizabeth Pepys Madame de Scud?riIbrahim, ou L'illustre BassaPrint: Book
1800-1849'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met wi...Thomas Carter Ebenezer HendersonIceland, or the Journal of a Residence in that Isl...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 11 November 1797: 'Amos Cottles translation of the Edda is published, & I have brought over a copy for you. you know it was my intentio...Robert Southey Amos Simon CottleIcelandic Poetry, or the Edda of Saemund Translate...Print: Book
1600-1699'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way reading in a good book touching the Fishery; and th...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Ichthyothera; or the royal trade of fishing [proba...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von SchellingIdeen zu einer Philosophie der NaturPrint: Book
1700-1799'Yet there are in the "Idler" several papers which shew as much profundity of thought, and labour of language, as any of this great man's writings'. [Boswell mentions num...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonIdler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- the sort of thing I required [for preparation for tr...Edward Morgan Forster Alice PerrinIdolatryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tis true they have no public places but the bagnios...I was three days ago at one of the finest in the town, and had the opportunity of seeing a Turksih bride recieved t...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu TheocritusIdyll 18Unknown
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... some "Idylls" of Gesner ...Mountstuart Elphinstone GesnerIdyllsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley TheocritusIdyllsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley TheocritusIdyllsPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter 444. March, 31st, 1832: "I think it may be better to write directly to yourself, on the subject you enquire about. In Theocritus—καλα ε...Elizabeth Barrett Browning TheocritusIdyllsPrint: Book
1850-1899W. M. Thackeray to Alfred Tennyson, [September-] October [1859]: 'I owe you a letter of happiness and thanks. Sir, about three weeks ago, when I was ill in bed, I read...William Makepeace Thackeray Alfred TennysonIdylls of the KingPrint: Book
1850-1899H. R. H. Prince Albert to Alfred Tennyson, 17 May 1860: 'Will you forgive me if I intrude upon your leisure with a request which I have thought some little time of mak...Prince Albert Alfred TennysonIdylls of the KingPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pres...Emily Tennyson Alfred TennysonIdylls of the KingUnknown
1850-1899John Ruskin to Alfred Tennyson, from Strasburg (1860): 'I have had the "Idylls" in my travelling desk ever since I could get them across the water, and have only not w...John Ruskin Alfred TennysonIdylls of the KingPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Henry Tippett] read us a great mixture of things, from history (in which he was steeped) and historical romances such as Ford Madox Ford's "Lady with Bright Eyes" [s...Michael Tippett Alfred, Lord TennysonIdylls of the KingPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Idylls of the King & Maud'Sarah Good Alfred, Lord TennysonIdylls of the KingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly a...members of XII Book ClubR.B. GrahamIf Christianity had WonManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolled by mere chance into a Bookseller's Shop, where how...Hester Lynch Thrale Anon.ife and Memoirs of Mr Ephraim Tristram Bates, comm...Print: Book


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