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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
 
1900-1945'Phyliis's novel, "Inheritance", had become the fiction-star of that spring.'Vera Brittain Phyllis BentleyInheritancePrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Inheritance" is excellent, & perhaps, Miss Ferrier's best - at least, it has left the best taste in my mouth: but I quite, & always did, prefer Miss Austen'.Sarah Harriet Burney Susan FerrierInheritance, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as the sister of David Wilkie. Never was there such a p...James Hogg Susan Edmonstone FerrierInheritance, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Are not Maria and Anny a thousand times preferable to the Miss in "Inheritance", who describes the Lakes of Cumberland?'Louisa, Lady Stuart Susan FerrierInheritance, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading Injuries to Joints — capital. Nice & cool again.'Albert Ruskin Cook Robert JonesInjuries to JointsPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
Surgical Diagnosis – Martin
Tropical Diseases – Stitt
Abdominal Injuries – Morison & R.
Household ...		Albert Ruskin Cook Robert JonesInjuries to JointsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Can you tell who wrote the Review of Miss Martineau's letters in the (this week's) Inquirer signed I.R.'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Inquirer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A review for Brewster's philosophical journal of a German book on Magnetism, I must also write or say I cannot - the former alternative is better: and then (as our man o...Thomas Carlyle Professor HansteenInquiries Concerning the Magnetism of the EarthPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1700-1799I was finally induced to come to this determination sooner than I should otherwise have done by reading Mr Godwins 'Enquiry concerning Political Justice'.Francis Place William GodwinInquiry Concerning Political JusticePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Shaftesbury's "Enquiry concerning Virtue". His ideas are not very distinctly state; but he seems, to place Virtue in a proper management of the affections...'Thomas Green Anthony Ashley CooperInquiry concerning VirtuePrint: Book
1800-1849'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are...George Crabbe Edward CoplestonInquiry into the Doctrines of Necessity & Predesti...Print: Book
1700-1799'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue'], by which he had acquired some Degree of...Laetitia Pilkington Francis HutchesonInquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty a...Print: Book
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington Francis HutchesonInquiry into the Originals of our Ideas of Beauty ...Print: Book
'C[oleridge] read Greville's An Inquisition upon Fame and Honour... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke GrevilleInquisition upon Fame and Honour, AnPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm off reading this period, glance at Insanity Bir, and open Marjorie's British Commonwealth by Ramsay Muir, at the every page that shows so plainly how Napoleon first ... unknownInsanity BirPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading Insanity Fair by Douglas Reed. He was all through the last War. Then had a job in Germany and knew that from the moment the Nazis were in we should have to fi...Vere Hodgson Douglas ReedInsanity FairPrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after being sent an 'Album' belonging to Queen Victoria, with the request that he write something in it before returni...Alfred Tennyson Duchess of KentinscriptionManuscript: Unknown, In Album belonging to Queen Victoria
1900-1945The day's finds have been brought in, all the diggers so excited they rushed in with them to show me on my roof. There was a sort of communal grave with about six s...Freya Stark unknown unknowninscription on potteryManuscript: Graffito, inscription on pottery
1800-1849'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It were long to tell you fully my opinion of the work, w...Thomas Carlyle Eliza DraperInscription to Raynal's 'History of the E. and W. ...Print: Book
1900-1945'In a lecture at Friends' House he spoke of a new Blitzkrieg timed to start on May 1st, and designed to overthrow England in Polish fashion by the end of the summer. His...Vera Brittain Oswald Garrison VillardInside GermanyPrint: Book


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