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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 23 December 1815: 'We have now nine sheets of the journal [by Captain Luff re time in Mauritius] - I do not intend to read it un...Dorothy Wordsworth Captain LuffjournalManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (May 1823 [sic]): 'Do tell Captain Lyon that I, and others far better than I am, are enchanted with his book.'Lady Caroline Lamb Captain LyonPrivate Journal during the recent Voyage of Discov...Unknown
1850-1899"Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S...Robert Blatchford Captain Marryat[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble Butler to John Murray, 26 March 1836: 'Surely Captain Marryat is not a man to be trifled with; he don't write as if he were. How much I like his books, an...Fanny Kemble Butler Captain Marryat Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Captain Marryatt[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849William Blackwood to John Murray (May 1817): 'What a treat you have given to Mrs. B. and me in "Riley"! I never read anything so affecting and interesting. We cried ov...William and Mrs BlackwoodCaptain RileyThe Authentic Narrative of the loss of the America...Print: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 13 April 1831: 'My nap [same afternoon] was a very short one and was agreeably replaced by Basil Hall's Fragments of Voyages. Every thing about the i[n]side...Walter Scott Captain Basil HallFragments of Voyages and TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Captain Charles Pasley, 28 March 1811: 'Now for your book. I had expected it with great impatience, and desired a Friend to send it down to me imme...William Wordsworth Captain Charles PasleyAn Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions o...Print: Book
1800-1849'Marryat's diary on Continent gives many interesting anecdotes of animals, but I am afraid to remember them, lest they should not be true'John Ruskin Captain Frederick MarryatDiary in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 3 March 1840: 'I had a kind message from Captain Marryat once [...] but I have never seen him. Without being one of his ind...Mary Russell Mitford Captain Frederick Marryat, R.N.novelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 10 March 1826: 'Breakfasted with me Mr. Francks [...] and Captain Longmore of the Royal Staff. He has written a book of poetry, Tales of Chivalry and Romance...Walter Scott Captain George LongmoreTales of Chivalry and RomancePrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady Strachey read to us -- to me for the most part, as L[eonard]. was late. She...Jane Maria, Lady Strachey Captain Ronald A. Hopwood'The Old Way'Print: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 13 May 1827: 'Spent the day, which was delightful, wandering from place to place in the woods, sometimes reading the new and interesting volumes of Cyril Thorn...Walter Scott Captain Thomas HamiltonThe Youth and Manhood of Cyril ThorntonPrint: Book
1800-1849W. J. Broderip to John Murray, submitting Captain W. Cornwallis Harris's Wild Sports in South Africa, 8 April 1839: 'Capt. Harris's book is entertaining, and seems t...W. J. Broderip Captain W. Cornwallis HarrisWild Sports in South AfricaManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read also Cardinal Wiseman on Chartres and the Chemise - very wonderful and delightful.'John Ruskin Cardinal Wiseman[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816: 'Among many things at Milan, one pleased me particularly, viz. the correspondence ... of Lucretia Borgia wth Cardinal Bembo ... I ...George Gordon Lord Byron Cardinal; Lucretia Bembo; de BorgialettersManuscript: Letter, Unknown
1900-1945'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure". Only later did he appreciate it as a religious al...Harry West Carl Jung Print: Book
1900-1945'Harold gave me the ?Definitive Edition? of the Week-end Book for Xmas. It has drawings by Rutherston, and will be very precious I understand as a first edition. Will ...Winifred Agnes Moore Carl Van VechtenNigger HeavenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Carl Alexander Ferdinand KlugeVersuch einer Darstellung des animalischen MagnetiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Carl Alexander Ferdinand KlugeVersuch einer Darstellung des animalischen MagnetiPrint: Book


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