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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
 
1850-1899'Began the Italianische Reise.'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheItalianische ReisePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he lay in bed. G. read Henry IV'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheItalianische ReisePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Henry James to Urbain Mengin, 1 January 1903: 'Your great handsome wide-margined large-printed, yellow-covered "Italie des Romantiques" came to me safely more months ago ...Henry James Urbain MenginItalie des RomantiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Dec. 10th. [...] Read Lady Morgan's Italy'. [further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for 11, 12, 14, 15, 25, 27 December 1821, with 'Finish...Claire Clairmont Sydney Owenson, Lady MorganItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 7 June 1838: 'I turned over the leaves of Mr Reade's poem for some minutes before I opened your letter'. Elizabeth Barrett John Edmund ReadeItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 April 1839: 'Mr Reade has power [...] both of thought & language [...] It [Italy] is the only poem of Mr Reade's I ever r...Elizabeth Barrett John Edmund ReadeItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday September 1st. [...] Finish Anastasius and begin Lady Morgan's Italy. [...] 'Sunday Sept -- 2nd. [...] Read Lady Morgan's Italy -- [...] ''Monday Se...Claire Clairmont Sydney Owenson, Lady MorganItaly (Volume I)Print: Book
1900-1945'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugees [...] began to reach Palestine: "I was long silent...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas HodgkinItaly and Her Invaders 376-476 (vol. I)Print: Book
1800-1849'Looking at Galiffe's tour - he has a curious theory that the language of old Rome was Russian.'John Ruskin James GaliffeItaly and its inhabitants: an account of a tour in...Print: Book
1600-1699'To church again; and so home to my wife and with her read "Iter boreale", a poem made just at the King's coming home but I never read it before, and now like it pretty w...Samuel Pepys [Robert] [Wild]Iter borealePrint: Book
1700-1799'In examining a fig which we had found at our last going ashore, we found in the fruit a "Cynips", very like, if not exactly the same species as "Cynips sycomori", Linn.,...Joseph Banks Fredrik HasselquistIter PalestinumPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal marks (++) throughout, one date (p. 68 'Feb, 18.19'), and very occasional comments; eg. longest example is p. 83 at the end of the section 'Tombeau...Mariano VasiItineraire instructif de Rome a Naples ou descript...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal marks (*) and dates throughout the guidebook, with v.2 more heavily marked than v.1.: eg. p.376-7 against the text line 'L'Eglise de St. Francois' ...Magdalene Erskine Mariano VasiItineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ...Print: Book
1900-1945'It only remains for me to add that I am on page 24 of "Ivan the Terrible"; that is to say that I have been comforted 24 times by complete forgetfulness of my difficultie...Joseph Conrad Kazimierz WaliszewskiIvan le Terrible Print: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were considered. Edward Little read a paper on his Life. ...Charles Stansfield Leo TolstoyIvan the FoolPrint: Book
1900-1945'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him...F.W. Jowett Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...Patricia Beer Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is...Rose Macaulay Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 30th September ?Ivanhoe? (Walter Scott) Late work still the order of the ? night. All is still confusion and chaos. My life at present is a tale of muggi...Gerald Moore Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book


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