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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
 
1800-1849[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibbon - We read and are delighted with Lara - the fines...Mary Godwin and Percy ShelleyGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronLara: a talePrint: Book
1800-1849[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibbon - We read and are delighted with Lara - the fines...Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronLara: a talePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Lara'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronLara: a talePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814: 'I believe I told you of Larry and Jacquy [ie Lara and Jacqueline, poems by Byron and Samuel Rogers respectively, published to...George Gordon Lord ByronLara; JacquelinePrint: Book
1600-1699'This morning I lay long abed; then to my office, where I read all the morning my Spanish book of Rome.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Las cosas maravillosas della sancta ciudad de RomaPrint: Book
1850-1899J. H. Ewing diary entry: 'Last Chronicle of Barset'Juliana Horatia Ewing Anthony TrollopeLast Chronicle of BarsetPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Edward Bulwer-LyttonLast Days of PompeiiPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf Roger FryLast LecturesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the books my friends kindly sent me to while away time wa...Louisa, Lady Stuart Mary ShelleyLast Man, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The most spirit-stirring author, next to the Great Unknown [walter Scott], that I have met with, is the American who has written the spy, and the Last of the Mohicans, &...Sarah Harriet Burney James Fenimore CooperLast of the Mohicans, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: "As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, except that I am more disgusted with his conduct after ...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLast PhilippicPrint: Book
1900-1945'From the United States Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, inspired by the same thought, sent me an article called "Last Plea for Europe" which he had published in "The Christi...Vera Brittain Oswald Garrison VillardLast Plea for EuropePrint: article published in a periodical
1900-1945'first let me say how splendid I think the "Last Post" is. (By the way, Duckworth has acknowledged receipt of MSS, so that's all safe). Mark's death is a lovely poem. And...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ford Madox FordLast Post, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'first let me say how splendid I think the "Last Post" is. (By the way, Duckworth has acknowledged receipt of MSS, so that's all safe). Mark's death is a lovely poem. And...Ford Madox FordLast Post, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Mo...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox FordLast Post, ThePrint: page proofs for American edition
1900-1945'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Mo...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox FordLast Post, ThePrint: page proofs for English edition
1900-1945'I am very touched by all the tributes in your New Year's letter, & enormously pleased with The Last Post. I don't believe you have any last idea how much I admire your g...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ford Madox FordLast Post, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'I have begun Latin, and I have gotten as far in the Grammar as "Propriae quae maribus"; I do...Edward Moulton-Barrett Latin BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help W...Oscar Wilde Lewis and ShortLatin DictionaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1830: 'As you like epigrams, & are not likely to have met with one which I met with yesterday in the Times newspape...Elizabeth Barrett Latin epigraphPrint: Newspaper


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