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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
 
1800-1849Tuesday, 23 January 1827: 'Betwixt dinner and tea while husbanding a tumbler of whisky and water I read the new novel Elizabeth de Bruce -- part of it that is'. Walter Scott Christian Isobel JohnsonElizabeth de BrucePrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 27 January 1827: 'Read Elizth. de Bruce -- it is very clever but does not show much originality: the characters though very entertaining are in the manner of...Walter Scott Christian Isobel JohnsonElizabeth de BrucePrint: Book
1800-1849'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work that pleased me better and was so truly congenial t...James Hogg Christian Isobel JohnstoneElizabeth de BrucePrint: Book
1850-1899'you will receive a Lyra Germanica from me the day after you get this letter, - I always wanted you to have it, & wished for your appreciation of Kate Winkworth's transla...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Christian Karl Josias BunsenLyra GermanicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Last week I perused von Buch's "travels in Norway & Lapland". Much of his attention is devoted to Mineralogy, of which I am very ignorant, and his movements are sometime...Thomas Carlyle Christian Leopold, Baron von BuchReise durch Norwegen und LapplandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,...John Paton Christian Matthias Theodor MommsenHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Hermann d'Unna'Mary Godwin Christiane Benedicte Eugenie NaubertHermann von Unna, eine Geschicte aus den Zeiten de...Print: Book
1800-1849'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go up to Diodati - Read Rienzi'.Mary Godwin Christiane Benedicte Eugenie NaubertHermann von Unna, eine Geschicte aus den Zeiten de...Print: Book
1850-1899'Writing to his sister on 11 January 1892 ... [Walter Raleigh] declared: "I have been reading Christina Rossetti -- three or four of her poems, like those of her brother,...Walter Raleigh Christina RossettipoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma...Ralph Finn Christina Rossetti Print: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolChristina Rossetti Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it ...Virginia Stephen Christina RossettipoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, ...Philip Larkin Christina Rossetti[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Down here with my mother I feel that nothing can be so preposterous, so undignified as "love". I have been reading her ludicrous, pathetic, nauseating diary about hersel...Antonia White Christine Botting[diary]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle Christoph WielandOberon. Ein Gedicht in 14 GesangenPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'While walking to Hampstead, I strayed into a copse not far from my road, where I seated myself upon the trunk of a tree, and read, with no small pleasure, several of the...Thomas Carter Christoph Christian SturmReflections on the Works of God and of His Provide...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christoph Friedrich NicolaiUeber meine gelehrte BildungPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christoph Martin WielandComische ErzahlungenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christoph Martin WielandWielands Neueste GedichtePrint: Book
1700-1799'"I am translating the Oberon of Wieland," C[oleridge] told [Thomas] Poole, 20 Nov 1797.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christoph Martin WielandOberonUnknown


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