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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 16 March, 1797: 'We have been here now nearly a month. I read much Law — & find time to write. for company I have neither leisu[re or MS...Robert Southey anonLaw booksPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L...William Prynne Giles WiddowesLawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall PuritanPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L...Giles WiddowesLawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall PuritanPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L...anon ("others") Giles WiddowesLawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall PuritanPrint: Book, proof copy
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Mary S. Stansfield A. W. LawrenceLawrence by his FriendsPrint: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 11 July 1830: 'I have begun Lawrie Todd which ought considering the author's indisputed talents to have been better. He might have laid [James Fenimore] Cowper...Walter Scott John GaltLawrie ToddPrint: Book
1850-1899'Today began Plato's "Laws" again at breakfast and felt a little brighter.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1850-1899'See noble passage on the greatest [Greek word], Plato, Laws, 42.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I pretty well, and at Plato by 1/2 past six ... Plato, 117, of vain words &c., with the central laws read today, lovely for new Sheffield colony'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked back to Plato on weaving, Laws V, p. 151.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Today I began my Plato again, properly, at page 409, after an effort failing at p. 407.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy'Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis BeaumontLaws of Candy, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" Laws of ecclesiastical polity and the "very profound...Elizabeth Carter HookerLaws of ecclesiastical polityPrint: Book
1900-1945'Last week I got a copy of that little book of yours on Icelandic Sagas, which I found very interesting, and as a result I have now bought a translation of the "Laxdael...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]Laxdaela SagaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tea in Garden[.] Went out with May to lower Heath. Finished "Lay down yr. arms" Read again Stephen [indecipherable]. Supper in garden. Hot bath.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Martha von TillingLay Down Your ArmsPrint: BookUnknown
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to '_____', from Albano, April 1861 [re Remains of Roman theatre at Tusculum]: 'The seats of this Theatre are quite perfect [...] We ...Thomas Babington MacaulayLay of the Battle of Lake RegillusPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'When he was finally exposed to Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, [Robert Story] reeled from the shock of the new. Pope may have been too refined, but this, Story insiste...Robert Story Walter ScottLay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the latter almost entirely, by heart, merely from his de...Thomas Babington Macaulay Walter ScottLay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I had a present of a very elegant copy of the "Lay" lately from a gentleman in Edin. to whom I was ashamed to confess that I had it not. This is g[TEAR] you a hint that ...James Hogg Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Book, Unknown


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