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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
 
1800-1849Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 8 March 1823: 'We are now doing Cicero in the evening instead of doing Homer both morning and...Thomas Moulton-Barrett and boys at CharterhouseCicero unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'we each [Elizabeth Barrett and her brother Edward] are blessed with abilities -- my dear Bro's are more solid & more profound -- mine are more refined & dazzling [...]...Elizabeth Barrett Cicero unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945MS date of reading by G.O. Trevelyan: Sep 2 1922. Also: "The pencil notes in this volume, which are cut off partially in the re-binding of it, are by a previous possessor...George Otto Trevelyan Cicero The treatises of M.T. CiceroPrint: Book
1800-1849'[During autumn 1817] she [Lady Byron] was well and happy with M. G. [i.e. her friend Lady Gosford] at Kirkby, reading Cicero and admiring his rejection of Expediency, "h...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Cicero  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?Walpole?s Catle of Otranto, though dramatized by Jephson, has few imitations. Clara Reeve?s English Baron was the best, but even she in vain beckoned authors to cross th...Charles Robert Maturin Clara ReeveThe Old English BaronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday August 7th. [...] Read old English Baron.' Claire Clairmont Clara ReeveThe Old English Baron: A Gothic StoryPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Clare Benedict, 13 September 1907: 'Returning to this place [Lamb House, Rye] early in July after a long absence abroad [...] I found the March "Atlantic" ...Henry James Clare Benedict"Roderick Eaton's Children"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I hasten therefore to tell you without a moments delay what did mean to write (or have perhaps written) that the book ["Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas"] in its hum...Joseph Conrad Clarence AndrewsOld Morocco and the Forbidden AtlasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House
3/12/29
T. C. Elliott in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved
[...]
5. The subject of the...		Howard Smith Clarkson Wallis[An account of a ghost appearing at the Brighton M...Manuscript: NotebookUnknown
1900-1945'27th October 1928 (Saturday) ?La Rive d?Asie? (Claude Anet)' Gerald Moore Claude AnetLa Rive d?AsiePrint: Book
1850-1899'After the first week or so I became tired of reading aloud to George [husband, suffering from disorders of eyes], so we fortunately, obtained the services of a lady who,...Harriet Grote Claude Bernard Print: Book
1900-1945'17th March, Thursday. The books in my room are an interesting lot, and I will be able to resume reading. I have almost given it up since I came to France. Now, to b...Gerald Moore Claude Farr?reLes CivilisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Claude FleuryEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Claude Alexandre, Comte de BonnevalMemoirs of the Bashaw Count BonnevalPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845: 'Do you know the "Napoleon et Marie Louise" of M. de Meneval, the secretary of the emperor? The three lit...Elizabeth Barrett Claude Francois de MenevalNapoleon et Marie Louise: souvenirs historiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1842: 'Did you ever look at -- I dont say [italics]read[end italics] -- the "Sofa" of Crebillon fils. I sent f...Elizabeth Barrett Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon filsLe Sopha, Conte MoralPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rode down to Miyajino where we tiffined under a tea house shed by the edge of the river. Very delicious. Came back the other side of the stream, valley the last half hou...Gertrude Bell Claude Reignier ConderunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police &...Jane Austen Claudius BuchananChristian Researches in AsiaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Claudius ClaudianusQuae exstant operaPrint: Book
1800-1849'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy of Rabelais, in four volumes, imprinted by Philip Cr...John Mitchel Claudius Galen[unknown]Print: Book


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