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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
 
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury, and his household's change of residence:] ...Catherine Talbot Pierre de MarivauxLe Spectateur FrancoisPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1847: 'At Pisa, Robert read to me while I was ill [following miscarriage], & partly by being read to & p...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAlexandre DumasLe SperonarePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading for the second [time] "The System of Nature", by Holbach and Diderot, if every one would read it, they would soon discover, by reasoning the most correct & ...Anna Doyle Wheeler Baron Paul Henrich Dietrich d'HolbachLe Systeme de la naturePrint: Book
1700-1799[Betsey Wynne]'Our reading today was of Moliere, Mr de Regis read "Le Tartufe" which is his finest piece'. [Eugenia comments the next day, 'Le vilain homme que ced Tartuf... Moliere [pseud.]Le TartuffePrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1800-1849'Thursday April 9th [...] Read [...] Le Tartuffe of Moliere'.Claire Clairmont MoliereLe TartuffePrint: Book
1900-1945'25th February 1929 (Monday). Still at home, but hope to return to work tomorrow. A quiet day, reading the papers, and writing a little. The ?Temps? has an editoria...Gerald Moore Le TempsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Texts from which passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942-1943) include Marcel Proust, Le Temps Retrouve.Edward Morgan Forster Marcel ProustLe Temps RetrouvePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read Bragelonne'.Robert Louis Stevenson Alexandre DumasLe Vicomte de BragelonnePrint: Book
1800-1849'I translate in the evening and read le vieux de la Montagne'Mary Godwin Jean Baptiste Claude Izouard (Delisle de Sales)Le Vieux de la montagne, histoire orientale, tradu...Print: Book
1800-1849'read le vieux de la montagne and write'Mary Godwin Jean Baptiste Claude Izouard (Delisle de Sales)Le Vieux de la montagne, histoire orientale, tradu...Print: Book
1800-1849'finish the old man of the mountains - translate & read one book of the conjuration de Rienzi'.Mary Godwin Jean Baptiste Claude Izouard (Delisle de Sales)Le Vieux de la montagne, histoire orientale, tradu...Print: Book
1900-1945'Friday 17th December. French Class again tonight. I don?t know whether they liked me last time. Took Mother?s class. Only 3 present. Rather jolly. I think I cou...Gerald Moore Eugene LabicheLe Voyage de M. P?rrichonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Coming home I purchased The Australasian & the Leader. I bought "the Leader" because it contained the commencement of Mr Yellow Plush's experiences in Australia. I do no...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]LeaderPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Leader this evening was published an autobiography of John Wallace & his portrait was given away with each copy of the paper. The likeness was a very good one & I...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]LeaderPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Telo gave me "The Leader" with the Prison letters article. There was'ent much in it excepting the two guineas it gave the Author an opportunity of earning. There was how...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]LeaderPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'from an accidental copy of the Leader I learn that a fourth edition [of Mary Barton] is coming out'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Leader, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Here I am beside a French canal, watching the day, and remembering with an ache what Glostershire is in such a season as September, and with whom I usually spent the...Ivor Bertie Gurney leading article (unsigned) in Times Literary Suppl...Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Yes, I have skimmed through the leaflets, and put them in a letter file. I haven't read anything else except newspapers.' leafletsPrint: Advertisement
1700-1799'. . . this Creature, whose nick Name here is Mrs. MacDevil will not, it seems, be slighted with impunity, & she put that mortifying paragraph into the Morning Post about...Frances Burney Learned Lass, or the Poor Scholar's Garland! A Son...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding J HarpoleLeaves from a Surgeon's Case BookPrint: Book


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