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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'Read Middletons Cicero'Mary Shelley Conyers MiddletonHistory of the Life of marcus Tullius CiceroPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Copious MS notes, some correcting translation, others commenting on world affairs or noting events in Trevelyan's own life. MS dates of reading up to 1921 and list of 8 m...George Otto Trevelyan Conyers MiddletonThe life and letters of Marcus Tullius CiceroPrint: Book
1900-1945'Unconditional surrender. I don't think America will allow us to do anything different. I read the other day where Cordell Hull said there would be no peace talks, it wou...Cordell HullunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'His books, "On Two Fronts" and "Letters of a Prisoner", described those early experiences.'Vera Brittain Corder CatchpoolOn Two Fronts: Letters of a Prisoner.Print: Book
1850-1899'Look at the 19th Century for October. It has an article in by me which the Editor has called “Stray Thoughts of an India Girl” – I called it Social India but found that...Cornelia Sorabji'Stray Thoughts of an Indian GirlManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'By the way the Mother gave him some of Miss Sorabji to read and he finds it as I did, very good – “splendid” he said in parts and is inclined to prophesy a great success...Rudyard Kipling Cornelia SorabjiunknownUnknown
1850-1899[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'George Eliot [pseud] Cornelis Petrus TieleOutlines of the History of ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843: 'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their reprint to acknowledge that kindness [...] Since then...Elizabeth Barrett Cornelius MathewsMotley BookPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843: 'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their reprint to acknowledge that kindness [...] Since then...Elizabeth Barrett Cornelius MathewsBehemoth, a Legend of the MoundbuildersPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Many MS notes, some of which are transcribed from those of Lord Macaulay in another edition: "Macaulay's notes and marginal lines (on the outside margins) are transferred...George Otto Trevelyan Cornelius TacitusOpera omniaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.George Eliot [pseud.] Cornewall LewisAstronomy of the AncientsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Tom Sawyer’s ingenious antics are at present my principal book and bible. I have also found a red 6/- novel called “Impertinent Reflections”, which might fill up any odd...Edmund Blunden Cosmo Hamilton Impertinent ReflectionsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cotton MatherMagnalia Christi AmericanaPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Count Beugnot's Memoirs I have been rea...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Count BeugnotMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823: 'I return the C[ount] D'O[rsay]'s journal which is a very extraordinary production ... I know or knew personally most of t...George Gordon Lord Byron Count D'OrsayJournalManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Morning Post [...] I enclose from it this jolly letter ...Edward Morgan Forster Count Ernst von Reventlow'A Year of Naval Warfare'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the proposal of that classical cuckold Perticari ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Count Giulio PerticariDell'amor patrio di DantePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, ...George Gordon Lord Byron Count Vittorio Alfieri[marginalia]Manuscript: Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I have just been reading the two last [sixth and seventh] volumes of Mme de Remusat, just out -- her corresponden...Henry James Countess Claire-Elisabeth de RemusatCorrespondence (vols 6 and 7)Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the "few lines" of your note with all due attention ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Countess Teresa Guiccioli[letter]Manuscript: Letter


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