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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'In the day read part of "The Universal Magazine" for December, and in the evening read a pamphlet entitled "Primitive Christianity propounded or an Essay To revive the A...Thomas Turner Daniel DobelPrimitive Christianity propounded; or an essay to ...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his gran...William Gifford Daniel FenningAlgebraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of grammar neither myself nor my schoolfellows were taught aything, except to repeat by rote the brief grammatical exercises contained in the "Universal Spelling Book", ...Thomas Carter Daniel FenningThe Universal Spelling BookPrint: Book
1800-1849'a circumstance occurd which nearly stopd me from writing even for my own amusement borrowing a school book of a companion, having some entertaining things in it both i...John Clare Daniel FenningThe universal spelling-book: or, a new and easy gu...Print: Book
1700-1799'I took the 2nd Vol. & brought the 3d of Lyons &c. They are very entertaining books.'Joseph Hunter Daniel LyonsThe Environs of London, Being an Historical Accoun...Print: Book
1800-1849The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...Alfred Tennyson Daniel O'ConnellHistory of IrelandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think "Ireland and its Leaders" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you though you call yourself solitary live much more in...Sydney Smith Daniel Owen-Madden [published anon.]Ireland and its Rulers Since 1829Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.George Eliot [pseud.] Daniel RockHierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the MassPrint: Book
1850-1899'wrote out the Ecclesiastical Vestments from Rock'.George Eliot [pseud.] Daniel Rock Hierurgia Or The Holy Sacrifice Of The MassPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Daniel Sennert[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Mark L.] Reed reports that W[ordsworth] copied quotations from Sennertus into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31 ... c.Feb.1801. They appear to have been copied from C[oleridge]'s...William Wordsworth Daniel SennertusunknownUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Daniel WaterlandThe Importance of the Doctrine of the Holy TrinityPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Daniel WaterlandA Vindication of Christ's DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799I find by the news papers this morning that dr wild and you are deputed by the clergy assembled at the late visitation at Beaconsfield to wait upon my lord Nottingham [to...Edward Lincoln Daniel (Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham) FinchThe Answer of the Earl of Nottingham to Mr WhistonPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dante Alighieri[Divina Commedia]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "-The common - pretty - timid - mistletoe bought kind of kiss was not what Dante meant. Rossetti has thoroughly understood the passage througho...John Ruskin Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H. 28 - 23/12/1855 - "You have Carey's Dante I suppose - else Matilda's quotation from the Psalms might be useless to you. Carey is on the whole the best - and ver...John Ruskin Dante Alighieri Print: Book
1850-1899"Why do you say that I don't like Dante? I read him through with the help of your crib & was profoundly impressed."Leslie Stephen Dante Alighieri Print: Book
1850-1899'It occurred to me lately to read Dante again &, as I required a crib very constantly I took yours & by its help went through the whole. It suggested to me innumerable sp...Leslie Stephen Dante AlighieriunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Dante AlighieriDivina CommediaPrint: Book


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