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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
 
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819: 'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a sleepless night. Read some of Hume's Essay on the A...George Grote David HumeEssay on the Academical PhilosophyPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763: 'Our after-supper book is Hume -- his English history however; but I hear it with infinite caution.'Catherine Talbot and familyDavid HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'Timothy Dwight an American publishd an heroic poem on the Conquest of Canaan in 1785. I had hear...Robert Southey David HumphreysversesManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'I hope you do not estimate my mind by Davie Laing's canting and insolent review or by your friend Goldie's lies [Hogg then complains at Boyd's unwillingness to publish "...James Hogg David Laing[review of new edition of 'the Mountain Bard' - Ed...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I cannot think one thing and say another to a friend or indeed to any man and it was owing to a review written by you in the Edin. Quarterly of The Mountain Bard that hi...James Hogg David Laing[review in 'Edinburgh Monthly Review' of Hogg's 'T...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Bought... sugar at Cossen's, 2 vols of Dr Clark's exposition of the 4 Evengellists (cost 10s), sermons by Dr Stanhope. Cost 5s. Mother paid half of that... Read Philip o...Gertrude Savile David LewisPhilip of Macedon: A Tragedy. As it is acted at thPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent David Livingstone[Travels: perhaps, 'Missionary Travels And Researc...Print: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "David Copperfield", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Lorna...questionaire respondent David Livingstone[Travels, probably 'Missionary Travels And Researc...Print: Book
1600-1699'After dinner by coach as far as the Temple and there saw a new book in Folio of all that suffered for the King in the late times - which I will buy; it seems well writ.'Samuel Pepys David LloydMemories of the lives ... of those noble ... perso...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
    C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secret...		Francis E. Pollard David Lloyd GeorgeWar Memoirs of David Lloyd GeorgePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque'Mary Shelley David Lyndsay [pseud.]Dramas of theAncient WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge David Lyndsay [pseud]Dramas of the Ancient WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; but Mallet's mind was not comprehensive enough to embr...James Boswell David MalletLife of Francis Bacon, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; but Mallet's mind was not comprehensive enough to embr...William Warburton David MalletLife of Francis Bacon, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Lord Hailes had sent him a present of a curious little printed poem, on repairing the University of Aberdeen, by David [italics] Malloch [end italics], which he thought ...Samuel Johnson David Mallet[a poem about Aberdeen]Print: Unknown
1700-1799 'You did not tell me before, that you had read "the Hermit" and "Alfrida". There are charming Things in both. I read them when they first came out, having a great opinio...Samuel Richardson David MallettAmyntor and Theodora, or, The HermitPrint: Book
1700-1799'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them when they first came out, having a great opinion of...Lady Bradshaigh David MallettAmyntor and Theodora, or, The HermitPrint: Book
1700-1799'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life" by Mr Mallet perhaps you have seen. He is not near so good a Man, I fear, as...Samuel Richardson David Mallett[Life of Bacon]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.George Eliot [pseud.] David Masson[essay on the Life of Chatterton]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.George Eliot [pseud] David Masson'The Three Devils'Print: Unknown, probably inbook publ. 1856


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