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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
1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Samuel JohnsonLettersUnknown
1700-1799'[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu and Anna Seward for instance, read both.'Anna Seward Mary Wortley MontaguLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu and Anna Seward for instance, read both.'Elizabeth Montagu Mary Wortley MontaguLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799Burney's reading group reading two books - 'the last voyage of Captain Cook and the letters of Madame de Sevigne. She makes little progress with Cook because of her fasci...Frances Burney Marie de SevignelettersPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		"[Robert] Hooke had been able to read letters in what would otherwise be reckoned darkness, thanks to one of his artificial organs contrived from 'an ordinary double Conv...Robert Hooke lettersUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters, on James's feelings regarding publication of letters: "He opposed truncation. 'One has the vague sense of omission...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonLettersPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] I sat down to read [in the study] till our room shou...Henry James Lady Mary Wortley MontaguLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion given of the French manner tho' written in the middle re...Samuel Richardson Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1850-1899In postscript to his letter of 3 July 1897 to Ellen Temple Hunter, Henry James tells anecdote about 'yesterday afternoon', in which, after having been 'reading the deligh...Henry James Edward FitzgeraldLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 10 October 1912: 'I have received within a day or two dear old George Meredith's "Letters"; and, though I haven't been able yet very much...Henry James George MeredithLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaining "Letters" of Mr. Gray together with M. Sismondi's...Thomas Carter GrayLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Trut...Thomas Carter Mary Wortley, Lady MontaguLettersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Over the New Year [1922] [...] [Charlotte Mew] went down to Cambridge and, as a particular treat, Sydney [Cockerell, Mew's friend, and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum...Charlotte Mew BrontelettersManuscript: Letter
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 5 October 1799: 'Mentioning [...] [Madame de Coigny] puts me in mind of a book which I am now [italics]devouring[end italics] with delight, t...Mary Berry Madame de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to a friend, from Nice, March 1803: 'I am reading over for the fiftieth time, I believe, the letters of Madame de Sevigne. They always improve on me, and are...Mary Berry Madame De SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 19 November 1807: 'After dinner read aloud some of Madame du Deffand's letters.'Mary Berry Madame du DeffandLettersUnknown
Mary Berry, Journal, 30 June 1808: 'In the evening I read "Barillon's Letters" in Mr. Fox's Appendix.'Mary Berry BarillonLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849John Playfair to Mary Berry, 22 September 1810, in response to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand, received three days previously: 'The preface is excellent,...John Playfair Madame du DeffandLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Roscoe' to Mary Berry: 'I may almost be said to have past the last ten or twelve days in your society; for having been confined to the house by indisposition, my chie...Mr Roscoe Madame du DeffandLettersPrint: Book


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