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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
 
1900-1945'Thank you very much for your letter and the pamphlet in which I was very much interested.' Joseph Conrad David John Nicoll"Commonweal": The Greenwich MysteryPrint: Pamphlet, Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]: an additional printed page, printed by the Buchan Portable Press, titled "Letter from Princess Mary to Lord Buchan" has been inserted after p.196 and has th...David Steuart Erskine, Lord Buchan David Steuart Erskine, Lord BuchanAnonymous and fugitive essays of the Earl of Bucha...Print: Book
1700-1799'Saw at Book John's [In margin: A person who stands in the Market Place & sells books & of whom I have sometimes bought books] "New Memoirs of Literature for the Year 172...Joseph Hunter De La RocheNew Memoirs of LiteraturePrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Dean ChurchDante and Other EssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elw...John Mitchel Dean Swift[Captain Crichton's autobiography]Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:] 'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen part of the Preface, which was like himself. I have ju...Elizabeth Carter Deane SwiftEssay on the Life, &c. of Dr SwiftPrint: Book
1700-1799'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italics] she [italics]has been to me. The stories are very...Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Delarivier ManleySecret memoirs and manners of several persons of q...Print: Book
1700-1799'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that her father wrote the first two volumes: and in anothe...Samuel Johnson Delarivier ManleyAdventures of Rivella, or the History of the Autho...Print: Book
1800-1849'In a letter to Charles Boner (28 February 1851), Miss Mitford wrote that she had read L'Ecole des journalistes "in a Bruxelles edition with serveral feuilletons about it...Mary Russell Mitford Delphine de GirardinL'Ecole des journalistesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday July 28th. [...] Read 2 Books of Pope's Homer's Iliad. Translate Latin Speeches of Demosthenes.' ...Claire Clairmont Demosthenes speechesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico.' Claire Clairmont Demosthenes unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes in hand of George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading are: Oct 1902 (on a train in Italy); Sept 16 1905; May 12 1918 (at Welcombe). He notes the dates when ...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes Demosthenes With English notes by the Rev. Arthur ...Print: Book
1900-1945Copious notes and dates of reading, incl. Dec 1918, Sept 1921. Trevelyan transcribes the dates when Macaulay also read Demosthenes (1836, 1837). Several references to the...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes Orationes publicae; ed. by G.H. Heslop ... The Oly...Print: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes, incl.: "The Midas was the first oration of Demosthenes which Macaulay gave me, as a schoolboy, to read ...The marks on the outer margin are copied from ...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes in MidiamPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Denis ChavisArabian Tales; or, a Continuation of the Arabian N...Print: Book
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & go...George Crabbe Denis ChavisArabian Tales; or, A Continuation of The Arabian N...Print: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney Denis Diderottreatise on musicPrint: Book
1700-1799'But my dear, what a book! I am ashamed of it! I have read it right through and because I would not conceal from you the worse actions of my life, I send it to you, to sh...Frances Boscawen Denis DiderotLes bijous indiscretsPrint: Book
1850-1899'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.'George Eliot (pseud) Denis DiderotLe Nevue de RameauPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 June 1905: 'I live, I believe you know, with [Bernard] Dutton. He could only exist in the 19th century. He is a timid egoistic mani...Leonard Woolf Denis Diderot Print: Book


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