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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'Letters bring Lady M. W. M[ontagu] into my head, which I now do not confess in public ever to have read, for they are deemed so naughty by all the world, that one must k...Mr Sharpe Mary Wortley MontaguLetters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John PetvinLetters Concerning MindPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to Thomas Babington Macaulay, 15 October 1834: 'Have they sent you among your books "Victor Jaquemont's Letters?" they are perfectly original [...] I never kne...Mary Berry Victor JaquemontLetters describing a journey in IndiaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson notes John Horseman's annotation (including literary quotations and cross-references) of his copy of Maria Edgeworth, Letters for Literary Ladies (1799).John Horseman Maria EdgeworthLetters for Literary LadiesPrint: 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 Madame du NoyerLetters from a Lady at Paris to a Lady at AvignonPrint: Book
1900-1945'There is no real objection to marrying a woman with a fortune but there is to marrying a fortune with a woman.'William Thomas George Horace LorimerLetters from a Self Made Merchant to His SonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Parcels from home and Bess. Read "Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son" by George Horace Lorimer.'William Thomas George Horace LorimerLetters from a Self Made Merchant to His SonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. F...Donald William Alers Hankey Pearl Mary Theresa CraigieLetters from a Silent StudyPrint: Book
1800-1849'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly Magazine", among the very many interesting articles ...Thomas Carter Thomas CampbellLetters from AlgiersPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Here I am, sitting on my bed, half-reading Carlyle, little soaking through to my dull mind, when I become aware that a boxing match is being arranged … I am not alto...Ivor Bertie Gurney Rupert BrookeLetters from AmericaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 29 January 1796, 'We remained five days at Coruña — the only place where I met with the society I wished. Jardine is Consu...Robert Southey Alexander JardineLetters from Barbary, France, Spain, Portugal &c. Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am at present reading a book which you would enjoy, "The letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple.... They lived in Cromwell's time, and the letters are ...Clive Staples Lewis Dorothy OsborneLetters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William TemplePrint: 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 ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Southey [anon.]Letters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Esprie...Print: 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 Robert SoutheyLetters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Esprie...
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'Of Citoyenne Rolands appeal I have read the first only. at present the politics of France puzzle me...Robert Southey Helen Maria WilliamsLetters from FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I wonder what a book called "Letters from Hell" published at 1/- by Macmillan would be like?' (2) 'I have written up for "Letters from Hell" and it ought to be her...Clive Staples Lewis Valdemar Adolph ThistedLetters from HellPrint: Book
1800-1849'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is not candid. If a man chuses to say: I will live up t...Sydney Smith Morris BirkbeckLetters from IllinoisPrint: Book
1700-1799'I read (said he [Johnson],) Sharpe's letters on Italy over again, when I was at Bath. There is a great deal of matter in them.'Samuel Johnson Samuel SharpLetters from Italy, describing the Customs and Man...Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916: 'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing missing soldiers] and do the motherly to Tommies as you ...Frank Vicary Goldsworthy Lowes DickinsonLetters from John ChinamanPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Hulses have been reading Mrs Delany's Letters, & never were so interested, they say, nor even [underlined] affected [end underlining] in some parts of it, by any boo...General Sir Samuel Hulse and his wifeMary DelanyLetters from Mrs Delany... to Mrs frances Hamilton...Print: Book


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