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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
 
1850-1899'I have received the Paradox; I am thinking, I can make something of it, but must first be better.'Robert Louis Stevenson Denis DiderotThe Paradox of ActingPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Denton WelchIn Youth is PleasurePrint: Book
1800-1849‘D[erwent Coleridge] had sent me his sermon. It is very good.’Hartley Coleridge Derwent ColeridgeThe Circumstances of the Present Times, Considered...Print: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel] Harvey no doubt has the incident [of Philip, Lord Surrey's 'attempts [...] on the virtue' of Harvey's sister Mercy, c. Christmas 1574] in mind when in his copy...Gabriel Harvey Desiderius ErasmusParabolaePrint: Book
1500-1599'[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-read in September of 1577.'Gabriel Harvey Desiderius ErasmusParabolaePrint: Book
1500-1599'[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-read in September of 1577.'Gabriel Harvey Desiderius ErasmusParabolaePrint: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel] Harvey's favourite books were read and annotated a number of times [...] at the conclusion of [his Erasmus] is a large inscription which reads: "Relegi mense S...Gabriel Harvey Desiderius ErasmusWorksPrint: Book
1600-1699'so did not enlarge, but took leave and went down and sat in a low room reading Erasmus "de scribendis Epistolis", a very good book; especially, one letter of advice to a...Samuel Pepys Desiderius ErasmusDe conscribendis epistolisPrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Johnson to Dr Brocklesby] Tell Dr. Heberden, that in the coach I read "Ciceronianus" which I concluded as I entered Lichfield. My affection and understandin...Samuel Johnson Desiderius Erasmus CiceronianusPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 15 October 1763:] 'It is more from the testimony of others than from any recollection of my own, that I had formed the idea that...Elizabeth Carter Desiderius Erasmus'Dialogues'Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus Print: Book
1900-1945Monday 1 June 1937: 'I should make a note of Desmond [MacCarthy]'s queer burst of intimacy the other evening [...] last Tuesday, that is; [he] read us his L[eslie]. S[tep...Desmond MacCarthy Desmond MacCarthylecture on Sir Leslie StephenUnknown
1900-1945Thursday 9 January 1941: 'Desmond's book has come. Dipping I find it small beer. Too Irish, too confidential, too sloppy & depending upon the charm of the Irish voice. Ye...Virginia Woolf Desmond MacCarthyDramaPrint: Book
1900-1945'A master's debate at school set me thinking, and I decided for myself as far as I could at that age. At 16 I joined the Under Thirty movement where I heard a debate on P...Dick ShepherdunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'When I realised that war made people around me feel hatred for their kinsmen (by which I mean mankind). People say they wish for peace, but are quite prepared to put a m...Dick Sheppard[article in News Chronicle]Print: Newspaper
1500-1599
1600-1699		Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: 'Mie principal Autors for Warr, after much reading,...Gabriel Harvey Digges StratioticosunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I would like you to read a little book called "The Forerunner", by Merejkowski, published by Constable. It is about Leonardo da Vinci, and though there is a lot of bosh...Donald William Alers Hankey Dimitri MerejkowskiThe Forerunner, the romance of Leonardo da VinciPrint: Book
1850-1899'Agatha's Husband'Sarah Good Dinah CraikAgatha's HusbandPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.'George Gordon Lord Byron Diodorus SiculusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W...Frances Power Cobbe Diogenes Laertius Print: Book


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