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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
 
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one in the papers -- as secondary to Burdett and Canning....George Gordon Lord Byron Douglas Kinnairdletter (ie article?)Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'May brought back from the Library Home of the Blizzard.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Douglas MawsonThe Home of the BlizzardPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Finished Blizzard Land.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Douglas MawsonThe Home of the BlizzardPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Started to read "Disgrace Abounding" by Douglas Reed. He has got a bee in his bonnet about the Jews. Very insidious because when he gives chapter and verse one immediate...Douglas ReedDisgrace AboundingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading Insanity Fair by Douglas Reed. He was all through the last War. Then had a job in Germany and knew that from the moment the Nazis were in we should have to fi...Vere Hodgson Douglas ReedInsanity FairPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read. Wounds dressed. Read "The Japs at Home".'John Frederick William Dunn Douglas SladenThe Japs at HomePrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 2 March 1826: 'Slept indifferently and dreamd of Napoleon's last moments and last illness of which I was reading a medical account last night by Dr. Arnott...Walter Scott Dr ArnottAn Account of the Last Illness, Decease, etc. of N...Print: Book
1800-1849I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse. It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, must be, - seeking only to convince the human reason...Elizabeth Barrett Dr CardDiscoursePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on Bible studies in early adulthood: 'I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely; both by daily reading of chapters [...] and by getting hold of all ...Harriet Martineau Dr CarpenterNotes and Observations on the Gospel HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849This is emphatic enough.- I need not speak of Dr Chalmers' boisterous treatise upon the causes & cure of pauperism in the last Edinr review. His reasoning (so they call ...Thomas Carlyle Dr ChalmersTitle unknownPrint: Serial / periodical
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'England'; [text] 'The late excellent Dr Clark thus apostrophizes his/ native country in the last volume of his travel...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Dr Clark[unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately': 'Alfieri's "L...Fanny Kemble Dr CombePrinciples of PhysiologyPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 3 January 1840: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read Wilberforce, and looked over Dr. Crowther's book.'Harriet Martineau Dr CrowtherunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'"I well remember the acute sorrow with which, by my own fire-side, I first perused Dr. Currie's Narrative, and some of the letters, particularly of those composed in the...William Wordsworth Dr CurrieLife of BurnsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'By the middle of March 1831, I had completed the first volume, amounting to above f...Charles Manby Smith Dr D[manuscript of his book]Manuscript: manuscript of book
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson: 'On Monday the 10th [October, 1892], Miss Marryat, daughter of the celebrated novelist, secured for me a copy of the Times, wherein I ...John Tyndall Dr Dabbsaccount of death of Alfred TennysonPrint: Newspaper
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, "A Hymne to our Creator" by Dr Dillingham. Elizabeth Lyttelton Dr DillinghamA Hymne to our CreatorUnknown
1700-1799'The King then asked him what he thought of Dr. Hill. Johnson answered, he was an ingenious man, but had no veracity; and immediately mentioned, as an instance of it, an ...Samuel Johnson Dr Hill[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 4, I drank tea with Johnson at Dr. Taylor's, where he had dined. He entertained us with an account of a tragedy written by a Dr. Kennedy (not the Lisb...Mr Fitzherbert Dr Kennedy[a tragedy]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were...Mary Russell Mitford Dr Kittoholy versesPrint: Book


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