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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'I have just read the "Liber Amoris" of (as we are told) Mr Hazlet: it is strange that any Man could write & marvelous that he could publish such History of his own Weakn...George Crabbe William HazlittLiber Amoris, or the New PygmalionPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: Charles Collins has been so busy with his Lent verses that I see little of him — he is my monit...Charles Collins Johannes SecundusLiber Basiorum (Book of Kisses)Print: Book
1450-1499Susan Schibanoff, "Taking the Gold out of Egypt: The Art of Reading as a Woman": "In 1473, Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, came across a French version of the Liber Philo...Anthony Woodville Earl Rivers Liber Philosophorum Moralium AntiquorumUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12-15 November 1793: 'I have been reading Courtney Melmoths Liberal Opinions to-day. I know not if you have ever read the boo...Robert Southey Courtney Melmoth [pseud.]Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providenc...Print: Book
1800-1849'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfa...Thomas Carter James ThomsonLiberty, a PoemPrint: Book
1850-1899While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by books read at a well-stocked bookstall which she passed ...Hannah Mitchell library booksPrint: Book
1800-1849'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six volumes. I wanted something to read. I had no one to ...John B. Gough Wiley and Putnam (eds)Library of Choice ReadingPrint: Book
1800-1849[illustration of a Deer, followed by prose on hunting ascribed to] 'Library of Entertaining Knowledge' [part of album with begining of transcript missing].E.E.R. Library of Entertaining KnowledgeUnknown
1700-1799'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer your very obliging letter till I had read the Parish re...Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland George CrabbeLibrary, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant o...Walter Scott George CrabbeLibrary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dost not remember this compliment, but I remember the i...Richard Shackleton George CrabbeLibrary, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'We read little; my companion has never learnt letters, and I, less fortunate in that respect, having only been able to discover one book in the house, a Spanish "L...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a]Libro de Misa [prayer book/liturgy/missal]Print: Book
1900-1945I have just done a review of a charming book on the Libyan desert by a man called Bagnold who first proved that one can motor up sand dunes. Did you know the Libyan...Freya Stark Ralph A. BagnoldLibyan Sands: Travel in a Dead WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'This landlord was new to the game and took me to see how he was studying to be master of it. He was busy reading three volumes- "Licensed Houses and Their Management".... unknownLicensed houses and their managementPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lichtenstein'Sarah Good Wilhelm HauffLichtensteinPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' ...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Thomas HuxleyLifePrint: Unknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me much pleasure; the autobiography with which it commence...Charlotte Bronte Robert SoutheyLifePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "I have been reading Macaulay's Life with extreme interest and entertainment, and admiration of the intellectual robustne...Henry James Thomas Babington MacaulayLifePrint: Book
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 AlfieriLifePrint: 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 PaltockLife and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Ma...Print: Book


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