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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'To my surprise (as I disliked the ''Life of Jefferies'' so much) I like his ''Wild Life in a Southern County'' very much. The descriptions of country and birds are excel...Emma Darwin John Richard JefferiesLife in a Southern CountyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just read Miss Martineau's "Sick Room". I cannot understand it. It is so sublime, and mystical that I frequently cannot guess at her meaning; all that I can find ...Sydney Smith Harriet MartineauLife in the Sick RoomPrint: Book
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1850-1899		From letter of Elizabeth B. Ker, niece of Harriet Martineau: 'I regret infinitely that she desired all her letters to be destroyed. I had so large a boxful that it took ...Elizabeth B. Ker Harriet MartineauLife in the SickroomPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "Kelly"s book on Victoria; it is very interesting tho rather coarse' Albert Battiscombe William KellyLife in Victoria, or, Victoria in 1853 and Victori...Print: Book
1900-1945'You don't mind if I suggest that you should take a glance at Curle's short stories "Life is a Dream"-- not all in the vol. but three of them. Read first "Blanca Palillos...Joseph Conrad Richard CurleLife is a DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday March 16th. [...] Read the Life of Adam Smith [makes notes on this] [...] In Smith's Treatise concerning the Imitative Arts I find the following: "The Minuet,...Claire Clairmont Dugald StewartLife of Adam SmithPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this] -- [...] 'Monday April 10th....Claire Clairmont Tacitus Life of AgricolaPrint: Book
1700-1799'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Joseph Warton's "Essay on Pope"; but said, he supposed...Samuel Johnson Owen RuffheadLife of Alexander PopePrint: Book
1900-1945'.....I've been ill with heart trouble - why I can't imagine, as it has always been quite strong so Sachie lent me his country house for a fortnight. I sat on the veranda...Edith Sitwell Alexander PopeLife of Alexander the GreatPrint: Book
1800-1849'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'.James Hogg Thomas McCrieLife of Andrew Melville, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait. I did not like his book. I thought it too personal, too sacred for publication, bu...Margaret Oliphant R.T. DavisonLife of Archibald Campbell TaitPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 14 November 1807: 'Miss Trimmer [former governess and companion] went out of town yesterday morning and I...Georgiana, Countess Dowager Spencer and Lady Harriet Cavendish ForbesLife of BeattiePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William brought his Mattress out, and lay down on the floor. ...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownLife of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 17 February 1825: 'I feel already the hundred comforts of the [Mardi Gras] carnival being...Harriet Countess Granville SegurLife of BuonapartePrint: Book
1800-1849Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'Who is Mr. Prior? I have read his "Life of Burke" with the greatest satisfaction [...] There are very few thin...Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool PriorLife of BurkeUnknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 13 November 1803: 'I have been reading M'Cormick's [sic] Life of Burke, a violent and abusive book, but...Lady Harriet Cavendish McCormickLife of BurkePrint: 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'[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a charm on my benumbed imagination. Never have I been mo...Elizabeth Hamilton James CurrieLife of BurnsPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 29 May 1828: 'I have amused myself to-day with reading Lockhart's Life of Burns which is very well written -- in fact an admirable thing. He has judicious[ly...Walter Scott LockhartLife of BurnsPrint: Book
1800-1849Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading (probably some time after 1830) of Thomas Moore's "Life of Byron", 'which dismayed her.'Felicia Hemans Thomas MooreLife of ByronPrint: Book


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