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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
 
1700-1799'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickle".'Dr Delany EusebiusLife of Constantine the GreatPrint: Book
1800-1849James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of 1826, a friend made me a present of an old edition o...James Dawson Burn Chevalier RamsayLife of CyrusPrint: Book
1850-1899George Grote to John Stuart Mill (October 1857): 'I send you Thomas's book on the provincial administration of La Bourgogne [...] I also send another book, which I g...George Grote Life of DaunouPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 6 November 1850: 'I have just finished reading the "Life of Dr Arnold", but now when I wish -- in accordance with your request -- to exp...Charlotte Bronte Arthur Penrhyn StanleyLife of Dr ArnoldPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 October 1916: 'I return the MS which I thought amazingly good. It made me laugh until I cried twice, once at "where he remained fo...Leonard Woolf Lytton StracheyLife of Dr ArnoldManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 6 November 1850:

'I have just finished reading the Life of Dr Arnold [...] This is not a character to be dismissed with a...		Charlotte Brontë Arthur Penrhyn StanleyLife of Dr ArnoldPrint: Book
1800-1849[Sunday 21 November 1841]. [...] Read Knight's Life of Colet. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Samuel KnightLife of Dr John ColetPrint: Book
1700-1799Last night sleep departed, I read almost all night Nelsons life of Bp Bull James ClreJames Clegg Robert NelsonLife of Dr. George BullPrint: Book
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1900-1945		"A. Maude Royden, whilst at Lady Margaret Hall, became immersed in Tractarianism, and she read her way through the five volumes of the life of Edward Bouverie Pusey."A. Maude Royden life of Edward Bouverie PuseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Life of Clarendon'Mary Shelley Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of ClarendonLife of Edward Earl of Clarendon . . . written by ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished Jortin's "Life of Erasmus"....'Thomas Green John JortinLife of ErasmusPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:] 'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present is a very pretty treatise, "sur la gaiete," which th...Catherine Talbot John JortinLife of ErasmusPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 21 April 1802: I went to bed after dinner, could not sleep, went to bed again. Read Ferguson's life and a poem or two --...Dorothy Wordsworth Adam FergusonLife of FergusonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; but Mallet's mind was not comprehensive enough to embr...James Boswell David MalletLife of Francis Bacon, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; but Mallet's mind was not comprehensive enough to embr...William Warburton David MalletLife of Francis Bacon, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde Thomas CarlyleLife of Frederick the GreatPrint: Book
1800-1849'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".'Thomas Carter [unknown]Life of General WashingtonPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol....Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinLife of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poetPrint: Book
1800-1849'read talk and nurse - S reads the life of Chauser'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinLife of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poet, i...Print: Book
1800-1849'S finishes the life of Chauser'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinLife of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poet, i...Print: Book


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