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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'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: amo...John Stuart Mill Thomas McCrieLife of John KnoxPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am nearly done with McCrie's Knox.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas McCrieLife of John KnoxPrint: 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 John Knox, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 3 June 1802, 'We have been reading the Life and some of the writings of poor Logan since dinner.'William and Dorothy Wordsworth unknownLife of John LoganPrint: Book
1700-1799'There is, in the British Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artful...Dr Warburton John TolandLife of John MiltonPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your quondam Friend's, Dr. Symmonds' life of Milton, on some future occasion I will tell you what I think of it.'William Wordsworth SymmondsLife of John Milton, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Jack Common recalled that his mother brought him a secondhand and severely abridged "Life of Johnson" for 1d., and he had to read it several times before he even partial...Jack Common James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		H. J. Jackson discusses Leigh Hunt's responsive annotations, including personal reminiscences and observations, as well as critical remarks, to his copy of James Boswell'...James Leigh Hunt James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you Tom Davis's Life of David Garrick? I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, and should like to peruse the life of his (Johnson's) contemporary. Mrs Hannah... BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849' ... he [ie George III] paid attention when books were read to him, and asked for excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Johnson" ...'King George III James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was about noon, and the officers had all gone home to their dinners, when, as I sat on my stool munching my loaf and reading Boswell's "Life of Dr Johnson", I heard a...James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Pursued Boswell's "life of Johnson"....'Thomas Green James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Just now I am reading nightly in bed Boswell?s "Life of Johnson". I suppose you know it by heart. Without doubt it is the most agreeable & diverting thing in non-imagi...Arnold Bennett James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'In the following lines, by that pious and most excellent of men, Dr Johnson, we are consoled with the assurance...James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed. By Mr Burrow on "a Second Hand Book" which threw a...Alfred Rawlings James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed. By Mr Burrow on "a Second Hand Book" which threw a...Ernest E. Unwin James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed. By Mr Burrow on "a Second Hand Book" which threw a...Reginald Robson James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed. By Mr Burrow on "a Second Hand Book" which threw a...Charles Evans James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed. By Mr Burrow on "a Second Hand Book" which threw a...Henry Marriage Wallis James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book


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