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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'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'George Eliot [pseud] Edmund BurkeReflections on the Revolution in FrancePrint: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 8 November 1790: 'In this country the stock of the National Assembly is fallen down to bankruptcy [...] the fatal blow has been at last give...Horace Walpole Edmund BurkeReflections on the Revolution in FrancePrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849[transcibed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'What is Majesty without its externals?-- / by Burke'Lady Caroline Lamb Edmund Burke[unknown]Unknown
1700-1799'Read Burke's "Letters on a Regicide Peace"...'Thomas Green Edmund BurkeThoughts on the prospect of a regicide peacePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished a cursory perusal of Burke on the "Sublime and Beautiful"...'Thomas Green Edmund BurkeA philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ide...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read Burke's "Vindication of Natural Society". Except in parts (as in the opening and ending) I cannot think that this piece has much of Bolingbroke's style and manner....Thomas Green Edmund BurkeVindication of Natural SocietyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Burke's Disquisition prefixed to his "Sublime and Beautiful"...'Thomas Green Edmund BurkeA philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ide...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As ...Sydney Smith Edmund Burke[unknown]Print: 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]...Mary Godwin Edmund BurkeA Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter...
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'Virginia Woolf Edmund BurkeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely reading Stephen [Spender]'s autobiography [published Spri...Virginia Woolf Edmund BurkeunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old thin...Samuel Johnson Edmund BurkePhilosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas...Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)Edmund Burke Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Burke's "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America", being mentioned, Johnson censured the composition much, and he ridiculed the definition of a ...Samuel Johnson Edmund BurkeLetter To The Sheriffs Of Bristol Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Though it is probably the mightiest mind ever engaged in our politics, & tho there seems to have been great elevation & principle in is views, I am struck with the very ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Edmund BurkeunknownPrint: Unknown
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 Edmund Burke [anon.]A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter...Print: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the inscribed copy. [...]. On the 28th May I finished correcting the last pages of "Rescue" [...]. The same evening I picked up "Sri Ram" as I limped to ...Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerSiri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life Print: Book
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before for the book ["Siri Ram"] which I read directly it reached my hands.'Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerSiri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life Print: Book
1900-1945'Ever so many thanks for copy of "[The] Sepoy". Everything you write is a matter of most sympathetic interest to me; and in the case of this book I must say I enjoyed th...Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerThe SepoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Abdication" arrived four of five days ago. How short the book is and how much you have managed to put into it. As you may imagine I read it at once.' Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerAbdicationPrint: Book


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