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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'When not in the curiosity shops, or examining and washing her [ceramic] purchases in the hotel, Lady Charlotte read a great deal. After revelling "in that pleasant life ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Life of MacaulayPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand] and L...The Rev. Sydney Smith Mary BerryLife of Madame du DeffandManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Mr Cambridge' to Mary Berry: 'I was about to take up my pen to you to express the pleasure and satisfaction we have just experienced in the perusal of your "Life of Mada...Mr Cambridge Mary BerryLife of Madame du DeffandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Hope' to Mary Berry: 'Your preface [to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand] I devoured the moment I got it. I have since not [italics]despatched[end ital...Mr Hope Mary BerryLife of Madame du DeffandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; a Life of Major Geshp...Mountstuart Elphinstone unknownLife of Major GeshpillPrint: Book
1850-189929 March 1880: 'I had one of my wakeful nights and read a great deal of the Life of Marguerite de Valois, Philip's Queen.'Lady Charlotte Schreiber Life of Marguerite de ValoisPrint: Book
1800-1849The Hon. James Abercrombie to Mary Berry, 5 January 1820: 'I am reading Coxe's "Life of Marlborough;" the subject, in spite of the dulness and want of capacity in the wri...The Hon. James Abercrombie CoxeLife of MarlboroughPrint: Book
1850-1899" ... it was reading a Life of Mazzini, with its description of how he founded the 'Young Italy' Society, in which each member was pledged to work for the liberation of t...Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Life of MazziniPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 8 December 1801: 'A dullish, rainyish morning ... I read Bruce's Lochleven and Life.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownLife of Michael BrucePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure...George Gordon Lord Byron Henri BeyleLife of MozartPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lines by Mrs Siddons Say what's the brightest wreath of fame, ... >From Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons Dec 1834'Bowly groupThomas CampbellLife of Mrs SiddonsUnknown
1800-1849'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, a...Sarah Harriet Burney Thomas CampbellLife of Mrs SiddonsPrint: Book
1800-1849Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, to Elizabeth Barrett, c.4 October 1830: 'For the last three hours [Arabella, reader's sister] has done nothing but talk in the most nonsensi...Henrietta Moulton-Barrett unknownLife of NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 28 June 1827: 'Visited on invitation a fine old little commodore Trunnion who, in reading a part of Napoleon's history with which he had himself been interes...anon Walter ScottLife of NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Say, too, that I received his Life of Napoleon, and have read it this winter - in the evening and at night - with attentino from beginning to end. To me it was full of ...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Walter ScottLife of NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page to page, with unwearied interest and entertainment. I...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottLife of Napoleon BuonapartePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more difficult than his verse or my head is much thicker than...Jane Baillie Welsh Germaine de StaelLife of Necker [Jacques?]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes of Mrs Grant's American Lady, which Southey lent to ...Dorothy Wordsworth Robert SoutheyLife of NelsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Statement about juvenile offender: "attended the Independent Sunday-school three years, also the national school three years (same time). Learned to read and write. Ca...J.S. Life of NelsonPrint: Book
1850-1899"Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S...Robert Blatchford Robert SoutheyLife of NelsonPrint: Book


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