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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
 
1900-1945'Friday, 2nd April, Walking over the Walton Hall Housing Estate. The spread of the city goes on apace. I find myself hoping that someday the grass will grow again ov...Gerald Moore Robert SoutheyLife of NelsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'For relief I have had a life of Orage ? by someone who evidently had a great admiration for him, but only knew him personally during the last phase ? the ?New English We...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLife of OragePrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Goldsmith's 'Life of Parnell' is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor materials; for nobody can write the life of a man but t...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithLife of Parnell Print: Book
1800-1849'Tell David Fergusson that I am charmed with his manuscript [a handwritten copy of Carlyle's "Life of Pascal"]; it is the prettiest [that] ever was written for the Encycl...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleLife of PascalManuscript: Sheet, Handwritten copy of Carlyle's own text
1800-1849'Friday Jany. 21st. Begin Life of Pericles.'Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of PericlesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" by Philip Gosse of his grandfather, Edmund Gosse's Life of Philip Henry Gosse F.R.S. (1890) with letters, drawings, photographs e...Philip Gosse Edmund GosseLife of Philip Henry Gosse F.R.S.Unknown
1700-1799'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My son John Marsh showing and inclination to read this ...John Marsh [unknown]Life of Pope Sixtus VPrint: Book
1700-1799'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My son John Marsh showing and inclination to read this ...John Marsh [unknown]Life of Pope Sixtus VPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Warton's "Life of Pope" prefixed to his edition of Pope's "Works"; and compared Wakefield's "Preface" to his "Observations on Pope". These two critics differ e...Thomas Green Joseph WartonLife of Pope, in Works,Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday Jany. 14th. Read the Life of Poplicola -- 'Saturday Jany. 15th. Finish the Life of Poplicola'.Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of PoplicolaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [under...Sarah Harriet Burney John BarrowLife of Richard Earl Howe, K.G., Admiral of the Fl...Print: Book
1600-1699'I took leave of him, and directly by water home; and there to read the Life of Mr Hooker, which pleases me as much as anything I have read in a great while'Samuel Pepys Isaak WaltonLife of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's W...Print: Book
1600-1699'They being gone, I to my book again and made an end of Mr Hooker's life, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Isaak WaltonLife of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's W...Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not know that I ever read one from which my mind receive...Elizabeth Hamilton James CurrieLife of Robert BurnsPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Graham Balfour, 15 November 1901: 'Into my rural backwater books float a bit slowly and circuitously, so that it is only this evening that I have, after de...Henry James Graham BalfourLife of Robert Louis StevensonPrint: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 27 November 1795, 'half after noon': 'Mr. Coxe, whom I could not dismiss, has sat reading to me till this instant, till I can scarce save th...Mr Coxe Life of Robert WalpoleUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Of "Romney's Remorse" [Tennyson] notes: "Edward Fitzgerald said in a letter, 'I read Hayley's Life of Romney the other day: Romney wanted but education and reading to ma...Edward Fitzgerald HayleyLife of RomneyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] a...Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of RomulusPrint: Book
1800-1849The Earl of Aberdeen to John Wilson Croker, in response to a query regarding quotation from Homer by Thucydides, 1 September 1846: 'I should have answered your letter ...Earl of Aberdeen James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read Boswell I am sure ten times - & hope to read it many more it is the most amusing book in the world, besides that I do love the kind hearted wise & Gentle Bea...Mary Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book


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