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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
 
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham (1850-51): 'And so you are reading my Bozzy'.Henry Brougham James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1700-1799'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those papers, which have been since transferred to me. Sir ...James Boswell John HawkinsLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you wil...Lady Harriet Cavendish James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
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1800-1849		Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you wil...Lady Harriet Cavendish James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831): 'I have read "Boswell's Journal" ten times: I hope to read...Mary Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Boswell's life of Johnson'Mary Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson LL.D.Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - finish Life of Johnson'Mary Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson LL.D.Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on...Percy Bysshe Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson LL.D.Print: Book
1850-1899'I idle finely. I read Boswell’s "Life of Johnson"[…]' Robert Louis Stevenson James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson.Print: Book
1800-184919/6/1847 ? 'I have been reading the life of Sarah Martin; it made me shed many tears, from the sense of her superior virtue, and my own inferiority. What an example she ...Amelia Opie unknownLife of Sarah MartinPrint: Book
1700-1799'Sir Joshua Reynolds told me, that upon his return from Italy he met with it [Johnson's "Life of Savage"] in Devonshire, knowing nothing of its authour [sic], and began t...Joshua Reynolds Samuel JohnsonLife of SavagePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read again Burlamacchi's Life of Savonarola'.George Eliot BurlamacchiLife of SavonarolaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".'George Eliot [pseud.] Giovanni (?) VillaniLife of Savonarola [in his Cronica?]Print: Book
1900-1945' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's "Life of Scott" to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Qu...Sir Edward Fry John Gibson LockhartLife of ScottPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's Life of Scott to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Quak...Mariabella Fry John Gibson LockhartLife of ScottPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Scott's Life in the evenings with much enjoyment.'George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesJ.G. Lockhart (probably)Life of ScottPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 7 January 1838: 'Read Life of Scott, Vol. VI. It is far more interesting than the former ones'.Harriet Martineau ? J. G. ?LockhartLife of Scott (vol. 6)Print: Book
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's Note Book: 'On the 25th November 1825, I went by His Majesty's invitation to dine and sleep at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park. His Majesty...King George IV and John Wilson CrokerThomas MooreLife of SheridanPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of Purgatorio, but find it stiff, the meaning more than the language, I think.' ...Leonard Woolf Stephen Gwynne and Gertrude TuckwellLife of Sir Charles Wentworth DilkePrint: Book
1800-1849'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagined Cunningham could have so little knowledge of art'John Ruskin Allan CunninghamLife of Sir David WilkiePrint: Book


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