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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'Sunday Jany. 16th. [...] Read the Life of Themistocles which a beautiful monument to the glory & virtue of the Athenians [goes on to comment in detail on text].' Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of ThemistoclesPrint: Book
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1850-1899		"An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' (1845) identifies the pseudonymous author of the '...anon LIfe of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'U...Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.'Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of TheseusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.'Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of TheseusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I could not have liked a book more; the predominant feelings has been but selfish - oh, why was I not brought up under him, or as that could not be, why could Inot have ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Arthur Penhyrn StanleyLife of Thomas ArnoldPrint: Book
1800-1849As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary world. I have read the Life of Arnold of Rugby, who wa...Edward Fitzgerald Arthur Penryn StanleyLife of Thomas Arnold D.D, Headmaster of RugbyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sept. Nov. Very interesting'Sarah Good Arthur Penrhyn StanleyLife of Thomas Arnold D.D, Headmaster of RugbyPrint: Book
1850-18991 December 1884, from Canford: 'While Enid [daughter] was here she spent a good deal of time making a miniature drawing in water colours of one of the fine pictures ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Froudelife of Thomas CarlylePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 26 July 1933: 'When I cant write of a morning -- as now -- I try to tune myself on other books: couldnt settle on any save T. Hardy's life just now. Rather to m...Virginia Woolf Florence HardyLife of Thomas HardyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustive study of France ? something fundamental I mean. ...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLife of TurgotPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the life of Virgil'Mary Shelley [unknown]Life of VirgilPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'"Blind Henry's Life of Wallace was the first book that stirred my mind, and set me on a career of reading and thinking that will only terminate with my life, or the comp... HenryLife of WallacePrint: Book
1700-1799'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] book", in this instance a translation of Cicero, whe...Frances Burney Samuel JohnsonLife of WallerPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen J. G. LockhartLife of Walter ScottPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read with interest and curiosity, Hurd's "Life of Warburton"...'Thomas Green Richard HurdLife of Warburton [in Warburton, Works]Print: Book
1800-1849Read Southey's Life of Wesley and ingenious but by no means faithful production I.G. Robert SoutheyLife of WesleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I employed myself in the evening, reading Lord John Russell's life of his ancestor Lord William Russell. The preface is modest, dignified, and forcible; the narrative is...Charlotte Bury Lord John RussellLife of William Lord Russell, with Some Account of...Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "Life" of William Morris.'Virginia Woolf J.W. MackailLife of William MorrisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am disappointed in the "Life". His dull sons have put in such a quantity of repetition that one is quite weary of the same religious sentiment repeated 50 times over i...Emma Wedgwood Robert Isaac & Samuel WilberforceLife of William WiberforcePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday June 30th. Read the Life of Xenophon by Diogenes Laertius -- I am ill all day. .' ...Claire Clairmont Diogenes LaertiusLife of XenophonPrint: Book


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