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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[Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Christianity, diffusion of, assisted by the general scepticism of the pagan world combined with the necessity of some belief in the vulgar...Edward Davy Harrop Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'During these twelve months [inprison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Hume's "History of England", and many othe...James Watson Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'Rose at seven, purposely to proceed in Gibbon's Miscell. Works- which I began yesterday. - read the whole of his own memoirs- 185 pages.'William Upcott Edward GibbonMiscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'The finishing of the first volume of Gibbon is all I have been able to accomplish comfortably from my last memoranda. Every morning this week has been taken up in copyin...William Upcott Edward GibbonMiscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His LifePrint: Book
1900-1945[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery Edward GibbonThe Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1850-1899?Another great book which I bought in those days was Gibbon?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (Bohn?s edition in seven volumes). Relative to my means, the price wa...Thomas Burt Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be...Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Gibbon on the revival of Greek learning'George Eliot [pseud] Edward Gibbon[on revival of Greek learning]Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'George Eliot [pseud] Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'I read Gibbon. It makes me dread a single literary life, so selfish, so vain and blind, as ths great man grew to be!' Harriet Martineau Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon's correspondence. Selfish, vain creature! -- beyond almost all I ever read of.'Harriet Martineau Edward GibboncorrespondencePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon. Selfish, vain, unhappy man! [goes on to discuss Gibbon]'Harriet Martineau Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1700-1799'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was pleased with it.'Joseph Hunter Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline & Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1700-1799'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was pleased with it.'Joseph Evans Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline & Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1700-1799'Took Gibbon to the library. I have not had time to read more than one chapter being engaged with Bowyers. I can procure it another time.'Joseph Hunter Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1900-1945'Sunday 28th November ?Decline and fall? (Edward Gibbon).' Gerald Moore Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 7th December. "Decline and Fall? ? Vol. 2'. Gerald Moore Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book


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