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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'On the day that the bloody battle of Gravellote was fought [August 18, 1870] they [Hardy and Emma] were reading Tennyson in the grounds of the rectory.'Thomas Hardy and his wife Emma GiffordAlfred Tennyson[Unknown - Poetry]Unknown
1800-1849'On the Destruction of Semnacherib/ By Byron'Julia George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Destruction of SennacheribPrint: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'On the dressing table were three books, my own, "Sanders of the River", Snowden's "Wages and Prices", a relic of my student days, and "The Book of Mormon" which had been...Edgar WallaceSanders of the RiverPrint: Book
1800-1849'On the evening of our arrival at Verona, George said to me, "H, have you got an Italian grammar with you?" -- "Yes." -- "Because I want to look up the verbs." I handed...George Grote Italian grammarPrint: Book
1800-1849'On the evening of the days when it was necessary for him to stay in the City, to "lock up" [the family banking-house], George occupied himself principally with study. He...George Grote classical textsPrint: Book
1700-1799'On the facing verso of the MS [of Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff], [Wordsworth] ... copies out Athalie I.ii.278-82, 292-94 ... 'William Wordsworth Jean RacineAthalieUnknown
1900-1945'On the flyleaf of her novel she quoted from V. Sackville-West's pastoral poem, "The Land", a verse which testified to her abiding sense of the Yorkshire that made her.'Winifred Holtby Vita Sackville-WestThe LandPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'On the inside cover of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 2, in use during 1786-7, a faint pencil inscription survives from c.1786: "Non hoc ista sibi tempus spectacula," from Virgil, ...William Wordsworth VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the last day of my thirtieth year on earth I am writing a few lines. Have moved a mile or so and am now in a nice little village, the name of which I must not s...Thomas Wainwright Charlotte MoorMiss VaughanPrint: Book
1800-1849'On the morning of the New Year we assembled almost all our large household, and many guests, principally young ones. Before we began reading, I expressed many of the str...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part of Voltaire's "Candide", w'ch having read a great man...John Marsh VoltaireCandidePrint: Book
1700-1799'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part of Voltaire's "Candide", w'ch having read a great man...John Marsh William GodwinThings as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Wil...Print: Book
1700-1799'On the next day (Tuesday 31st) I went to Canterbury in the coach & on the same evening in the diligence to Dover where I amused myself with reading "Herman of Unna" (a t...John Marsh C B E NaubertHermann of UnnaPrint: Book
1800-1849'On the other hand, the most pleasurable thing, which has befallen me was receiving two packets, from England, in the same night: the one a letter of fifteen pages from M...Jane Baillie Welsh Various AutographsManuscript: Autographs
1800-1849'On the paper I received this morning was written near the seals "Billy's away" and a sketch of some kind of head... The prosecutors for libel have Reaped but little bene...Robert Sharp The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'On the penult of the year 1819 I reached the last line of the "Iliad". To speak of the merits of the Maeonian Bard from one perusal only may be deemed presumption - ye...Robert Mitchell HomerThe IliadPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'On the plane I saw in the paper of the fellow ahead of me, "Le Marechal Pilzudski est mort hier".'George Catlin  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'On the rear flyleaf of his copy of [Charlotte Smith's] Elegiac Sonnets [5th edn, 1789]... W[ordsworth] copied two more of Smith's compositions, both of which were first ...William Wordsworth Charlotte Smith[sonnets (two)]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'On the recto of a fragment of W[ordsworth]'s Prospectus to The Recluse [Dove Cottage MS 24], there appear the following lines: "That noble Chaucer, in those former tim...William Wordsworth Michael DraytonElegy to my dearly loved Friend, Henry Reynolds, E...Unknown
1850-1899'On the rising of Parliament [on 7 September 1880] the Schreibers were free to go abroad once more. On this occasion they made Cologne their first stopping-place. The eve...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberSamuel PepysJournalPrint: Book


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