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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'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La...Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick medical journalsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John HaslamMedical Jurisprudence as it relates to Insanity, aPrint: Book
1850-1899'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'George Eliot [pseud.] Joseph PettigrewMedical SuperstitionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House 27/2/30

R. H. Robson in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
5. The subject of “Medieval Social Life” wh...		Alfred Rawlings Alfred RawlingsMedieval Artists and their MethodsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th...Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Marcus AureliusMeditationsPrint: Book
1850-1899" ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in good humour ...' [Leigh] Hunt courteously adds, 'Thank...James Henry Leigh Hunt Marcus Aurelius AntoninusMeditationsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Mrs Voynich has sent me M Aurelius and Epictetus. The last is a game old boy, and I should dearly love to watch him in a strafe, but M Aurelius is a pious swanker in...Ivor Bertie Gurney Marcus AureliusMeditationsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I at home all day. Read part of Hervey's "Meditations".'Thomas Turner James HerveyMeditations among the tombs: in a letter to a ladyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even and the day read two of Tillotson's sermons and part of the 2nd volume of Hervey's "Meditations". Thomas Turner James HerveyMeditations among the tombs: in a letter to a ladyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were Hervey's "Meditations", "The Pilgrim's Progress", a...Thomas Carter James HerveyMeditations among the tombs; in a letter to a ladyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons, Sherlock on Death, Watts' world to come, Rollin's "...John Cole William SherlockMeditations and A practical discourse concerning d...Print: Book
1800-1849'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons, Sherlock on Death, Watts' world to come, Rollin's "...John Cole James HerveyMeditations and contemplationsPrint: Book
1700-1799Edward Young to Samuel Richardson, 10 December 1745: 'Caroline [?wife] begs her best requests to Mrs Richardson and yourself, and many thanks for the present I brought...Caroline [?Young] HerveyMeditations [?Among the Tombs]Print: Book
1900-1945'A short programme of selections from American authors had been arranged but time only sufficed for the reading of The Meeting by Whittier the rendering of which by Mrs E...Elizabeth Edminson John Greenleaf WhittierMeeting, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I prefer to go as soon as I can to the fountainhead, and to read, say, "Mein Kampf," to reading about Hitler. Such books I buy and read through without skipping or skimm...Adolf HitlerMein KampfPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - "Mein Kampf". Oh, I lik...Adolf HitlerMein KampfPrint: Book
1800-1849'I would have answered your letter sooner but for a long series of movements and countermovements I have had to execute. I also wished to read Goethe's book, before dete...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMeister Wilhelm's Wanderjahre (first volume)Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1839: 'I have lately held within my hands Miss Eliza Cook's poems [...] [comments upon book's introduction and...Elizabeth Barrett Eliza CookMelaia, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'With Willis's Melaine, etc., I have been delighted, and indeed affected, more than with any poetry I ever read in my life. I wonder if he is the gentleman I met at Mr. W...Barbara Hofland WillisMelainePrint: Book
1700-1799"Reading - finished Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature which had been my Night lecture."Lady Eleanor Butler Melanges d'Histoire et de LitteraturePrint: Book


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