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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'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe'.George Eliot [pseud.] Salomon MunkMelanges de Philosophie Juive et ArabePrint: Book
1900-1945'At 1.30 p.m. the Headmaster posted an edition of the 'Argus' containing the news of the Declaration of War made by England against Germany. So the die is cast. Pr...Kenneth Julian Faithfull Bickersteth Melbourne ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the afternoon after muster went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Melbourne Punch had a picture of the Tasmanian Dean leering most sensually at a lady sitting besid...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Melbourne PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in either of the papers excepting that some clothes were fou...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Melbourne PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Monday June 25th. [...] Read Melincourt'.Claire Clairmont Thomas Love PeacockMelincourtPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you know by whom 'Melle Mori' is written?' [Gaskell asks George Smith the same question the same day - p.605]Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown]Melle MoriPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde praised "Melmoth" [the Wanderer] as a pioneering work of European Gothic fiction. He admitted, however, that it was stylistically "imperfect" and laughed at its ab...Oscar Wilde Charles MaturinMelmoth the WandererPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Carnot's memorial - he is a common place man'Mary Godwin Lazare N.M. CarnotMemoir adresse au Roi en juillet 1814Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaissance-period texts, by William Gifford in his Memoir ...Edward Morgan Forster William GiffordMemoir of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaissance-period texts, by William Gifford in his Memoir ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William GiffordMemoir of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
1900-1945Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, to which he...Virginia Woolf William Michael RossettiMemoir of Christina RossettiPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to express preference for Mrs Klopstock's letters over those...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownMemoir of Frederick and Margaret KlopstockPrint: Book
1850-189929 March 1880: 'I have not read very much since I came here, but have finished Miss Freer's memoirs of that bold, bad man, Henri Quatre. When one reads of such doings ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss Freermemoir of Henri IVPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 27 December 1894: "I have been reading with the liveliest -- and almost painful -- interest the two volumes on the extraordinary Symonds."Henry James Horatio BrownMemoir of John Addington SymondsPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 12 December 1818: 'I worked all the morning; before dinner I read in my own room to Lady Hardwicke, Lady Charlotte Lindsay, and my sister, what I had...Mary Berry Mary BerryMemoir of Lady RussellManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 19 December 1818: 'Sir James Mackintosh in my room this morning; hearing me read over and commenting on my "Memoir of Lady Russell," spoke frankly, s...Mary Berry Mary BerryMemoir of Lady RussellManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to James Simpson, 22 October 1819: 'I have been much interested in the perusal of a work sent me some time since by Mr. Murray, the memoirs of the late Mrs...Felicia Hemans Dr Alexander BruntonMemoir of Mary BruntonPrint: Book
1800-1849'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read a "Memoir of the Queen of Prussia" in 1822'.Felicia Hemans unknownMemoir of the Queen of PrussiaPrint: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Long sections of [Thomas] Hardy's "Memoir" had been read out to two of the [radical society (?London Corresponding Society)] meetings to commemorate the acquittal of the...Thomas HardyMemoir of Thomas Hardy, Founder of, and Secretary ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:] 'My life since I saw you last has passed on as monotonously...Charlotte Bronte Thomas PriceMemoir of William WilberforcePrint: Book


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