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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
 
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf Saint-SimonMemoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit fo...Virginia Woolf Charles GrevilleMemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799[LP recounts, addressing Matthew Pilkington, how she was invited to a Dublin widower's house and in the parlour] 'a Gentleman sat reading my first Volume. I did not inter...a gentleman Laetitia PilkingtonMemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Having been told by a lady that Lord Kingsborough lived nearby, and expressed enthusiasm, the lady said] 'well, Madam, though you have made a Mystery of your Name, I am ...a lady Laetitia PilkingtonMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 22 January 1849: 'I have recently read Lord Hervey's Memoirs, on the recommendation of a friend. If you have not read them I recommend t...George Grote Lord HerveyMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Moore had owned that the Memoirs [of Byron] were of "such a low pot-house description" that [John Murray] could not have published them'Thomas Moore George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate p...Lord John Russell George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate p...Lord Holland George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate p...Lord Rancliffe George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Friday, 9 December 1825: 'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson [...] She must have been assis...Walter Scott Harriet WilsonMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 10 March 1827: 'About three o'clock I got to a meeting of the Bannatyne club [...] Thomson is superintending a capital edition of Sir James Melville's Memoir...Walter Scott Sir James MelvilleMemoirsUnknown
1800-1849Friday, 8 June 1827: 'I was fatigued and sleepy when I go[t] home [from business meetings] and nodded, I think, over Sir James Melville's Memoirs.'Walter Scott Sir James MelvilleMemoirsUnknown
1800-1849Friday, 3 August 1827: 'Huntley Gordon lent me a volume of his father's Manuscript Memoirs. They are not without interest, for Pryce Gordon though a bit of a roue, is ...Walter Scott Pryce GordonMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray respecting the purchase of the Memoirs [of Byron], he had given "Lady Holland the...Lady Holland George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray respecting the purchase of the Memoirs [of Byron], he had given "Lady Holland the...Lord John Russell George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray respecting the purchase of the Memoirs [of Byron], he had given "Lady Holland the...William Gifford George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray respecting the purchase of the Memoirs [of Byron], he had given "Lady Holland the...Mr Luttrell George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson.'Walter Scott Harriet WilsonMemoirsPrint: Unknown
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 CookeMemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am deep in the Memoires of the Duc de Sully, and exceedingly entertained by them. I make him my companion with p...Catherine Talbot Duc de SullyMemoirsPrint: Book


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