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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'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstrate specimen of bad biographical writing'George Eliot [pseud] Thomas MooreMemoirs of the Life of SheridanPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 August 1842: 'Romilly's memoirs have interest [...] Not that I am an enthusiast about [italics]him[end italics] [...] i...Elizabeth Barrett Samuel RomillyMemoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly, Written...Print: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] John Gibson LockhartMemoirs of the Life of Sir Walter ScottPrint: Book
1800-1849'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala'Mary Shelley Anthony HamiltonMemoirs of the Life of the Count de GrammontPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together...Joseph Conrad George TomlineMemoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable William...Print: Book
1800-1849'I think you will like Sir James Mackintosh's Life; it is full of his own thoughts upon men, books and events, and I derived from it the greatest pleasure. He makes most ...Sydney Smith Robert James MackintoshMemoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir Ja...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read most of Moore's Life of Sheridan, I see Mr Canning first came into notice in 1794...'Robert Sharp Thomas MooreMemoirs of the Life of the Rt Hon R B SheridanPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening read memoirs of Voltaire.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin VoltaireMemoirs of the life of Voltaire written by himselfPrint: Book
1700-1799'JOHNSON. "O! Mr. Dilly-you must know that an English Benedictine Monk at Paris has translated "The Duke of Berwick's Memoirs", from the original French, and has sent the...Samuel Johnson James Fitzjames, 1st Duke of BerwickMemoirs of the Marshall Duke of BerwickManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'I was resolved not to write until I had read your Husband's Book, of which literally I have not even now read...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas ClarksonMemoirs of the Private and Public Life of William ...Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Looked over the notes Mrs. Lefanu had written on Watkin's life of her brother - little in them - chiefly about her father's respectability etc. etc. which, though very in...Thomas Moore John WatkinsMemoirs of the Public and Private Life of the Righ...Print: Book
1800-1849'It is impossible to read a more entertaining book, & it very much exalts one's opinion of the author's ability. But what a picture he draws & exhibits in himself of huma...G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle John HerveyMemoirs of the Reign of George the Second, from hi...Print: Book
1800-1849

[Charlotte Brontė to the grandson of Henry James Mercier, 1 June 1848:]


'I have read 2,500 with pleasure. It is a very clever and ingenious production, ...

Charlotte Brontė Henry James MercierMemoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five HundredPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Walpole's Turkey and M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China'.Benjamin Newton Robert WalpoleMemoirs relating to European and Asiatic TurkeyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas JeffersonMemoirs, Correspondence, and Private PapersPrint: Book
1800-1849"In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon..."Thomas Cooper XenophonMemorabiliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one...Xenophon MemorabiliaPrint: Book
1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo...Frances Power Cobbe Xenophon MemorabiliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Begin "Memorabilia" again. Read to p. 6.'John Ruskin XenophonMemorabiliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'To p. 12 of "Memorabilia".'John Ruskin XenophonMemorabiliaPrint: Book


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