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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		'It was when I was very ill that the article in the "Monthly Rev." was read to me.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'From paper in "Monthly Review" I got on Mathematical Subjects and resumed Consideration of Negative Signs, retracing former reasonings [...] found much enjoyment in it.'William Windham [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Got the "Monthly Mag" & "Rev." from Miss Haynes. They appear to be two very entertaining no's. I am much pleased with the account of Mr Lambton in the "Monthly Mag". the...Joseph Hunter [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"The following remarks made by the compilers of the Monthy Review for 1788, page 286, are so applicable to the present subject, that I hope my introducing the passage wil...James Lackington Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews"; and on being answered there was...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Talking of the Reviews, Johnson said, "I think them very impartial: I do not know an instance of partiality". He mentioned what had passed upon the subject of the "Month...Samuel Johnson Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'I have so much to read & lose so much time in this detestable visiting. I have seen the Monthly Rev. they speak well of F...Robert Southey Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so well understand what it all seems to be about, I sho...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown]Monthly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of ...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790, 'at night': 'While I write, Mr. Lysons has been turning over Le Neve's "Monumenta Anglicana," and has found that [italics]nine...Mr Lysons John le NeveMonumenta Anglicana: Inscriptions on the Monuments...Print: Book
1800-1849'all I have read today is Moores Almanack for the account of the weather which speaks of rain tho it is very hot.John Clare Moore's AlmanackPrint: Pamphlet, almanack
1700-1799'Read Hurd's "Dialogue" between Cowley and Sprat, on Retirement...'Thomas Green Richard HurdMoral and political dialoguesPrint: Book
1700-1799'That learned and ingenious Prelate [Dr Hurd] it is well known published at one period of his life "Moral and Political Dialogues", with a woefully whiggish cast. Afterwa...James Boswell Richard HurdMoral and Political Dialogues: being the substance...Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, an anonymous 'Moral dialogue'.Elizabeth Lyttelton anonMoral DialoguePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Pope's five "Ethic Epistles" or "Moral Essays". There is an occasional pertness and flippancy in them, not to my taste...'Thomas Green Alexander PopeMoral EpistlesPrint: Book
1800-1849'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. Bu...Mary Smith Thomas BrownMoral PhilosophyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading and enjoying Sydney Smith's 'Moral Philosophy', which Mrs Smith sent me this winter, and I find it a delightful book.'Fanny Allen Sydney SmithMoral PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'E- being called out for a few hours in the morning I attempted to amuse myself with Marmontel's Tales- it was but an attempt. For I hurried thro' them 'quite upon thorns...William Upcott Jean Francois MarmontelMoral TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Miss Edgeworth's Popular Tales for the Young with thorough gusto.'Robert Louis Stevenson Maria EdgeworthMoral Tales for Young PeoplePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41
F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet...		Violet Clough Maria EdgeworthMoral Tales for Young PeoplePrint: 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 Plutarch MoraliaPrint: Book


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