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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
 
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Moralistic reflections in verse'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Philip WoodhouseMoralistic reflections in versePrint: Book
1700-1799'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made a very deep and lasting impression in my mind. By re...James Lackington PlutarchMoralsPrint: Book
1700-1799?? in looking over the title pages, I met with Hobbes translation of Homer, I had some how or other heard that Homer was a great poet, but unfortunately I had never heard...James Lackington EpictetusMoralsPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am fallen in love with Plutarch's Morals, a little of which my lord reads us now and then out of a very so so tr...Thomas Secker Plutarch MoralsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, 29 October 1749:] 'O Sir! how I regret your want of time! As I lately read the twentieth chapter of Seneca's Morals, I ...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh Seneca Morals ('twentieth chapter')Print: Book
'Communication between these poets and myself was instantaneous. I saw with delighted amazement that all poetry had been written specially for me. Although I spoke - in m...Dorothy Burnham Alfred TennysonMore d'ArthurPrint: Unknown
1850-1899H. J. Jackson discusses Max Beerbohm's "doctored copy of Queen Victoria's More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands", to which he added "playfully-intended ...Max Beerbohm Queen VictoriaMore Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the High...Print: Book
1900-194523 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & Turgenev.'Virginia Woolf Margot OxfordMore MemoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Kipling's "Diversities", Steevans "India", Wells "War [of the Worlds]" "Dynamiter" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'Ronald Storrs Fanny Van de Grift Van de Grift Stevenson and Robert Louis StevensonMore New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter Print: Book
1900-1945'Having read again Housman's "More Poems", one is forced to the conclusion that his philosophic attitude had been definitely exploited in his previous two collections; an...William Soutar Alfred Edward HousmanMore PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf Jacques Emile BlancheMore Portraits of a Lifetime, 1918-38Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Moses MendelssohnMorgenstunden oder Vorlesungun uber das Daseyn GotPrint: Book
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for housebreaking/receiving stolen goods: Thomas Davies: "I think it was in the middle of November I saw it in the 'Morning Advertiser' -I n...Thomas Davies Morning AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for burglary: Ralph Hope: "[Spencer] was apprehended and committed for examination. In about a fortnight after, I saw an advertisement in th...Ralph Hope Morning AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for deception: Charles Baldwin: 'On Tuesday, the 6th of June, I read this advertisement in the newspaper, which I produce—("Situations:—So nu...Charles Baldwin [n/a]Morning AdvertiserPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1600-1699"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an...John Rogers morning and evening prayersPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no paper but [James] Perry's [Morning Chronicle] and tw...George Gordon, Lord Byron variousMorning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a co...Thomas Carter [n/a]Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'...and this morning the Morning Chronicle puts forth an article having every appearance of being written by Palmerston himself (as I have no doubt it was) most violent, ...Charles Greville Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The article in todays Chronicle about the curry powder [about the duke of Norfolk's suggestion that workers could alleviate hunger by dissolving it in water] is by Knox'...Mary Shelley KnoxMorning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper


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