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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
 
1800-1849'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then apparently never ventured beyond the New Testament, Pilgri...mother of Joseph Wright Friedrich KlopstockMessiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nothing material has occurred to me since I returned from Mainhill. I wrote the first half of "Hunsteen" and translated, from the German, the first half of "Mohs";'Thomas Carlyle Friedrich MohsCrystalographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m...Herbert Hodge Friedrich Nietzsche Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Friedrich Nietzsche[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Idols' and 'Ecce Homo', to ignore the fact that they w...Edwin Muir Friedrich NietzscheThe Twilight of the IdolsPrint: Book
1900-1945[Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Idols' and 'Ecce Homo', to ignore the fact that they w...Edwin Muir Friedrich NietzscheEcce HomoPrint: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Friedrich Nietzsche[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, C...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Friedrich Nietzsche[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Nietzsche is one of the very few philosophers who remain poets in the midst of their philosophising; perhaps he is the only one. His words are often as near to actual li...William Soutar Friedrich Nietzsche[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945P.S. I recommend to you 'Zarathustra'. It is not a book for the weak or the sentimental but a great book. I have been fortifying myself with it in moments of weakne...Freya Stark Friedrich NietzscheAlso sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Kei...Print: 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...Friedrich SchillerWilliam TellPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have translated a portion of Schiller's History of the thirty years war (it is all about Gustavus and the fellow-soldados of Dugald Dalgetty your dearly-beloved friend...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich SchillerGeschichte des dreissigj?hrigen KriegsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The colossal "Wallenstein" and Thekla the angelical, and Max her impetuous lofty-minded lover are all gone to rest; I have closed Schiller for a night; and what can I do...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich SchillerWallensteinPrint: Book
1700-1799[27th December]'I took my lessons and learnt part of a superb tragedy in german called "Don Carlos" with Mr Jaegle.' ... [28th December]'We finished the lecture of "Don...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Friedrich SchillerDon Carlos in GermanPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I thought to rise at five on Thursday morning, but fatigue made my head bad. I slept till nine - I opened "Mary Stewart" after breakfast but Dr Fiffe interrupted me, an...Jane Baillie Welsh Friedrich SchillerMary StewartPrint: Book
1800-1849'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ev...Jane Baillie Welsh Friedrich SchillerMaria StuartPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I have finished William Tell - and mean to commence Turandot on Monday - I could read Schiller for ever - who but himself could have made such a play as Tell on such a p...Jane Baillie Welsh Friedrich SchillerWilliam TellPrint: BookManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more difficult than his verse or my head is much thicker than...Jane Baillie Welsh Friedrich SchillerFiesco Or, The Conspiracy of Genoa: an Historical ...Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I am daily expecting a letter from you on the subject of the Life of Schiller. I have got a copy of his Works beside me, which I have been glancing over; and I feel anx...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich SchillerWorksPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this l...George Gissing Friedrich Schiller[unknown]Print: Book


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