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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
 
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794 'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on at least with Spanish, for I have been able to meet w...Elizabeth Smith Garcilaso de la VegaHistory of the IncasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Gaspard GourgaudJournal de Ste. Hélène 1815-1818Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I also bought a French Book on the Poetry of the middle ages — so you see dear Oxford is a dangerous place for a book lover.' (2) 'I am now reading in French this ...Clive Staples Lewis Gaston ParisLa Litterature francaise au moyen age (XI-XIV siec...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:] 'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, that I may return it to her? if not, when you write, pr...Catherine Talbot Gautier de Costes de la CalprenèdePharamond; or the History of FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945Throughout our childhood, mother read aloud to us, usually at the kitchen table, but sometimes, as a treat, in the front room and sometimes, on warm summer evenings, in t...Harriet Beer Gene Stratton-PorterFrecklesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Out training signallers and observers. The former very efficient, the latter the very reverse. We are to move on the 21st. Heard that my school (Hillhead H.S.) are sendi...Robert Lindsay Mackay Gene Stratton-PorterMichael O'Halloran: A NovelPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 15 June 1829: 'I read Genl. Miller's account of the South American War. I liked it the better that Basil Hall brought the author to breakfast with [me] in Edin...Walter Scott General MillerMemoirs of General Miller, in the Service of the R...Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cramb, and some Bernhardi, and I am sure we could not ...Edward Morgan Forster General Friedrich Adam Julius von Bernhardi Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include General R. T. Wilson's account of five British sailors' purchase of a woman sold at auction by A...Edward Morgan Forster General Sir Robert Thomas WilsonHistory of the British Expedition to EgyptPrint: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson Geoffery Chaucer[unknown works]Print: Book
1900-1945I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. . . . In my opinion the three best contributions, in...Arnold Bennett Geoffrey BulloughFrom BondageManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth, on visit to Catherine Clarkson at Bury St Edmunds, to William Wordsworth and Sara Hutchinson, 14 August 1810: 'In the afternoon we looked over half th...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary read) and Bishop Hall.'Wordsworth FamilyGeoffrey ChaucerunknownUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'A rainy morning ... I read a little of Chaucer, prepared the goose for dinner, and then we all walked ou...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 2 December 1801: 'I read the Tale of Phoebus and the Crow ...'Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Maunciple's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer aloud, and Mary read the first canto of The Fairy Que...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 9 December 1801: 'I read Palamon and Arcite.'Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Knight's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'When we were at Thomas Ashburner's on Sunday Peggy talked about the [drunken] Queen of Patterdale ... We ...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerPrologues from the Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'When we were at Thomas Ashburner's on Sunday Peggy talked about the [drunken] Queen of Patterdale ... We ...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Man of Law's TalePrint: Book


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