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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
 
1800-1849Tuesday, 17 October 1826: 'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as the stile [quotes from Jonathan Swift, "On the Dea...Walter Scott John SmithBrambletye HousePrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 19 October 1826: 'I rose at my usual time [7 am] but could not write so read Southey['s] History of the Peninsular War. It is very good indeed, honest Englis...Walter Scott Robert SoutheyHistory of the Peninsular WarPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 4 January 1827: 'After tea I broke off work and read my young folks the farce of The Critic and "merry folks were we."' Walter Scott R. B. SheridanThe CriticPrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 6 January 1827: 'In the evening read Foote's farce of the Commissary, said to have been levelled at Sir Laurence Dundas.'Walter Scott FooteThe CommissaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott report of funeral of William GiffordPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott William Giffordtranslation of JuvenalPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott William GiffordThe Baviad Print: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott William GiffordThe MaeviadPrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 23 January 1827: 'Betwixt dinner and tea while husbanding a tumbler of whisky and water I read the new novel Elizabeth de Bruce -- part of it that is'. Walter Scott Christian Isobel JohnsonElizabeth de BrucePrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 27 January 1827: 'Read Elizth. de Bruce -- it is very clever but does not show much originality: the characters though very entertaining are in the manner of...Walter Scott Christian Isobel JohnsonElizabeth de BrucePrint: Book
1800-1849'An excellent plot, excellent friends, and full of preparations'. Footnote: An allusion to Hotspur's plot in I Henry IV, ii. 3. Walter Scott William ShakespeareHenry IVUnknown
1800-1849Monday, 5 February 1827: 'Dined at the Royal Society club -- above 30 present. Went to the Society in the evening and heard an essay by Peter Tytler on the first encou...Walter Scott Peter Tytler'essay [...] on the first encourager of Greek lear...Unknown
1800-1849'I am come to the time when those who look out at the windows shall be darkend.'Walter Scott Bible: EcclesiastesUnknown
1800-1849Saturday, 10 February 1827: 'I got a present of Lord Frederick Leveson Gower's printed but unpublishd "Tale of the Mill" -- it is a fine tale of terror in itself and v...Walter Scott Lord Frederick Leveson GowerTale of the MillPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Seams will slit and elbows will out quoth the tailor - and as I was fifty four on 15 August last my mortal vestments are none of the newest.'Walter Scott Samuel FooteThe Maid of BathUnknown
1800-1849Saturday, 10 March 1827: 'About three o'clock I got to a meeting of the Bannatyne club [...] Thomson is superintending a capital edition of Sir James Melville's Memoir...Walter Scott Sir James MelvilleMemoirsUnknown
1800-1849Monday, 12 March 1827: 'I have been trying to read a new novel which I have heard praised. It is calld Almacks an[d] the author has so well succeeded in describing the...Walter Scott AlmacksPrint: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 22 April 1827: 'Wrought [i.e. worked] in the afternoon and tried to read De Vere, a sensible but heavy book written by an able hand -- but a great bore for all...Walter Scott Robert WardDe VerePrint: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 13 May 1827: 'Spent the day, which was delightful, wandering from place to place in the woods, sometimes reading the new and interesting volumes of Cyril Thorn...Walter Scott Captain Thomas HamiltonThe Youth and Manhood of Cyril ThorntonPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 8 June 1827: 'I was fatigued and sleepy when I go[t] home [from business meetings] and nodded, I think, over Sir James Melville's Memoirs.'Walter Scott Sir James MelvilleMemoirsUnknown


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