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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
 
1700-1799Sat humdrum some time. Read a storry out of 'Nunnery Tales'. At 5 to Mrs Drydens...Gertrude Savile 'Young Nobleman' Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and TrPrint: Book
1850-1899'When I was living in Sallie's home one of the male boarders who called himself a Socialist showed me some articles in a Sunday paper written by Robert Blatchford, "Nunqu...Hannah Mitchell Robert BlatchfordNunquamPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...Charles and Katherine Evans Nut Brown MaidPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Buchanan, he said, was a very fine poet; and observed that he was the first who complimented a lady, by ascribing to her the different perfections of the heathen goddess...Samuel Johnson George BuchananNympha CaledoniaePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] Michael DraytonNymphidia, The Court of FairyPrint: Book
1800-1849Entered by Coleridge in Wordsworth Commonplace Book: 'O holy peace by thee are only found The passing joys that every where abound Sylvester'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joshua SylvesterO Holy PeaceManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding D.A. SmithO the Brave MusicPrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 14 March 1826: 'I have amused myself occasionally very pleasantly during the few last days by reading over Lady Morgan's novel of O'Donnel which has some st...Walter Scott Sydney Owenson, Lady MorganO'DonnelPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel'Mary Godwin Sydney OwensonO'Donnel: a national talePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr North has been reading Lady Morgan's "O'Donnel", and is delighted with it. He says he never read a book that amused him so much, and that it has the merit of being mo...Mr North Sydney, Lady MorganO'Donnel: A National TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m so glad you got your books. But I knew as far as a ?yarn? was concerned it was your book. Oakroyd is a masterpiece.'Winifred Agnes Moore unknownOakroydPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Catherine HuttonOakwood HallPrint: Book
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 20 June 1845: 'The Meyricks have been here today. Mr. Meyrick told Edwards [Sewell's brother] there was no doubt that Newman ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John Henry NewmanObedience, the remedy for religious perplexityPrint: Book
1700-1799'"I am translating the Oberon of Wieland," C[oleridge] told [Thomas] Poole, 20 Nov 1797.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christoph Martin WielandOberonUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843: 'Reading Mr Halpin of the Shakespeare society upon Oberon's command to Puck in the "midsummer night's dream,...Elizabeth Barrett Nicholas John HalpinOberon's Vision in the Midsummer-Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle Christoph WielandOberon. Ein Gedicht in 14 GesangenPrint: Unknown
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1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Hester Lynch PiozziObservationsPrint: Book
1800-1849'So you are in correspondence with Mrs piozzi? Enviable Mortal! - Do you know I am, at this present writing, stark staring mad for love [of] her. I have been reading her ...Sarah Harriet Burney Hester Lynch PiozziObservations and Reflections made in the course of...Print: Book
1800-1849'The book is one huge mass of entertainment from beginning to end - And written in such an unaffected spirit of Christian charity...'Sarah Harriet Burney Hester Lynch PiozziObservations and Reflections Made in the Course of...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Mark L.] Reed judges that a passage on pedlars from Heron was entered in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 5 April 1800 ... 'Wordsworth FamilyRobert HeronObservations Made in a Journey through the Western...Print: Book


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