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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
 
1800-1849Wednesday, 12 March 1829: 'I read Reginald Heber's journal after dinner. I spent some merry days with him at Oxford when he was writing his prize-poem. He was then a g...Walter Scott Reginald HeberNarrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces...Print: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 25 March 1829: 'Dined. Heard Anne reading a paper of anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson and so to bed.'Anne Scott 'anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson [ie Ewan Macpher...Unknown
1800-1849Sunday, 5 April 1829: 'Read prayers to what remains of our [house] party, being Anne [daughter], my niece Anne, the four Skenes and William Forbes.'Walter Scott PrayersPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 9 April 1829: 'I got a book from the Duke de Leviz, the same gentleman with whom I had an awkward meeting at Abbotsford [in August 1828] owing to his having ...Walter Scott Duke de LevizThe Carbonaro, A Piedmontese TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 18 April 1829: 'In the evening I heard Anne read Mr. Peel's excellent bill on the police of the Metropolis which goes to disband the whole generation of Dogb...Anne Scott Sir Robert Peel's Parliamentary Bill for metropoli...Print: Unknown
1800-1849Sunday, 26 April 1829: 'Looking for something I fell in with the Little drama long amissing calld the Doom of Devorgoil. I believe it was out of mere contradiction tha...Walter Scott Walter ScottThe Doom of DevorgoilManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Thursday, 28 May 1829: 'Mr. MacIntosh Mackay breakfasted and inspected my curious MS. which Dr. Brindley [sic for Brinkley] gave me. Mr. Mackay, I should say Doctor wh...MacIntosh Mackay The Book of RightsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Wednesday, 10 June 1829: 'I have been reading over the Five Days of St. Albans [sic], very much [quotes Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I.72] extra moenia flammantia mundi ...Walter Scott William MudfordThe Five Nights of St AlbansPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 12 June 1829: 'After dinner I wrote to Walter, Charles, Lockhart and John Murray and took a screed of my novel so concluded the evening idly enough.'Walter Scott William MudfordThe Five Nights of St AlbansPrint: 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
1800-1849Sunday, 19 July 1829: 'I read the Spae-wife of Galt. There is something good in it and the language is occasionally very forcible but he has made his story difficult t...Walter Scott John GaltThe SpaewifePrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 3 July 1830: 'I read Southey's Pilgrim's Progress and think of reviewing the same [...] Read Hone's Every day Book and with a better opinion of him than I ex...Walter Scott John BunyanJohn Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, With Life of the...Print: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 3 July 1830: 'I read Southey's Pilgrim's Progress and think of reviewing the same [...] Read Hone's Every day Book and with a better opinion of him than I ex...Walter Scott William HoneEvery-Day Book and Table Book: or Everlasting Cale...Print: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 11 July 1830: 'I have begun Lawrie Todd which ought considering the author's indisputed talents to have been better. He might have laid [James Fenimore] Cowper...Walter Scott John GaltLawrie ToddPrint: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 26 December 1830: 'I shut myself up in Mr. [Henry] Scott's room. He has lately become purchaser of his Grandfather's valuable Library which was collected by Po...Walter Scott Civil war tractsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Sunday, 27 February 1831: 'Being Saturday no Mr. Laidlaw [amanuensis] came yesterday evening nor to-day being Sunday. Truth is I began to fear I was working too hard a...Walter Scott 'German novels'Print: Book
1800-1849Monday, 4 April 1831: 'Mr. Liddell and Hay Mackenzie left us this morning. Liddell shewd me yesterday a very good old fashioned poem worthy of Pope or Churchill in old...Walter Scott LiddellThe SavoyardUnknown
1800-1849Wednesday, 13 April 1831: 'My nap [same afternoon] was a very short one and was agreeably replaced by Basil Hall's Fragments of Voyages. Every thing about the i[n]side...Walter Scott Captain Basil HallFragments of Voyages and TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [Hoffman] had made some translations from the German which he does extremely [well], for give him ideas and he never wants choice of good words, and Lockhart had got ...Walter Scott E.T.A. HoffmanThe Devil's ElixirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 26 October 1831: 'Here we are [at Portsmouth] still fixd by the inexorable wind [...] I engaged in a new novel by Mr. Smith calld New Forest. It is written ...Walter Scott SmithNew ForestPrint: Book


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