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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[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emanuel SwedenborgOeconomia regni animalis, in transactiones divisaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield Sophocles Oedipus at ColonusPrint: Book
1800-1849From Alfred Tennyson's journal of his tour in Cornwall, 1848: '14th [June]. Read part of Oedipus Coloneus [sic].'Alfred Tennyson Sophocles Oedipus ColoneusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read part of Oedipus Coloneus [title underlined].'Alfred Tennyson Sophocles (?)Oedipus Coloneus [sic]Print: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History...George Eliot (pseud) Sophocles Oedipus RexPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles'Percy Bysshe Shelley SophoclesOedipus RexPrint: Book
1800-1849'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedipus Tyrannos to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley SophoclesOedipus TyrannosPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Oedipus Tyrannus'Mary Shelley SophoclesOedipus TyrannusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Oedipus Tyrannus'Mary Shelley SophoclesOedipus TyrannusPrint: Book
1900-1945'A clean table and proper lighting make me solider, I find. Tonight I have swept all the rubbish off my board and read some of Oedipus Tyrannus with only the lamp and two...Edward Morgan Forster Sophocles Oedipus TyrannusPrint: Book
1800-1849[Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does not have his own copy - she later asks Forster if he ...Samuel Bamford Alfred, Lord TennysonOenonePrint: Book
1850-1899'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had joined us, wanted her little boy to hear my father read....Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOEnoneUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 31 March 1817: 'I have bought several books ... among others a complete Voltaire in 92 volumes -- whom I have been reading -- he is delightful...George Gordon Lord Byron VoltaireOeuvres Completes de Voltaire. De L'Imprimerie de...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 May 1760:] 'To-day I have been reading with due wrath and abomination "Le Philosophe Sans Souci." Some lines in that wickedest...Catherine Talbot King Frederick of PrussiaOeuvres du philosophe de Sans-SouciPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading f...Charles Evans HigsonOf an OrchardPrint: Unknown
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne, 'Of Consumptions'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Thomas BrowneOf ConsumptionsUnknown
1800-1849'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends ...Sarah Harriet Burney Richard BaxterOf Coversing [sic] with God in SolitudePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'Drydens denunciation of Time & Space is by no means so ridiculous as Critics have pretended — I cry out agains...Robert Southey John DrydenOf Dramatick Poesie, an Essay Print: Book
1800-1849'in the evening Miltons letter to Mr Hartlib on educations'.Mary Godwin John MiltonOf Education. To Master Samuel HartlibPrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m reading "Of Human Bondage" of Somerset Maugham & it?s terribly good ? some wonderful school stuff, & of course the whole thing, in his subtle way, is quite itching w...Peter Pears Somerset MaughanOf Human BondagePrint: Book


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