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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
 
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem...William Gallacher Charles DickensOliver TwistPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Jany 26th. [...] Read newspapers and Reviews [including Olliers Literary Miscellany in Prose and Verse no.1. (1820), and Retrospective Review II (1820)].'Claire Clairmont Olliers Literary Miscellany in Prose and Verse no....Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Have you ever read Olympe de Cleves? If not, remember, it must be read.'Robert Louis Stevenson Alexandre DumasOlympe de ClevesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'My dear Caroline, I am very glad to have an opportunity of answering your agreable [sic] little Letter. You seem to be quite my own Neice [sic] in your feelings towards...Jane Austen Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St Albin Comtesse de GenlisOlympe et TheophilePrint: Book
1700-1799'This evening we read "Olympe and Theophile" (by Mde. de G.) We all cried so much there was not one of us that was capable of reading. [Eugenia says: 'Mesdames de Bombell...the Wynne family and friends, including Betsey, Eugenia and several womenStephanie Felicite, Comtesse de GenlisOlympe et TheophilePrint: Unknown
1800-1849Diary entry, April 17, 1832: "Read the two last Olympic odes today, - except a few lines of the last but one. The very last, to the Graces, is most harmonious & beaut...Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarOlympian OdesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyOmniana, or horae otiosioresPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 10th February, Wrote to Mr Robinson and to Mr. D. Paterson re lecture dates. Read ?Omoo? (Melville)' Gerald Moore Herman MelvilleOmooPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publi...Arnold Bennett Herman MelvilleOmooPrint: Book
1800-1849'On a Gold Heart Which Was broken' 'Ill fated heart and can it be/...' [transcript changes the gender of the speaker]Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronOn A Cornelian Heart Which Was BrokenPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge]'s letter to S[ara] H[utchinson] of May 1807 contained a transcription of Marvell's "On a Drop of Dew".'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Andrew MarvellOn a Drop of DewUnknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of two lines from 'On a Laurel, cut down by a Hatchet. Merivale', beginning 'Oh! where was Phoebus... MerivaleOn a Laurel, cut down by a HatchetUnknown
1800-1849'A Tear' 'Oh! That the chemist's magic art/ Could crystalise [sic] this sacred treasure/... ['Chloe' of Rogers's text changed to 'Anna' in manuscript]'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxSamuel RogersOn A TearUnknown
1800-1849'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love! - ah why/That question cruel ask of me/...' [minor differences from the original]Edward or George Carey George Gordon, Lord ByronOn Being Asked What Was the "Origin of Love"Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love!" - Ah Why That Cruel question ask of Me.'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronOn Being Asked What Was The "Origin of Love"Unknown
1900-1945'Many thanks for your Hill book. ["On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills"] I had meant to thank you verbally on the evening of your annual meeting last Friday but it cam...William Henry Hudson Henry SaltOn Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Sno...Print: Book
1850-1899"Morley has just published a book on 'Compromise'; out of the Fortnightly. I think his writing improves. It seems to me good & dignified without being too much like a ser...Leslie Stephen John MorleyOn CompromisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Ode on Disapointment' 'Come, Disapointment, come! /...' [No author given]Mary Groom Henry Kirke WhiteOn DisapointmentUnknown
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Thomas Flatman, 'On Dr. Brown's Travels'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Thomas FlatmanOn Dr. Brown's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had a nice day yesterday lying out under the trees in a deck-chair reading Bertie Russell's "On Education". A good firm book.'Harold Nicolson Bertrand RussellOn EducationPrint: Book


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