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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
 
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Henry Fielding Print: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Tobias Smollett Print: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Walter Scott Print: Book
1900-1945'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feeling that the life of adventure could be led by a man...Edward Morgan Forster Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feeling that the life of adventure could be led by a man...Edward Morgan Forster Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rode down to Miyajino where we tiffined under a tea house shed by the edge of the river. Very delicious. Came back the other side of the stream, valley the last half hou...Gertrude Bell Claude Reignier ConderunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Roderick is safe depend upon it I venture my judgement on it very publickly that it is the first epic poem of the age - its great merit consists in the extent and boldne...James Hogg Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Rodogune 1646. Despite indistinct and I believe undistinguished diction, this is the most moving and exciting play of Corneille I've struck [...] Antiochus and Seleucus ...Edward Morgan Forster Pierre CorneilleRodogunePrint: Book
1800-1849'Rogers has at length appeared; an old friend must be a good poet; but without reference to this feeling there are some good descriptions - the Mother and Child, Mr Fox a...Sydney Smith Samuel RogersHuman LifePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on paestum are said to be beautiful. The whole poem is not more than 8...Lord and Lady HollandSamuel RogersHuman LifePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are said to be beautiful. The whole poem is not more than 8...John Nicholas Fazackerly Samuel RogersHuman LifePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are said to be beautiful. The whole poem is not more than 8...Samuel RogersHuman LifePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Roley back for lunch, first swimming lesson this term. Read him Eric Brighteyes after lunch, then he went up to swimming.'Verena Pennefather Henry Rider HaggardEric BrighteyesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Roley back from school about 4. Told him to come early, as I was afraid of his being out late with his chill. Read "She" to him.'Verena Pennefather Henry Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1800-1849'Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! ... And laid my hand upon thy mane - as I do here. 4th canto'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold, Canto IVUnknown
1850-1899'Rondeau On reading a work by M. Auguste Maquet entitled Les Vertes Feuilles. See, "The Green Leaves", I leave them here uncut, − Drop them, recoiling, at the f...Robert Louis Stevenson Auguste MaquetLes Feuilles VertesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rose 7.15 and seem to have spent day writing, going on with Henry James's "Ambassadors", finishing "Britling", but most of all sleeping.'Ronald Storrs Henry JamesThe AmbassadorsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Rose at 7 am wash'd looked over the paper etc.'Joseph Jenkinson [n/a][The Morning Chronicle?]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Rose at seven, purposely to proceed in Gibbon's Miscell. Works- which I began yesterday. - read the whole of his own memoirs- 185 pages.'William Upcott Edward GibbonMiscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably Bible?]Print: Book


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