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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
 
1700-1799'Rousseau says that the Man who finding his Affairs embarrassed - puts an end to his own Life; is like one who finding his House in Disorder sets it on Fire in stead of s...Hester Lynch Thrale Jean Jacques RousseauLa Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Roved around Northampton and stepped into most of the booksellers' shops to examine new works, etc, and made extracts as they suited, and took down titles of several to ...John Cole [unknown authors][various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c...Rosamond Lehmann Hans Andersen[fairy tales]Print: Book
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c...Rosamond Lehmann Edith Nesbit Print: Book
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c...Rosamond Lehmann Comtesse de SegurLes Petites Filles Mod?lesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c...Rosamond Lehmann [adult novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c...Rudolph Lehmann Charles Dickens Print: Book
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c...Rudolph Lehmann ['great Victorians' - presumably novelists]Print: Book
1900-1945'Rudo [R.H.Sauter] shows much charm in "Awakening", which harmonised with the charm of the text in a fascinating way.'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe AwakeningPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rumours that Italy have declared war. Read Tropical Tales by "Dolf Wyllard". Ev Roulette.'William Thomas Dolf WyllardeTropical Tales and OthersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They certainly are dogmatical. They are disfigured by exagg...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John RuskinLectures on Architecture and PaintingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rutba is the palace planted in the wilderness when Aladdin's uncle rubbed the lamp; how else can it have got there? It is 200 empty miles from anywhere. It has bed...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][notices posted on walls]Manuscript: Sheet, notices on walls
1800-1849'R[obert] B[rowning] wrote seven and a half pages of comments about E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett]'s revised translation [of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound], and ended with...Robert Browning Aeschylus Prometheus BoundManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's England'Percy Bysshe Shelley John FletcherWife for a Month, APrint: Book
1800-1849'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's England'Percy Bysshe Shelley David HumeHistory of England from the Invasion of Julius Cae...Print: Book
1800-1849'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'Mary Shelley Ovid[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'S finishes aloud the 3rd book of the Aenied [sic] aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'S finishes Homer's Hymns'Percy Bysshe Shelley HomerHymnsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S finishes Phaedrus'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoPhaedrusPrint: Book


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