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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'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in this life' [...] Read portions of Bryant 'On the plague...John Cole Jacob BryantOn the plagues of EgyptPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slender a wire may be drawn from gold that from once oun...Thomas Turner Christopher SmartOn the power of the Supreme Being: a poetical essa...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835: 'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am now trying to understand Prout upon chemistry [......Elizabeth Barrett Thomas ChalmersOn the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manife...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Benn WalshOn the Present Balance of Parties in the StatePrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "On the Same" ("Virgin and Child")] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'Charles Lamb Mary Anne LambOn the Same (Virgin and Child)Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'On WM Butler's monument in Westminster Abbey Whilst Butler needy wretch! was yet alive, ...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxSamuel Wesley ('the Younger')On the Setting up of Mr Butler's MonumentUnknown
1900-1945'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite. Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the point...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonOn the StaircasePrint: Book
1850-1899'The loading of ships was once a matter of skill, judgement and knowledge. Thick books have been written about it. "Stevens on Stowage" is a portly volume with the re...Joseph Conrad Robert White StevensOn the Stowage of ShipsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Longinus on the Sublime; to which I had been led, by Gibbon's critique in his "Extraits Raisonnes"...'Thomas Green LonginusOn the SublimePrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Longinus On the SublimePrint: Book
1900-1945'His books, "On Two Fronts" and "Letters of a Prisoner", described those early experiences.'Vera Brittain Corder CatchpoolOn Two Fronts: Letters of a Prisoner.Print: Book
1900-1945'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The...members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]On Washing Seldom & then not muchManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849down the newbank to Halifax. Called at a shop or 2, and at Miss Kitson's. Went for 1/2 hour tothe library till the Saltmarshes had done dinner. Read a few pp. of a transl...Anne Lister CiceroOn/the book of old agePrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 1st January, Completed my paper on Mazzini. Read: ?One Act Plays of today? 2nd vol. (Harrap) ?Autocrat of the Breakfast table? (O.W.Holmes).' Gerald Moore J.W. MarriottOne Act Plays of TodayPrint: Book
1850-1899'Hon. Canon of Norwich. Vic. of Ipswich S Mary.'Sarah Good J. R. TurnockOne Body: The Story of the Church of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late avatars? "Preferment", with an undeniable clevern...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeOne Fault. A NovelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly a...members of XII Book ClubCharles StansfieldOne Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freed...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'One of a Covey'Sarah Good Sue Chestnutwood PerkinsOne of a CoveyPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am in a condition such as demands amusement as a cure: that is, I am an invalid—though not a despondent one. I have been struggling with … bronchitis for more th...Herbert Edward Read George MeredithOne of Our ConquerorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Do you know, these wet afternoons I have been reading the story of Aladdin to myself for pleasure, without a dictionary! It's not very difficult, I must confess, still i...Gertrude Bell AnonOne Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights)Print: Book


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