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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 December 1841: 'What a singular movement is this Puseyite one [...] Mr Milnes is a Puseyite & wrote the "One tract more,...Elizabeth Barrett R. M. MilnesOne Tract More, or, The System Illustrated by "The...Print: Unknown
1900-1945'May finished Only a Governess. Pr. ¼ past 9. 1 Cor vii.'May Rosa Nouchette CareyOnly a GovernessPrint: BookUnknown
1850-1899'I was eighteen when I first read those words. My train was running into Rye station and I was knocked out the ashes of my first pipe of shag tobacco... My first book had...Ford Madox Ford Rudyard KiplingOnly a subalternPrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler Pietro Metastasioopera (16 Tom)Print: Book
1900-1945"July 19 1909. Ah me. I was reading this soon after dear little Paul died." [Paul = grandson of George Otto Trevelyan.]. This after a section of Caligula "quorum dou infa...George Otto Trevelyan Caius Suetonius TranquillusOpera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes in vols. I and II, including some copied from Lord Macaulay's copy of the text. Dates of reading include: "May 28 1917 Welcombe The most interesting military sto...George Otto Trevelyan Julius CaesarOpera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS notes, some of which are transcribed from those of Lord Macaulay in another edition: "Macaulay's notes and marginal lines (on the outside margins) are transferred...George Otto Trevelyan Cornelius TacitusOpera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes, some evidently copied from Lord Macaulay's own marginalia in another volume. On p.145 Sir George writes: "I used to think this very fine at school. It now seems...George Otto Trevelyan Sallust Opera omniaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johannes CocceiusOpera omnia theologicaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jacob RhenferdOpera philologica, dissertationibus exquisitissimi...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rene DescartesOpera PhilosophicaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gen. Robertson called and presented me with Hamley's Operations of War in which I am now drowned a thousand fathoms deep.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Bruce HamleyOperations of WarPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pietro MetastasioOperePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Giovanni BoccaccioOpere (vols I-IV (of 6))Print: Book
1700-1799'Have you seen two volumes called "Deism Revealed"? 'Tis a well written piece, and much approved here. I think it is not harsh against the religion of France; but scourge...Samuel Richardson Philip SkeltonOphiomaches: or, Deism RevealedManuscript: Unknown, MS of work Richardson printed
1700-1799"[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] once left the young W[ordsworth] in his study for a moment and returned to find him reading the Opticks."William Wordsworth Isaac NewtonOpticksPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Jacques Benigne BossuetOraisons FunebresPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Anne Damer, October 1798: 'Do you know that I have been working as hard at Greek for this week past as you could possibly desire? The parson who I mentione...Mary Berry Isocrates orationPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Anne Damer, October 1798: 'Do you know that I have been working as hard at Greek for this week past as you could possibly desire? The parson who I mentione...Mary Berry and parsonIsocrates orationPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 7 November 1837: 'Read Waldo Emerson's oration. Though fanciful, it has much truth and beauty. It moved, roused, soothed and consoled me.'Harriet Martineau Ralph Waldo EmersonorationPrint: Book


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