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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'Went up for a short time into library, and read in "Oration of Lysias". [quotes Greek text]'William Windham ThucydidesOration of LysiasPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829: 'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles. The ...Elizabeth Barrett St BasilOration on BarlaamPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829: 'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles. The ...Elizabeth Barrett St BasilOration on GordiusPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious notes and dates of reading, incl. Dec 1918, Sept 1921. Trevelyan transcribes the dates when Macaulay also read Demosthenes (1836, 1837). Several references to the...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes Orationes publicae; ed. by G.H. Heslop ... The Oly...Print: Book
1850-1899' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt...Constance Maynard Washington IrvingOrationsPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. October 20th, 1831: "Was in Mr. Boyd’s room before nine. Heard him say over the passages in the Prometheus, & read Gregory. He told me that he had a great ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus OrationsPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. September 26th, 1831: "We read another passage from Gregory’s Apologia — not a very fine one. Then we read the exordium of The Orations against Julian. It ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus Orations against JulianPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Friday Night,' December 1829: 'I have read the seven orations on Paul, & the eighth one on the same subject [goes on briefly ...Elizabeth Barrett St Chrysostomorations including (probably) Homily on 1 Corinthi...Print: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Wystan Hugh AudenOrators, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Ordeal by battle by F. S. Oliver (very interesting).'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Frederick Scott OliverOrdeal by BattlePrint: Book
1900-1945'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Frederick Scott OliverOrdeal by BattlePrint: Book
1900-1945‘Distant from us by 300 yards … snipers were continually firing, and rockets … lit up the night outside … we had two days like that, and played Auction Bridge, talked...Ivor Bertie Gurney Frederick Scott OliverOrdeal by BattlePrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading "Ordeal of War"—Oliver most interesting & instructive, also Report of committee on Belgian atrocities[.] Dined with Richmond at the Club.'Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar Frederick Scott OliverOrdeal by BattlePrint: Book
1800-1849From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'I remember remarking to my mother on the impiety of the service, when a copy of it was kindly sent to me...Harriet Martineau Order of Queen Victoria's coronation servicePrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899"I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan."Leslie Stephen Robert Louis StevensonOrdered SouthPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I am glad you have been reading Euripedes. I have looked at the passages you referred me to, in my Euripede...Elizabeth Barrett Euripedes OrestesPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:] 'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian translation of Euripides. -- A pretty good one, I f...Catherine Talbot Euripides OrestesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion...George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoOrfeoPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay AristotleOrganonPrint: Book
1500-1599'In 1568 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased a copy of Aristotle's "Organon"; in 1572 he was given a copy of Aristotle's "Rhetoric". Both Greek texts were copiously annotated and ...Gabriel Harvey Aristotle OrganonPrint: Book


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