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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'[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burders Illustration of Scripture, one volume.'Benjamin Newton Samuel BurderOriental Customs: or an illustration of the sacredPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished second volume of Burder. Began Gibbon's account of his own life.'Benjamin Newton Samuel BurderOriental Customs:or an illustration of the sacredPrint: Book
1900-1945Even my little 'Oriente Moderno', the best paper on current Eastern affairs I know, is now becoming propagandist in a disguised way. The Abyssinian business makes m...Freya Stark unknownOriente ModernoPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The conversation went on about Darwin's "Origin of species", and F. said to S. "tha doesn't favour a monkey, but tha acts like one." R. said "I think he's bloody cracker...Charles DarwinOrigin of speciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'We began Darwin's work on "The Origin of Species" tonight. It seems not to be well written: though full of interesting matter, it is not impressive, for want of luminous...George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesCharles DarwinOrigin of Species, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'A little before this time I had been reading that entertaining little volume, Miss Taylor's "Original Poems for Children", one of which, "The Truant Boys", had particula...Thomas Carter Anne TaylorOriginal Poems for Infant MindsPrint: Book
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 10-11 December 1791: 'As I have nothing else to say take a story I read yesterday as a true one which strikes me as an instance of more...Robert Southey Mary WollstonecraftOriginal Stories from Real LifePrint: Book
1600-1699'and I to my chamber and there spent the night in reading my new book, "Origines Juridiciales", which pleases me. So to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys William DugdaleOrigines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and to read more in the Origines'Samuel Pepys William DugdaleOrigines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence back by water to Captain Cockes, and there he and I spent a great deal of the evening, as we had done the day, reading and discoursing over part of Mr Stillingfle...Samuel Pepys Edward StillingfleeteOrigines Sacrae, or A rational account of the grou...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward StillingfleetOrigines Sacrae, or a rational account of the grou...Print: Book
1800-1849Katherine Cockell to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 June 1843: 'I could not put Orion out of my hands for my needful food, -- nor out of my head for my more needful sleep. I ...Katherine Cockell Richard Hengist HorneOrionPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 7 July 1843: 'Mr Kenyon was with me yesterday, and praised "Orion" most admiringly. He had read it only in parts yet, thr...John Kenyon Richard Hengist HorneOrionPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 7 August 1843: 'I heard of Orion the other day being admired at the first glance, & carried away to be admired at leisure...Anna Brownell Jameson Richard Hengist HorneOrionPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 December 1843: 'I must not forget to thank you for your recommendation of "Orion" -- I have read it again & again, & like it...Thomas Westwood Richard Hengist HorneOrionPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to Richard Hengist Horne, 15 December 1847: 'You will have thought me strangely tardy in acknowledging your courteous present, but th...Charlotte Bronte Richard Hengist HorneOrionPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin Virginia WoolfOrlandoPrint: Book
1900-1945'It seems to me the loveliest, wisest, richest book that I have ever read, - excelling even your own Lighthouse.'Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfOrlandoManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'He [a friend] took me to a bar which he said was quite respectable, but the proprietor showed me pornographic photographs, which are things I absolutely loathe and abhor...Harold Nicolson Virginia WoolfOrlandoUnknown
1900-1945'I came in just now, having been to Wertheim's to buy a pair of gloves for 4 marks, and meant to go on with my story of the bank clerk who loses his memory, but having st...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfOrlandoPrint: Book


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