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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'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 3 October 1755: 'I met with some lines the other day in a translation of a famous Italian poet, which in a few expres...Margaret Collier AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Herman Merivale, [January 1814]: 'I have redde Roncesvaux with very great pleasure ... You have written a very noble poem ... your measure is uncommonly wel...George Gordon Lord Byron John Herman MerivaleOrlando in RoncesvallesManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache'George Eliot [pseud] Anthony TrollopeOrley FarmPrint: Book
1850-1899This evening Charley has read to us the 12th No. of "Orley Farm", which is interesting so far as it pursues the main path of the story - the fortunes of Lady Mason'.Charles Lewes Anthony TrollopeOrley FarmPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Dream of being at court of Louis XV, in consequence of reading "Ormond".'John Ruskin Maria EdgeworthOrmondPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Charles Brockden BrownOrmond; or, The Secret Witness
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 1st. Read Ormond.' Claire Clairmont Charles Brockden BrownOrmond; or, the Secret WitnessPrint: Book
1900-1945'The natives call it Juancito—Little Jack, and all we have about is habits is a note by the bird collector Stolzmann, quoted by L. Jaczanski, in his third volume (O...William Henry Hudson Wadyslaw TaczanowskiOrnithologie du PérouPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday 30th June. ?Orphan Island? ? (Rose Macaulay). Looked after the infants today while Teddie went to work. Then a walk in the evening and bringing my arrears ...Gerald Moore Rose MacaulayOrphan IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 1st July This has been one of those demoralising days when a late rising leaves one unable to make any use of the shortened day. We should have gone to see Da...Gerald Moore Rose MacaulayOrphan IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell,...Joan Evans Salomon ReinachOrpheus:A History of ReligionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thank your kind friend and host for his little Book, great part of which I read that afternoon: but my Mother got it and carried it down with her, she seemed to so anxio...Thomas Carlyle Edward IRvingOrthodox and Catholic Doctrine of Our Lord's Human...Print: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.

1. Minutes of last meeting were read and signed.

[...] 		Margaret Dilks G. K. ChestertonOrthodoxyPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927 include Oscar Browning's reflections, quoted in H. E. Wortham's biography of him, on the potential of th...Edward Morgan Forster H. E. WorthamOscar BrowningPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book, written by a man who is a curious mixture of impuls...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisOscar Wilde: His Life and ConfessionsPrint: Book
1700-1799"In June 1797, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote to Mary Hutchinson, telling her that, as soon as [S. T.] C[oleridge] arrived at Racedown Lodge, 'he repeated to us two acts an...Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel Taylor ColeridgeOsorioManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Coleridge has written a tragedy — by request of Sheridan. it is uncommonly fine — tho every charact...Robert Southey S.T. ColeridgeOsorioUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 6 October 1797: 'Coleridge has so far compleated his tragedy that he has only the task of correcting it to perform. he passed thro Bath & rea...Samuel Taylor Coleridge S.T. ColeridgeOsorioManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'George Eliot [pseud] Marco LastriOsservatore FiorentinoPrint: Book


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