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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'[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge PlatoParmenidesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833: 'Just at this moment I am busy with Plato, trying to find out from the Parmenides what [italics]one[end i...Elizabeth Barrett Plato ParmenidesPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft," a book which always le...George Grote Plato ParmenidesPrint: Book
1800-1849'The reason for my not mentioning the History of Bremhill was this. I had not read at that time more than a very few pages: I knew nothing of Wansdike, nothing of Tanhill...George Crabbe William Lisle BowlesParochial History of Bremhill, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Saturday Night,' 2 August 1828: 'I have not gone [italics]thro'[end italics] the Parriana yet. I have been extremely amused by...Elizabeth Barrett E.H. BarkerParriana; or, Notices of the Rev. Samuel Parr, col...Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewespart of the MS of his Life of GoetheManuscript: Unknown, MS of book
1600-1699'Parthenissa is now my company[,] my Brother sent it downe and I have almost read it, tis hansome Language you would know it to bee writt by a person of good Quality thou...Dorothy Osborne Roger BoyleParthenissaPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 April 1760:] 'As you was, upon the whole, I believe, very determined to go into the country [following visit to Talbot 'on Tu...Catherine Talbot Roger BoyleParthenissaPrint: Book
1500-1599'On sig. A2 of "A New Letter of Notable Contents" (1593) [Gabriel] Harvey refers to [Barnabe Barnes, "Parthenophil and Parthenophe" as one of the recently-read books rece...Gabriel Harvey Barnabe BarnesParthenophil and Parthenope. Sonnettes, madrigals...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.

[...] ...		Francis E. Pollard Francis E. PollardParty PoliticsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'Madame Bodin is a mere Madame. Poor & weak. I read two of her books -- Savinie -- and Stenia, .. which ...Elizabeth Barrett Camille BodinPascaline et SaviniePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] June [1914]. Life's Trivial Round
White Linen Nurse. Most bits rubbish
A passage perilous
Prisons & prisoners (suffragists)'		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Rosa Nouchette CareyPassage Perilous, APrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pol...Francis Pollard Edward Morgan ForsterPassage to India, APrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pol...R.B. Graham Edward Morgan ForsterPassage to India, APrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pol...Elizabeth Marriage Edward Morgan ForsterPassage to India, APrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pol...Rosamund Wallis Edward Morgan ForsterPassage to India, APrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include five extracts from letters of Ibsen, noted as 'Copied from some notes made for lecturing on I[bse...Edward Morgan Forster Henrik Ibsenpassages from The Correspondence of Henrik IbsenManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been unexpectedly interested - unexpectedly as to degree - in my old friend Babbage's "Passages in the Life &c". I dare say you read it, and half forgot it, month...Harriet Martineau Charles BabbagePassages from the Life of a PhilosopherPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you know a little book written by a daughter of Sir Jas Stephens, called 'Passages in the life of a Daughter at Home'? It is very painful, and from the impression of ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Caroline Emelia StephenPassages in the life of a Daughter at HomePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.George Eliot [pseud] Samuel BamfordPassages in the Life of a RadicalPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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