Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   781 782 783 784 785  786  787 788 789 790 791   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Pu...Mary Shelley LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio'Mary Shelley LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Fininsh [sic] Lucan's Pharsalia'Mary Shelley LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 December 1827: 'I [italics]have[end italics] read the Pharsalia; & am very glad that you do not join in the classical [italics...Elizabeth Barrett Lucan PharsaliaPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne's translation of Lucan, Pharsalia, IV.519-20.Elizabeth Lyttelton LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Alfred Rawlings Robert BrowningPheidippidesPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Professor Josiah Royce, 30 June 1911: 'I snatch too hurried a moment to express to you my great appreciation of your so generous and luminous treatment of ...Henry James Josiah RoycePhi Beta address on the work and influence of Will...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Pu...Anne Romilly [n/a]Philanthropist, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy'Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis BeaumontPhilaster, or Love Lies BleedingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philaster'Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis BeaumontPhilaster; or Love lyes a-bleedingPrint: Book
1700-1799'I also received great benefits from reading Coventry's Philemon to Hydaspes; it consists of dialogues on false religion, extravagant devotion, etc. in which are many ver...James Lackington Henry CoventryPhilemon to Hydaspes: or the history of false reli...Print: Book
1700-1799Bought... sugar at Cossen's, 2 vols of Dr Clark's exposition of the 4 Evengellists (cost 10s), sermons by Dr Stanhope. Cost 5s. Mother paid half of that... Read Philip o...Gertrude Savile David LewisPhilip of Macedon: A Tragedy. As it is acted at thPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson Philip QuarllPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Philip Stanley - very stupid'.Mary Godwin Charles Brockden BrownPhilip Stanley; or, the Enthusiasm of LovePrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield...		Edgar Castle John MasefieldPhilip the KingUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield...		Mignon Castle John MasefieldPhilip the KingUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield...		Mary Pollard John MasefieldPhilip the KingUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield...		Howard Smith John MasefieldPhilip the KingUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds John MasefieldPhilip the KingUnknown
1800-1849'By a quaint coincidence I received your letter directed (I suppose) by Phillip van Artevelde with Philip himself (not the man but the book) and I wish to tell you that I...Alfred Tennyson Henry TaylorPhilip van ArteveldePrint: Book


Go to page: [1]   781 782 783 784 785  786  787 788 789 790 791   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design