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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
 
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] John Stuart MillPrinciples of Political EconomyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'With his first wages Conrad bought a volume of Shakespeare, and at sea he also read Mill's "Principles of Political Economy".'Joseph Conrad John Stuart MillPrinciples of Political EconomyPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 6 February 1891: " ... I blush to say I haven't had freedom of mind or cerebral freshness ... to tackle -- more than dipping in here and the...Henry James William JamesPrinciples of PsychologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Spencer's Psychology'George Eliot [pseud] Herbert SpencerPrinciples of PsychologyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Having finished Spencer's Sociology we began Max MUller's Lectures on the Science of Language'.George Eliot and John CrossHerbert SpencerPrinciples of SociologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fit i) [i.e. Section 1] respectively'.Elizabeth Edminson Geoffrey ChaucerPrioress' TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'I find a copy of the "Prison Regulations" for December 1938: European rations total over three pounds daily and Japanese 2lbs 10oz. I give this in to the Committee as ev...Thomas Kitching [unknown]Prison RegulationsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Prisoner of Chillon &c. to Mrs G'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronPrisoner of Chillon, The, and other poemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all ...Sir Walter Raleigh Silvio PellicoPrisonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all ...Sir Walter Raleigh Silvio PellicoPrisonsPrint: 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 Constance LyttonPrisons and Prisoners: Some Personal ExperiencesPrint: Book
Marginal marks show signs of George Otto Trevelyan's close reading, as of a proof - he corrects errors, e.g. where the text says "many would prefer expatriating themselve...George Otto Trevelyan Sir Robert Thomas WilsonPrivate diary of travels, personal services, and p...Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (May 1823 [sic]): 'Do tell Captain Lyon that I, and others far better than I am, are enchanted with his book.'Lady Caroline Lamb Captain LyonPrivate Journal during the recent Voyage of Discov...Unknown
1800-1849'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and delivered me a little blue parcel, requiring for it a n...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von Goetheprivate letterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Mrs Hughes insists on the Confessions of a Sinner being republished with my name as she say it is the best story of that frightful kind that ever was written'.Mrs Hughes James HoggPrivate Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sin...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Louis Antoine Fauvelet de BourriennePrivate Memoirs of Napoleon BonapartePrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The Book Club members were evidently in no mood to aprec...Charles Stansfield George GissingPrivate Papers of Henry Rycroft, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832: 'I have the greatest pleasure in reading religious books. I find that I understand the Bible be...Harriet Countess Granville AdamsPrivate ThoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834): 'The anxiety of the last two months has given me an impossibility of feeling happy [...] The ...Harriet Countess Granville AdamsPrivate ThoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas AdamPrivate Thoughts on ReligionPrint: Book


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