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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
 
1700-1799'In the even read part of Beveridge's "Thoughts".'Thomas Turner William BeveridgePrivate thoughts upon religion digested into twelv...Print: Book
1850-1899'May 2nd. [1866] Marlborough [...] In the evening the Bradleys had a large dinner-party. [George] Bradley [headmaster] knowing my father's love of science had asked maste...Alfred Tennyson Pupils at Marlborough College Prize PoemsUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 31 March 1793: 'On Wednesday morning about eight o clock we sallied forth. my travelling equipage consisting of my diary — writing book...Robert Southey John MiltonPro Populo Anglicano Defensio Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the oration for Roscius amerinus'Mary Shelley CiceroPro Roscio AmerinoPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd'Mary Shelley CiceroPro Roscio ComoedoPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a corollary text, Rose discovered the rousing, hopeful wor...Rose Macaulay John Stuart Millprobably 'On Liberty'Print: Book
1600-1699The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu...John Taylor Miguel de Cervantesprobably Don QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read... two first vols. of Vehse. Called at Vehse's for the other volumes'.George Eliot [pseud] Karl Eduard Vehseprobably Geschichte der deutschen H?fe seit der Re...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have read aloud my death-cycles from Walt Whitman this evening. I was very much affected myself, never so much before, and it fetched the auditory considerable. Readin...Robert Louis Stevenson Walt Whitmanprobably Leaves of GrassPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t...George Eliot and G.H. LewesJames Boswellprobably Life of JohnsonPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Story of Lancashire cotton famine[/]American War'Sarah Good Jessie FothergillProbation: A NovelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
...		Albert Ruskin Cook John Edgar McFadyenProblem of Pain: A Study in the Book of JobPrint: Book
1900-1945Considerable textual marginalia in English throughout.Vernon Lee William BatesonProblems of GeneticsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Eleanor in great pain. Very brave but collapsed—throat ghastly. O Henry ... no good as a pick-me-up. Tried gramophone—better ... One feels so isolated all alone wi...Mary Franeis Butts Bertrand RussellProblems of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Betrand Russell all morning, wrote, ate apples—applied more work NCCL [National Council for Civil Liberties]. 2 o'clock met John [Rodker]. Walked to Dorking. ...Mary Franeis Butts Bertrand RussellProblems of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the "exercises" of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old students of all ages. They begin by some distinguished pers...Leslie Stephen Proceedings of the PBKPrint: Proceedings
1800-1849" ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth]. Aware of W[ordsworth]'s interest in the Convent...William Wordsworth unknownProceedings upon the Inquiry relative to the Armis...Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'.George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaProcessiPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The evening being bright and moonlight and very still, we all went out, and walked through the whole village, where not a creature moved; — through the principal l...Prince Louis of Hesse anonproclamationPrint: Broadsheet, Poster
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emanuel SwedenborgProdomus PhilosophiaePrint: Book


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