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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'In the forenoon read Liardets book on Seamanship, so as to prepare myself for the duties of 1st Lieut which I expect will only come too soon.'Albert Battiscombe Francis LiardetProfessional Recollections on points of Seamanship...Print: Book
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The...Reginald Robson Oliver Wendell HolmesProfessor at the Breakfast Table, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Charlotte BronteProfessor, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read the Professor, - I don't see the objections to its publication that I apprehended, - or at least only such, as the omissions of three or four short ppassages...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteProfessor, TheManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I dreaded lest the Prof: should involve anything with M. Heger - I had heard her say it related to her Brussels life, - & I thought if he were again brought before the p...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteProfessor, TheManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The Professor is curious as indicating strong character & rare faculties on the part of the author; but not interesting as a story. And yet there are parts one would not...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteProfessor, The
1900-1945'This moment I receive "Progress", or rather the moment (last night) occurred favorably to let me read before I sat down to write. Nothing in my writing life [...] has gi...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamProgress and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'A 28-line transcription in Wordsworth's hand appears in the Alfoxden Notebook (Dove Cottage MS 14) of a quotation from Richard Payne Knight's The Progress of Civil Socie...William Wordsworth Richard Payne KnightProgress of Civil Society, A Didactic Poem, TheUnknown
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 25, I dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, with the learned Dr. Musgrave, Counsellor Leland of Ireland, son to the historian, Mrs. Cholmondeley, a...Dr Musgrave Richard TickellProject, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 25, I dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, with the learned Dr. Musgrave, Counsellor Leland of Ireland, son to the historian, Mrs. Cholmondeley, a...Samuel Johnson Richard TickellProject, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 25 March 1819: 'Between 4 and 5 I read some of Kant's Prolegomena [...] went up to Palsgrave Pl...George Grote Immanuel KantProlegomenaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.George Eliot [pseud] Friedrich August WolfProlegomena ad HomerumPrint: 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 Jane HarrisonProlegomena to the Study of Greek ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon; I do not think he has given the right reasonings ...George Grote WolfProleg[omena] 'in Homer'Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 6 December 1822: 'Continued the perusal of Wolf's Prolegomena, which contains very much instruction as to the literature and MSS. of ant...George Grote WolfProleg[omena] 'in Homer'Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 7 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Read Wolf. My opinion of him not lessened; from some passages I think he is a Free- thinker, especially as t...George Grote WolfProleg[omena] 'in Homer'Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon Diod. Sicul., having previously cast my eye over ...George Grote WolfProleg[omena] 'in Homer'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power t...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydPrologue and Epilogue to poems of St GregoryUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Mary read the Prologue to Chaucer's tales to me in the morning.'Mary Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerPrologue to The Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 23 November 1793, on meeting Edward Jerningham ('the Charming Man') at a gathering at the home of their friend Anne Damer the previous eveni...Horace Walpole Edward JerninghamPrologue to The Siege of BerwickPrint: Newspaper


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