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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'The Dr [Brewster] stopped to tell me that he had got a paper on Chemistry written (in French) by Berzelius, professor of that science in Stockholm - which was to be publ...Thomas Carlyle Baron Jacob BerzeliusExamination of some compounds which depend upon ve...Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'The Duke and Duchess [of Argyll] spent some days at Farringford [...] My father [...] read aloud his "Boadicea," which he had now quite finished.'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonBoadiceaManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... books on theologyPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... books on metaphysicsPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... history booksPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... books on belle lettresPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be... books on sciencePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questions in theology and metaphysics, books on history, be...Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849'The Dying Christian' 'Christianity rears its trophies on the tomb, treasure up then these best of stanzas in the heart' 'Spirit--leave thine house of clay!/...' [ll. 11-...Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxJames MontgomeryVerses to the Memory of the Late Joseph BrownUnknown
1700-1799'The Earl of Carlisle having written a tragedy, entitled "The Father's Revenge", some of his Lordship's friends applied to Mrs. Chapone to prevail on Dr. Johnson to read ...Samuel Johnson Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of CarlisleFather's Revenge, TheManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The earliest of his extant volumes is a copy of Livy's "Roman History" which bears the date "November 1868" when Wilde was still at Portora. It is full of marginal notes...Oscar Wilde LivyRoman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeby it is certain is never to be in, but it is still r...James Hogg Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeby it is certain is never to be in, but it is still r...James Hogg Scotish ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeby it is certain is never to be in, but it is still r...James Hogg Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The Edinr Review is out some time ago; and the 'State of German Literature' has been received with considerable surprise and approbation by the Universe. Thus for insta...Thomas Carlyle Thomas de QuinceyReview of 'State of German Literature'Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
'The editor of the British Weekly, [William] Robertson Nicoll, wrote to [Marie] Corelli on 3 November 1920: "I always think of you in connexion with my old friend Dr Park...Joseph Parker Marie CorellinovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The elections are coming on, and Paris is full of the strangest manifestoes from this or the other candidate. Some − mostly the Republicans − simply state th...Robert Louis Stevenson  Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Newspaper, Pamphlet, Poster
1800-1849'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown][Linnaean botany book]Print: Book
1800-1849'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I...Elizabeth Missing Sewell George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book


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