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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
1800-1849		Mary Berry, in letter of 2 January 1800: 'I have been reading [...] a new novel of Godwin's, in four vols., called "The Travels of St. Leon." it is an odd work, like all...Mary Berry William GodwinSt LeonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Mary Berry, Journal, 23 November 1807: 'In Madame Neckar's ridiculous Remains, published by her husband, are some of the very best rules and advice for the manners and co...Mary Berry Madame NeckarRemainsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Seward had been reading a five-volume edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters, and she had confessed her irritation with Lady Mary's avowed contempt for Pope' [s...Anna Seward Mary Wortley Montagu[Letters]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward John Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward Mark Akenside[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward Erasmus Darwin[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward Thomas Gray[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethi...Anna Seward Alexander PopeSatiresPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethi...Anna Seward Alexander Pope[Ethic Epistles]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethi...Anna Seward Alexander PopeDunciadPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethi...Anna Seward Alexander PopeEssay on ManPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'When Erasmus Darwin espouses the late-century opinion that "poetry admits of few abstract terms", Seward replies, "poetry that is merely imaginative and picturesque may ...Anna Seward Alexander PopeRape of the Lock, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Uvedale Price to Mary Berry,18 December 1813, discussing the importance of association and the physical senses in aesthetics: 'Fitzpatrick, in that exquisite poem I once ...Uvedale Price Fitzpatrick[metaphysical] poemUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		Mary Berry, Journal, October 23 1821: 'Went on a visit to Sir John and Lady Oswald. Sir John had given me a collection of his grandfather's letters to Ministers and seve...Mary Berry OswaldLetters to ministers and 'distinguished persons', ...Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799
1800-1849		Mary Berry, Journal, 2 January 1822, during stay at Guy's Cliff: 'Mrs Siddons read "Othello," the two parts of Iago and Othello quite [italics]a merveille[end italics].'Sarah Siddons William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Mary Berry, Journal, 28 August 1823: 'Loitered in the garden with Car. [Hon. Mrs Scott, novelist], and read the MS. which she gave me.'Mary Berry Hon Mrs C. ScottMSManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Miss Berry [...] told me [Harriet Martineau] how she found on her table, on her return from a ball, a volume of plays [Joanna Baillie's "Plays on the Passions"]; and how...Mary Berry Joanna BailliePlays on the PassionsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Written on end papers of manuscript book of Dawson's diary] 'this book was Read with much Interest by me May 1864, the Stags herein must be the Present Bell & Dragon. Fr...Francis Cain John DawsonJohn Dawson's Diary, Volume One, 1722-30, 1731-40.Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799
1800-1849		'No private reading except a little in "Eusebia de Praeparatio Evangelica"'. John Jones EusebiusDe Praeparatio EvangelicaPrint: Book


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