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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'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] '.Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriPurgatorio (Cantos 11 and 12)Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday May 20th. Read 13th. 14th. 15th. & 16th Cantos of Dante's Purgatorio.'Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriPurgatorio (Cantos 13, 14, 15, 16)Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday May 17th. [...] Read 5th. 6th. 7th. & 8 Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriPurgatorio (Cantos 5, 6, 7, 8)Print: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday May 18th. [...] Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriPurgatorio (Cantos 9 and 10)Print: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's w...James Glass Bertram George L. CraikPursuit of knowledge under difficultiesPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A contemptible heap of rant & twaddle'" and "'Noisome ped...Thomas Babington Macaulay T. J. MathiasPursuits of LiteraturePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished, with much interest, the "Pursuits of Literature"...'Thomas Green Thomas James MathiasPursuits of LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding George Bernard ShawPygmalionPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Adam WeishauptPythagorasPrint: Book
1700-1799'I begin with telling you, that you have a true notion of the Alcoran, concerning which, the Greek priests (who are the greatest scoundrels in the universe) have invented...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Qu'ranPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Claudius ClaudianusQuae exstant operaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I was getting a lot of stiff reading out of the public library, now, "for my father". One work was "Quain's Anatomy" in two volumes. The first volume was anatomy and phy...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Quain's AnatomyPrint: Book
1600-1699'Rereading, some twenty years later, correspondence from the 1650s collected at Swarthmore Hall, [George] Fox crossed out passages he now deemed inappropriate ...'George Fox Quaker correspondenceManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The...members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]Quaker StoriesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding J.M. BarrieQuality StreetPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 March 1814: 'Redde the "Quarrels of Authors" ... a new work, by that most entertaining and researching writer, Israel...George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac DisraeliQuarrels of AuthorsPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 22 May [1819]: 'I have deferred thanking your Lordship for your kind attention in sending me (through the hands of Col: Lowther) the ...William Wordsworth Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of the French papers chooses to tell me, -- or the adv...George Gordon Lord Byron Quarterly ReviewPrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 4 November 1820: 'I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The last Quarterly contained a dishonest and offensive attack upon me by an American journalist, whom I dimly remember as an employe of Blorrity years ago when I refused...J.E.C. Bodley Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical


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