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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
 
1800-1849We visited the church of San Pietro on the brow of the hill on which Perugia is situated; it contains many interesting pictures,.... I remarked a lovely little picture in...Susan Horner Johann David PassavantRaffael von Urbino und sein Vater Giovanni SantiPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as possible [...] the result of "Ragged Lady", the "Silver...Henry James William Dean HowellsRagged LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899

[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 14 May 1854:]


'I took the time of the Leeds-Keighley-Skipton trains from Mr Clapham's Feby Time-Table and when I go...

Charlotte Bronte Railway timetable for February [?1854]Print: Timetable
1900-1945'According to Florrie [his mother] Dylan taught himself to read from second-rate comics such as "Rainbow"'.Dylan Thomas RainbowPrint: Serial / periodical, comic
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff RainbowPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Merrygreek and E B Smith Custance Charles E. Stansfield Nicholas UdallRalph Roister DoisterPrint: Book
1900-1945The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Merrygreek and E B Smith Custance Thomas C. Elliott Nicholas UdallRalph Roister DoisterPrint: Book
1900-1945The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Merrygreek and E B Smith Custance Edith B. Smith Nicholas UdallRalph Roister DoisterPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 January 1751: 'I was sorry the other day to see a Rambler (though a good one) upon Milton, because the author has been much ce...Catherine Talbot [N/A] RamblerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me with, yet I have not had time to read any farther th...Samuel Richardson Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays'Mary Godwin Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical, could have been original periodicals or later collected volumes
1800-1849'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler'Mary Shelley Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addiso...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book
1800-1849'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn? One of our friends, well read in Johnson, told me ...Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Mrs Johnson, in whose judgement and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of "The Rambler" had come out, "I thought very well of you before; bu...Elizabeth Johnson Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I profess myself to have ever had a profound veneration for the astonishing force and vivacity of mind which "The Rambler" exhibits [Boswell then talks at length of the ...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'["Rambler"] No 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicism, as the Sun of Revelation is brighter than the twi...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I have seen some volumes of Dr Young's copy of "The Rambler", in which he has marked the pasages which he thought particularly excellent, by folding down a corner of the...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I have seen some volumes of Dr Young's copy of "The Rambler", in which he has marked the pasages which he thought particularly excellent, by folding down a corner of the...Edward Young Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when the great work was announced in the newspapers as n...Charles Burney Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical


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