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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
 
1800-1849Monday, 14 January 1828: 'I read Cooper's new novel work, the Red Rover; the current of the [novel] rolls entirely upon the Ocean. Something there is too much of nauti...Walter Scott CooperRed RoverPrint: Book
1900-1945'About 3.30, C.M.G. came striding in, resplendent in full Highland rig-out ... He had a number of MSS with him and read part of his "Red Scotland", which sounded quite co...Christopher Murray Grieve Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.]Red ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'His novels rather date, but his essays are vivid and stimulating. Red Trousers comes to the mind as being real hot stuff.' D H LawrenceRed TrousersPrint: Book
1800-1849I have been in the shop all day and during the intervals of business reading Scott's novel of RedgauntletAdam Mackie Walter ScottRedgauntletPrint: Book
1800-1849'I ought to have thanked you for "Redgauntlet" a fortnight ago, but I stayed to read it, and then to read it again. It has taken my fancy very particularly, though (not t...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottRedgauntletPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this l...George Gissing Walter ScottRedgauntletPrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Walter ScottRedgauntletPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and...C.H. Rolph RefereePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to B. R. Haydon, 21 December 1815: 'Have you read the works of the Abbe [Johann Joachim] Winkelman on the study of the Antique, in Painting and Sculptu...William Wordsworth Johann Joachim WinkelmanReflections concerning the imitation of the Grecia...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, September 1827: 'I am [...] obliged to you for sending me your work on the Atonement [...] I have read your book with sincere re...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydReflections on the Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Chri...Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'George Eliot [pseud] Edmund BurkeReflections on the Revolution in FrancePrint: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 8 November 1790: 'In this country the stock of the National Assembly is fallen down to bankruptcy [...] the fatal blow has been at last give...Horace Walpole Edmund BurkeReflections on the Revolution in FrancePrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'While walking to Hampstead, I strayed into a copse not far from my road, where I seated myself upon the trunk of a tree, and read, with no small pleasure, several of the...Thomas Carter Christoph Christian SturmReflections on the Works of God and of His Provide...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:] 'Have you seen the reflections, maxims, and characters moral and satirical? Amusing, I think, and not bad; writ ...Catherine Talbot Fulke GrevilleReflections, maxims, and characters, moral, critic...Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 3 May 1756:] 'I had read an extract from that book which you say is writ by Mr Greville, and concluded it must be a translation ...Elizabeth Carter Fulke GrevilleReflections, maxims, and characters, moral, critic...Unknown
1800-1849"The longer you are married, the better you will like it & then I hope you will show proper gratitude to your adviser - not but that you will also heretically deny his in...Leslie Stephen Francois de La RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Some time ago, I bought me a copy of La Rochefoucault. It has been said that the basis of his system is the supposition of selflove being the motive of all our actions. ...Thomas Carlyle Francois VI, Duc de La RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Anch'io have been reading La Rochefaucould [sic] - and he has furnished me with an excellet Motto for my third Volume - And what is more to the purpose, with some entert...Sarah Harriet Burney Francois de la RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook James ThoringtonRefraction of the Human Eye and Methods of Estimat...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have this day despatched to you in two book packets, a copy of "The Regent". You may take it positively from me that this book is all right. I have read nearly all o...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettRegent, TheManuscript: manuscript of new novel (typescript?)


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