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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'I have read Reginald with great care and with great interest. It is a masterly work upon the whole, particularly in stile grouping and plot. In these its excellencies li...James Hogg John Gibson LockhartReginald DaltonPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emanuel SwedenborgRegnum animale anatomice, physice et philosophicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Rehearsal'Mary Shelley George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham VilliersRehearsal, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. If it was intended to be like a particular man, it co...James Boswell George Villiers, Second Duke of BuckinghamRehearsal, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. If it was intended to be like a particular man, it co...Samuel Johnson George Villiers, Second Duke of BuckinghamRehearsal, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the force of Ridicule! - on the contrary my dearest replies ...Hester Lynch Thrale George Villiers, 2nd Duke of BuckinghamRehearsal, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the force of Ridicule! - on the contrary my dearest replies ...Samuel Johnson George Villiers, 2nd Duke of BuckinghamRehearsal, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Began "Reineke Fuchs"'George Eliot [pseud] Johan Wolfgang von GoetheReineke FuchsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Last week I perused von Buch's "travels in Norway & Lapland". Much of his attention is devoted to Mineralogy, of which I am very ignorant, and his movements are sometime...Thomas Carlyle Christian Leopold, Baron von BuchReise durch Norwegen und LapplandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday May 5th. [...] Begin Reise durch Italien von J. J. Garning [sic].' [further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for 6, 7, 10, 11, 22 May 1821]Claire Clairmont Johann Isaac von GerningReise durch Oesterreich und ItalienPrint: Book
1850-1899'... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the journeys ... by studying that language with a copy of t...Oscar Wilde Reise-BilderPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t...George Eliot and G.H. LewesHeinrich HeineReisebilderPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Carl Philipp MoritzReisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Percy Bysshe Shelley Carl Philipp MoritzReisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Travels before the flood'Mary Shelley Friedrich Maximilian von KlingerReisen vor der SundfluthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Travels before the flood'Mary Shelley Friedrich Maximilian von KlingerReisen vor der SundfluthPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the...George Crabbe Horace SmithRejected AddressesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little about them & expressed my hope of their having amuse...Jane Austen James and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little about them & expressed my hope of their having amuse...Mrs Digweed James and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor has recommended it most warmly to them. - [italics] ...Papillon FamilyJames and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book


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