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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'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] ...Eleanor Papillon James and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Eugene LabaumeRelation circonstanci?e de la campagne de RussiePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Eugene LabaumeRelation circonstanciee de la campagne de Russie
1700-1799'I have been told that this very method was proposed in the "Gentleman's Magazine" many years ago, but have not the book on board. Frezier, in his voyage to the South Se...Joseph Banks Amedee Francois FrezierRelation d'un voyage de la Mer du Sud aux cotes du...Print: Book
1700-1799'We had also that fish described by Frezier in his voyage to Spanish South America by the name of "elefant, pejegallo" or "poisson coq" which, though coarse, we made shif...Joseph Banks Amedee Francois FrezierRelation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux c?tes du ...Print: Book
1700-1799'[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] recalled that W[ordsworth] read [George Sandys, Relation of a Journey Begun 1610] in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library.'William Wordsworth George SandysRelation of a Journey Begun 1610. Foure Bookes. ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish copying the Cenci'Mary Shelley [unknown]Relazione della morte famiglia Cenci sequita in Ro...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Religio Medici aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 May 1756:] 'I have not seen Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, but your recommendation of it [in letter of 7 May 1756] wil...Elizabeth Carter Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just been reading a little of the "Religio Medici". Just at the beginning he is talking about the Mysteries of Religion, and how he loves to lose himself in one...Emily Lytton Thomas, Sir BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am still in the hospital and expect to be for at least two days more … Just now I don’t know where I can keep books. I have with me Donne’s poems and Brown’s “Reli...Isaac Rosenberg Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so back home again, all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, call[ed] "The Virtuoso or The Stoicke", proposing many things paradoxicall to our common opin...Samuel Pepys George MackenzieReligio Stoici, with a friendly addresse to the ph...Print: Book
1800-1849'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Pal...James Lackington Stephanie de GenlisReligion considered as the only Basis of Happiness...Print: Book
1700-1799'Began, and read the first section of, Wollaston's "Religion of Nature"...'Thomas Green William WollastonReligion of Nature delineatedPrint: Book
1700-1799'[italics] Wollaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, tho' frequently intermingled with Mathematical Proofs, is yet so plain, that it demonstrates the Autho...Laetitia Pilkington William WollastonReligion of Nature Delineated, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr [italics] Woolaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, shews us powerfully, how much a Lye offends the Creator; as I am tax'd with numerous Quotations, wh...Laetitia Pilkington William WoolastonReligion of Nature Delineated, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'We were talking of people who read awkwardly not knowing what they were about: Mr Johnson protested he knew two Lads at Pembroke who lived in the same department and one...William ChillingworthReligion of Protestants a Safe Way to SalvationPrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington Madame de GenlisReligion the only Basis of Happiness and true Phil...Print: Book


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