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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
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig...anon religious magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Your poems I shall procure forthwith. There were noble lines in what you inserted in one of your Numbers from Religious Musings, but I thought them elaborate. I am som...Charles Lamb Samuel Taylor ColeridgeReligious MusingsPrint: Serial / periodical, Extracts from poems in periodical.
1700-1799
1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson religious tractsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799"Samuel Johnson ... annotated a copy of a religious work in 1755 so he could exchange views with a woman he loved, Hill Boothby."Samuel Johnson religious workPrint: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.George Darwin (ed.) Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] Thomas Percy (ed.)Reliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my chil...Mary Russell Mitford Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849'he does not like any poetry except Percy's Ancient ballads and Shelley's translation of Homer's Hymn to mercury and the Cyclops - but he likes romances any marvellous ta...Percy Shelley Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849''Friday Sept. 15th. [...] Read Irish Poetry translated by Miss Brooke'. Claire Clairmont Charlotte BrookeReliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poe...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. 20th. [...] Read Miss Brooke's Irish poetry. [...] '[...] finish Miss Brooke's Irish poetry'. [goes on to reproduce passages from the following ...Claire Clairmont Charlotte BrookeReliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poe...Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Miss J-B-] I have just been looking over the fifth volume of poor Burns. it contains much that he would have been sorry to imagine before the public eye; but ...Elizabeth Hamilton R.H. CromekReliques of Robert Burns Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard BaxterReliquiae BaxterianaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard BaxterReliquiae Baxterianae & cPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard BaxterReliquiae Baxterianae & cPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard BaxterReliquiae Baxterianae & cPrint: Book
1800-1849'For my private and sole use, seeing that my friends had no taste for poetry, I bought Mr. Pye's translation of Horace, and was well pleased with my purchase; for I found...Thomas Carter Henry Kirk WhiteRemainsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Mary Berry, Journal, 23 November 1807: 'In Madame Neckar's ridiculous Remains, published by her husband, are some of the very best rules and advice for the manners and co...Mary Berry Madame NeckarRemainsPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains. I have read partly Newman's Apologia; he seems to m...Leonard Woolf Hurrell FroudeRemainsPrint: Book


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