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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 Mr Jefferson's case to Edward [Austen], and he desires to have his name set down for a guinea and his wife's for another; but does not with for more than one...Jane Austen Revd T. JeffersonRequest for subscribers for "Two Sermons"Unknown
1800-1849'I have been most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a vast deal of good, & I hope you will send one of your most severe on...Charles Darwin Humphry DavyResearches, Chemical and PhilosophicalPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ Of endless woe complains/ Be mine in patient hope alo...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonResignationPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834: 'I heard of poor Drounieau's case in the Papers. I have read none of his verses, but was ...Robert Browning Gustave DrounieauResigneePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 28 June 1796: 'THE story of the Mysterious Mother is of an earlier date than the noble author imagined: it may be f...Robert Southey Joseph HallResolutions and Decisions of divers Practical Case...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, late January 1841: 'I have just read your reply to the Monthly Critic -- though not his attack'.Elizabeth Barrett Richard Hengist Horneresponse to article in the Monthly CriticManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [Johnson said] The little volumes entitled "Respublicae", which are very well done, were a bookseller's work'. Samuel Johnson RespublicaePrint: Book
1900-1945'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow...Ruth Slate Leo TolstoyResurrectionPrint: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were considered. Edward Little read a paper on his Life. ...Howard Smith Leo TolstoyResurrection, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter to Sarah Maclean, dated Monday 21 June 1824] Your being so fond of Cowper tells me half of your character- How passing sweet were solitude with such an one! "Well...Anne Lister William CowperRetirementPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.'George Gordon Lord Byron XenophonRetreat of the Ten ThousandPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- read the "Ten Thousand" again, and will go to bed.'George Gordon Lord Byron XenophonRetreat of the Ten ThousandPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read to Mrs ---- my last chapters of my first volume of "Retrospect." She says the book will do.'Harriet Martineau Harriet MartineauRetrospectUnknown
1800-1849'[A friend] one day desired to be allowed to see and criticise the first chapter of my [Harriet Martineau's] "Retrospect of Western Travel." I gave him the MS. at night;...anon Harriet MartineauRetrospect of Western TravelManuscript: Unknown
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1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Hester Lynch PiozziRetrospection: or A Review of the Most Striking an...Print: Book
1800-1849[Letter to M. Lawson dated Saturday 15 March 1823] I have no room for more about the Retrospective Review, than that I think it one of the best periodicals of the day. T...Anne Lister Retrospective ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Friday Jany 26th. [...] Read newspapers and Reviews [including Olliers Literary Miscellany in Prose and Verse no.1. (1820), and Retrospective Review II (1820)].'Claire Clairmont Retrospective Review vol. IIPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books & illustrations & R. H. Robson read from "Far from ...Helen Rawlings Thomas HardyReturn of the Native, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday 25th July. ?Return of the Soldier? - (Rebecca West). A very sad book. The hero is rather imbecile as interpreted by the woman character who tells the story.'...Gerald Moore Rebecca WestReturn of the SoldierPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aug. Jewish story'.Sarah Good Amy LevyReuben SachsPrint: Book


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