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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
 
1700-1799Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a very civil Canonico Bandini, showed us the Virgil of ...Mary Berry Horace WorksManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horace were our main reading then'.Pupils at Mr Perry's schoolHorace  Print: Book
1700-1799Sir Henry Ellis to John Wilson Croker, from the British Museum, 29 October 1829: 'I understand from Mr. Murray that you are engaged [as editor] upon a "Life of Dr. Joh...Samuel Johnson Horace  Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both...Leonard Woolf Horace SatiresPrint: Book
1800-1849'My father said that he [...] received a good but not a regular classical education. At any rate he became an accurate scholar, the author "thoroughly drummed into" him b...Alfred Tennyson Horace  Print: Book
1850-1899MS notes and dates of reading include: "Top of Beamerside while electioneering at Melrose, July 6th, 1868"; p.40: "Weybridge 1872. St. George's Hill, returning from takin...George Otto Trevelyan Horace Works; ed by MacleanePrint: Book
1800-1849'Poetry and shoemaking were part of the daily round [for the young Anne Isabella Milbanke]; a grander ambition was taking shape. Translations from Horace [...] Three line...Anne Isabella Milbanke Horace  Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 August 1818: 'Yesterday evening Granville [husband], Hart [her brother, the Duke of Devonshire] a...Duke of Devonshire and Lord and Lady Granville (his brother-in-law and sister)Horace  Print: Book
1900-1945'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" M...Alfred Rawlings Horace The Art of PoetryPrint: 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 SmithHorace in LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
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'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected ...George Crabbe Horace SmithGaieties and Gravities; A Series of Sketches, Comi...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'.Sydney Smith Horace TwissLife of Lord Chancellor EldonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think I have already mentioned to you the Life of Ld Eldon by Horace Twiss. It is not badly done, and I think it would very much amuse Ld Grey as it is the history alm...Sydney Smith Horace TwissLife of Lord Chancellor EldonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 10 December 1844: 'I am glad I have so much interesting matter to look forward to in the Eldon memoirs, as Pincher's biography. I a...Elizabeth Barrett Horace TwissThe Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eld...Print: Book
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1850-1899		I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t...Edward Fitzgerald Horace WalpoleLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799' ... [The Mysterious Mother (1768)] was read aloud by Mr Smelt and Frances Burney in November 1786. Burney was horrified ...'Frances Burney and Leonard SmeltHorace WalpoleThe Mysterious MotherPrint: Book
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell Horace WalpoleThe Castle of Otranto: A Gothic StoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'If you like it try the "Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole. That is the best stilted romance style I know. "Well may the blood" says an expiring viscount to a peasan...Sir Walter Raleigh Horace WalpoleCastle of OtrantoPrint: Book
1850-1899[editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have re...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Horace WalpoleunknownPrint: Book


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