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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power t...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydTranslation from Sophocles' ElectraUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, September 1827: 'I am [...] obliged to you for sending me your work on the Atonement [...] I have read your book with sincere re...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydReflections on the Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Chri...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 3 November 1827: 'You have extremely obliged me by lending me your Select Translations, -- passages from which, I have repeate...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydSelect Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Saturday Night,' 2 August 1828: 'It is late for me to be writing, -- but I have this moment received your elegy, -- & I do not ...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart Boyd'elegy'Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 26-27 September 1828: 'On opening your book to look for Joan of Arc, I came upon your translation of the beautiful episode in th...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydThoughts on an Illustrious ExilePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829: 'I never learnt anything about the rule [...] of the Greek Article, -- except what I learnt from [italics]you[end it...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart Boydnotes to the AgamemnonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829: 'I never learnt anything about the rule [...] of the Greek Article, -- except what I learnt from [italics]you[end it...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart Boyd'Essay on the Greek Article'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Tuesday Evening,' October 1829: 'With regard to your treatise on Geology, I will say nothing about the science of it, for fear ...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart Boyd'treatise on Geology'Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, Monday 28 December 1829, thanking him for his epitaph on a cat, and following critical appraisal of it: 'You told me never to re...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydGreek epitaph 'On the death of a favourite Tom Cat...Manuscript: Unknown
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1800-1849		Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthi...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydAnnotations to St Chrysostom, 'In Epistolarum prim...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 31 March 1847: 'Thank you for the dear welcome letters [...] Tell [Arabel] to thank Mr Boyd for his kind one -...Robert Browning Hugh Stuart Boydletter to Elizabeth Barrett BrowningManuscript: Letter
1600-1699'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogether reading Selden and Grotius and such other Authors,...Samuel Pepys Hugo GrotiusMare LiberumPrint: Book
1700-1799'[having been searching for evidence of the truth of Christianity, Johnson] recollecting a Book he had once picked up in the Shop, & again thrown by, entitled De Veritate...Samuel Johnson Hugo GrotiusDe veritate religionis ChristianaePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Magnus on the Farbensinn'George Eliot [pseud] Hugo MagnusDie Geschichtliche Entwickelung des FarbensinnesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Fri. Read America the War by Hugo Münsterberg. Roulette +1.50 for Sat.'William Thomas Hugo MünsterbergThe War and AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hugo de GrootDe jure belli et pacisPrint: Book
1900-1945'A lady I know well was sitting by the fire one evening. She wanted something to read so she reached out a hand to the bookcase by her side and took out a book at random....Humbert WolfThe Uncelestial CityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads Don Q. aloud after tea - Finish Anson's voyage befor...Mary Godwin Humphrey DavyElements of Chemical PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.Mary Godwin and Percy shelleyHumphrey DavyElements of Chemical PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Davy - In the evening read Curt. and Les Incas'.Mary Godwin Humphrey DavyElements of Chemical PhilosophyPrint: Book


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