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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
 
1850-1899'There came from the library Hody de Graecis Illustribus, in which I looked at the life of Marullus...'George Eliot [pseud] Humphrey HodyDe Graecis IllustribusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [italics] Little town in France [end italics] began by be...Antonia White Humphrey JenningsLittle town in FrancePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'I finished Prideaux's "Connection of the Old and New Testament" history.'Joseph Hunter Humphrey PrideauxThe Old and New Testament ConnectedPrint: Book
1800-1849'I looked also one evening into Prideaux's "Connections" [...]But my chief employment was [...]the renewed attempt at solving the problem which I met with in the work of ...William Windham Humphrey PrideauxConnections or The Old and New Testament ConnectedPrint: Book
1800-1849'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's Sermons, Blairs Sermons, 5vols. Scott's Christian Li...James Lackington Humphrey PrideauxThe Old and New Testament connected in the history...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sir H. Davy is going to publish a volume of poetry. I saw one of the poems; it is very abstruse, and metaphysical, on the nature and essence of man, beginning with him a...Humphry DavyunknownManuscript: 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
1800-1849'Mr Layard has lent me Sir Humphry Davy's "Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher". It is a posthumous publication, & the editor says that "Had his lif...Sarah Harriet Burney Humphry DavyConsolations in Travel, or the Last days of a Phil...Print: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bury went to see Humphry Davy, hoping to enlist his support in a subscription for James Hogg] 'and the visit was productive to me of a great treasure; for seei...Charlotte Bury Humphry Davy'To the Glow-Worm'Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R. Bridges is a poet I'm damned if he ain't! There's more poesy in one page of "Shorter Poems" than...Joseph Conrad Humphry JamesPaddy's Woman and Other StoriesPrint: 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
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hyman HurwitzThe Elements of the Hebrew LanguagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Suetonius is finished and S. begins the Historia Augustana'.Percy Bysshe Shelley I. Casaubon (ed.)Historia AugustanaPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"On happiness” [unattributed], beginning 'True Happiness is not the growth of Earth'.Catherine Austen I. S.'True Happiness is not the growth of Earth'Unknown
1800-1849'Extracted from Bridges. Looked over the Acct. of Croyland Abbey, which supplied me with a hint for the Acct. of Wellingbro' Church, which I added [...] I looked over Par...John Cole Ian BridgesHistory of NorthamptonshirePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Ian FraserWhereas I was BlindPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Ian HayPipPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Ian HayLighter Side of School Life, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm not keen to read books dealing with the current situation. War's grim enough, I prefer to choose books without war interest. For that reason I try and get books o...Ian HayA Knight on WheelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wrote to Reg. Read "The Right Stuff". Up on the mat for being late last night. Pass stopped!? Visit from Miss Barnsley and her aunt - Mrs Frank Wright. Sweets & 5 books....John Frederick William Dunn Ian HayThe Right StuffPrint: Book


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