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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'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico.' Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday August 16th. [...] Read Christabel & the Saggio Storico.' Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot.Anne Lister Said Eve unto AdamUnknown
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1800-1849		'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song...Samuel Bamford anonSaint George and the DragonPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding George Bernard ShawSaint JoanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have something to say, but I am only paring away insinceri...Edward Morgan Forster George Bernard ShawSaint JoanPrint: Book
1900-1945'But this is specially to thank you for the two books — the "Adding Machine" and "Men and Masses". Modern literature is very queer isn't it, but it's also extremely...Gertrude Bell George Bernard ShawSaint JoanPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 28 July 1797: 'Since you left me I have been reading the Saint Louis of Le Moyne: an epic poem in 18 books. Le Moyne had genius — but he ...Robert Southey Pierre Le Moyne Saint Louis Print: Book
1900-1945'My children like to get hold of Charteris, the Saint Stories, you know. But it's a funny thing we can't get any of his books in this library now. I don't know where they...Leslie CharterisSaint storiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've had the "Fortnightly [Review]" sent to me. I've just finished your "Sainte Beuve". My dear fellow! It's an admirable analytical exposition of the man himself. I've ...Joseph Conrad Gérard Jean-AubrySainte Beuve (exact title unknown)Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The wife of an Indian yogi (if a yogi be permitted to have a wife) might be a very affectionate woman, but her sympathy with her husband could not have a very extensive ...Maria Edgeworth KalidasaSakuntala: or the lost ring - and Indian dramaPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to p...Wilfred Owen Gustave FlaubertSalammboPrint: Book
1850-1899'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is close to a miracle. I well remember that when I was wr...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertSalammbôPrint: 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 Henry WilliamsonSalar the SalmonPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a young man in America, he had been deeply impressed by "Salathiel", a pious prose romance of that then popular writer, the Rev. George Croly."Philip Gosse Rev. George CrolySalathielPrint: Book
1900-1945'I thought it would be interesting to me in my work (Salesmanship - Hover)' HoverSalesmanshipPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Approved remedies for Everyday Maladies. For a Fit of Passion. - Walk out in the open air, you may speak your m...C.M.G. [anon] Salisbury HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - "Freddie's Friend", "Little Billie's B...William Henry Davies unknownSally's SacrificePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Beaumonts Hermophroditus [sic]'Mary Shelley Francis BeaumontSalmasis and HermaphroditusPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantSammlung einiger bisher unbekannt gebliebener kleiPrint: Book


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