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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Sammlung vorzuglich schoner Gedichte...Print: Book
1800-1849'I liked Milman's books better than your scanty recommendation led me to expect- The gentleman is certainly a poet - he excells in description - the outlines of his pictu...Jane Baillie Welsh Henry Hart MilmanSamor, the Lord of the Bright CityPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the 'bright city' and rejoiced to find your criticism of it so agreeable to my own. Milman is certainly a poet, but he takes a flight higher than he can sus...Thomas Carlyle Henry Hart MilmanSamor, the Lord of the Bright CityPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Martin LutherSamptliche SchrifftenPrint: Book
1800-1849'The first scene is the Lamentation of Sampson [sic] which possesses much pathos of sublimity ... I think this is beautiful... 'Alfred Tennyson John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Milton's "Samson Agonistes";--a noble Poem, but a miserable Drama...'Thomas Green John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - 3rd Georgic - Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes'Mary Shelley John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes'Mary Shelley John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson, aged twelve, to his aunt Marianne Fytche: 'You used to tell me that you should be obliged to me if I would write to you and give you my remarks on wor...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 4th. May 1942.
M. Stevens in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read, pronounced rather more accurate ...		Rosamund Wallis Margaret DilksSamuel Butler at the Book ClubManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit fo...Virginia Woolf Henry Festing JonesSamuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A Me...Print: Book
1900-1945'From Axel Munthe's "San Michele": "Imprisoned monkeys, so long as they are in company, live on the whole a supportable life. They are so busy finding out all that is goi...Thomas Kitching Axel MuntheSan MichelePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'On the dressing table were three books, my own, "Sanders of the River", Snowden's "Wages and Prices", a relic of my student days, and "The Book of Mormon" which had been...Edgar WallaceSanders of the RiverPrint: Book
1700-1799[from SHR's intro] 'It was probably Day's "Sandford and Merton" which induced her [Maria Edgeworth] to apply her natural gifts to the writing of books of an educational n...Maria Edgeworth Thomas DaySandford and MertonPrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Charles Arthur MercierSanity and InsanityPrint: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday I finished the "Life" [the biography of Saint Teresa of Avila by Cunninghame Graham's wife Gabriela.] Ca m'a laissé une profonde impression de tristesse [...] ...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamSanta Teresa: Her Life and TimesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Now the first sensation of oppression has worn off a little what remains with one after reading the "Life of Santa Teresa" is the impression of a wonderful richness; a...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamSanta Teresa: Her Life and TimesPrint: Book
1900-1945' I have had the new edition of Sta. Teresa sent down for a leisurely re-reading. It seems no end of years since I read first this wonderful book--the revelation for the ...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamSanta Teresa: Her Life and TimesPrint: Book
1850-1899'What novel did you choose (in default of one from me,) for your confinement reading. I am afraid you did not get hold of the Young Protector; it is too old a book to be ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Catherine CuthbertsonSanto Sebastiano: or, The Young ProtectorPrint: Book


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