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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
 
1600-1699'calling at St Pauls churchyard and there looked upon a pretty Burlesque poem called "Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty" - extraordinary good.'Samuel Pepys Charles CottonScarronides, or Virgile TravestyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth seeks your acquaintance & society [because] he has a novel, - partly read to Mrs Nicholls the last time she was at Gawthrop, - partly to me, - [i...Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth Sir J.P.K. ShuttleworthScarsworthPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he was the dedicatee: 'This morning I have read the stanz...William Wordsworth Felicia HemansScenes and Hymns of Life &cPrint: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Henri MurgerScenes de la BohemePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted b...George Gissing Henri MurgerScenes de la Vie BohemePrint: Book
1900-1945'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as I could find about Murger and his world, and the pe...Ralph Glasser Henry MurgerScenes de la Vie de BohemePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read 'Scenes of Clerical Life', published in Blackwood, for [italics] this [end italics] year, - I shd think they began as early as Janry or February - They are a discov...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Scenes from Clerical LifePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earne...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Scenes from Clerical LifePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at 67 Eastern Avenue, 28th. Nov. 1945.
A. Austin Miller in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
Dora Langford Guess [pseud.] Scenes from the Life of Nickleby Married: containi...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 20 December 1845: 'Mrs. Sigourney has just sent me, .. just this morning .. her "Scenes in my native land" -- &...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Lydia SigourneyScenes in my Native LandPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to his house at Witley and introduced him to Mrs Lewes (...Alfred Tennyson George EliotScenes of Clerical LifePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of "Scepticism of the Instrument". I don?t, however, think that your third indictment of the instrument is quite new.' Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsScepticism of the Instrument
1900-1945"I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of 'Scepticism of the Instrument'. I don?t, however, think that your third indictment of the instrument is quite new." Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsScepticism of the InstrumentUnknown
1850-1899'Spent the evening reading with Harry & Sissy, both of these youngsters have some idea of dramatic reading & like very much to show off their capabilities. Sissy & I read...Castieau familyRichard Brinsley SheridanSchool for ScandalPrint: Book
1850-1899'Was pleased with Harry. This evening he read a scene with me from the School for Scandal & showed a good deal understanding'Harry Castieau Richard Brinsley SheridanSchool for ScandalPrint: Book
1800-1849'I begin to find like Joseph Surface that too good a character is inconvenient.'Walter Scott Richard Brinsley SheridanSchool for ScandalUnknown
1700-1799'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes th...Hester Lynch Thrale Richard Brinsley SheridanSchool for Scandal, ThePrint: Book
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1900-1945		Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius': 'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) thinks that Ionia observed and experimented freely; that ...Edward Morgan Forster Benjamin FaringtonScience and Politics in the Ancient WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929): 'It does not mattter what men say in words so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. T...Edward Morgan Forster A. N. WhiteheadScience and the Modern WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La...Helen Maria Lucy Swanwick science booksPrint: Book


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