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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
 
1900-1945'I have been reading a horrible book of Jack London's called "The Jacket". If you come across [it] anywhere, don't read it. it is about the ill-treatment in an American...Clive Staples Lewis Jack LondonThe Star RoverPrint: Book
1700-1799[a gentleman in her shop having paid the postage due on a packet from Edinburgh, LP] 'civilly entreated his Permission to peruse my Letter, to which he agreeing, I had no...Laetitia Pilkington Jack Pilkington[a letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'When Mr [italics] Brush [end italics] departed, I read my dear Child's Letter' [she gives the text of the letter]Laetitia Pilkington Jack Pilkington[a letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Bruce Dilks Jacob AbbottRollo at WorkPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41
F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Jacob AbbottRollo at Work [The chapter ‘Labor Lost’]Print: Book
1850-1899'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou...Henry Maynard Jacob Boehme Print: Book
1800-1849'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in this life' [...] Read portions of Bryant 'On the plague...John Cole Jacob BryantOn the plagues of EgyptPrint: Book
1800-1849'Looking this evening at Jacob Bryant's remarks on history of Isaiah; fanciful, but very interesting.'John Ruskin Jacob BryantTreatise on the Authenticity of the ScripturesPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:] 'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, except a little volume of very pretty Essays by Miss Aiki...Elizabeth Carter Jacob BryantA New System, or, an Analysis of Ancient Mythology...Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 17 November 1878: "I have lately been reading Burkhardt's Renaissance and feeling all that very strongly." Henry James Jacob BurkhardtThe Civilisation of the Renaissance in ItalyPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'In 1584 [Gabriel Harvey] had acquired [...] Hugkel's "Semeiotice", 1560, a medical text which bases its diagnoses on Galenic theory and the four humours [...] The inscri...Gabriel Harvey Jacob HugkelSemeioticePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jacob RhenferdOpera philologica, dissertationibus exquisitissimi...Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Joseph Conrad, the author, writes: I don’t remember any child’s book. I don’t think I ever read any; the first book I remember distinctly is Hugo’s "Travailleurs...Joseph Conrad Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmGrimm's Fairy TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nig...George Eliot Jacopo Nardi (probably)unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jacopo SannazaroJacobi Sannazarii, patricii neapolitani, operaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'ricordati di Biondetta [...] [the sale of] Newstead--that is a pity--why not have kept it & taken Biondetta there & have livd [sic] and died happy'.Lady Caroline Lamb Jacques CazotteLe diable amoreuxPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for "La Maison natale", which you have so kindly sent me. I have just finished reading it and am greatly impressed by the simple and effective way you treat ...Joseph Conrad Jacques CopeauLa Maison natalePrint: Book, playscript
1900-1945'Very many thanks for your kind and friendly notion of sending me "The Brothers Karamazov". I am quite simply astonsihed to see how you and your collaborator have succee...Joseph Conrad Jacques Copeau (and Jean Croue, after Fyodor DostoievskiLes Frères Karamazov: une drame en 5 actes Dostoi...Print: playscript
1700-1799'M. Necker, the late Minister...has written a book entitled "De l'Importance des opinions Religeuses", it pleases me and I want to know the character of the man in domest...Mary Wollstonecraft Jacques NeckerDe l'Importance des opinions ReligeusesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not like Madame Bertin, I suspect all such books'.Sydney Smith Jacques PeuchetMemoires de mademoiselle Bertin sur la Reine Marie...Print: Book


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