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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
 
1900-1945Much marginalia in pencil, mainly in French but some in English, throughout the volume; summary notes on the rear end papers.Vernon Lee Jacques VontadeL??me des Anglais (Hypoth?ses Impertinentes)Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Jacques Benigne BossuetOraisons FunebresPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf Jacques Emile BlancheMore Portraits of a Lifetime, 1918-38Print: Book
1800-1849'I have spent a stupid day reading the Abbe de Sade's Memoirs of Petrarch. What a feeble whipster was this Petrarch with all his talents! To go dangling about, for the ...Thomas Carlyle Jacques Fracois Paul Alphonse, Abbe de SadeMemoires pour la vie de Francois PetrarchPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Nov. 8th. Rise at nine -- Read through the Man of Feeling who would have just suited Fanny [Godwin] for a husband [...] [Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin] dines at t...Claire Clairmont Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierrePaul and VirginiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday October [...] 30th. [...] Read Paul & Virginia.'Claire Clairmont Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1700-1799'He seriously entertained the thought of translating "Thuanus". He often talked to me on the subject; and once, in particular, when I was rather wishing that he would fav...Samuel Johnson Jacques-Auguste de Thou Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'Have you read St Pierre? if not, read that most delightful work & you will love the author...Robert Southey Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'Have you read St Pierre? if not, read that most delightful work & you will love the author...Robert Southey Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierreEtudes de la NaturePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jakob BohmeWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge James RellyThe Believer's TreasuryPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary writes to Alexander Blackwood, asking if he might be inclined to accept for "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" a tale by a Captain Abbott] 'The tale is long & would b...Mary Shelley James Abbott[story of India]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Ego 5", which is super.'Hilary Spalding James AgateEgo 5Print: 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 James AgateFirst NightsPrint: 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 James AgateAmazing Theatre, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through a translation of the works of that eminent divine, J...Thomas Carter James Arminius[works on theology and account of his life]Print: Book
1900-1945'Read Life of Jane Austen. Unpacked.'Verena Vera Pennefather James Austen-LeighA Memoir of Jane AustenPrint: Book
1800-1849'which has been rather a substantial morsel, upwards of 600 … pages, it interested me on the whole, as all matters do bearing on our colonial progress'.G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth James BackhouseA Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies Print: Book
1900-1945'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part rea...Mrs Kaye James BarrieWindow in Thrums, APrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part rea...Miss Marriage James BarrieWindow in Thrums, APrint: Book


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