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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'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...Walter Rowntree 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...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...Florence Reynolds James BarriePeter PanPrint: 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...John Ridges James Barrie Print: Book
1850-1899'Sep.Sep at Harborne'Sarah Good James BarrieThe Little MinisterPrint: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] was introduced to The Minstrel by his teacher, Thomas Bowman ... during his schooldays at Hawkshead. De Selincourt emphasizes its influence on the juvenili...William Wordsworth James BeattieMinstrel, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: marginal and text pencil annotations throughout, all relating to different uses of language e.g. p. 3 after the end of the text is the ms note 'Scotch - Eve...John Drummond Erskine James BeattieScoticisms arranged in alphabetical orderPrint: Book
1800-1849[On hot summer afternoons Carter took shelter in the shaded parts of Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens] 'In the latter I remember to have passed one afternoon in a very ple...Thomas Carter James BeattieThe Minstrel, or the Progress of GeniusPrint: Book
1800-1849?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Trut...Thomas Carter James Beattie[Essays]Print: Book
1800-1849?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Trut...Thomas Carter James BeattieEssay on truthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Epitaph' 'Part of an inscription for amonument to be erected/by a gentleman to the memory of his lady' 'Farewell my best beloved! Whose heavenly mind...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxJames BeattieEpitaph OR [Poems on Several Occasions]Unknown
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle James BeattieThe MinstrelPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Looked over, by a cursory perusal, Beattie's "Essay on Truth"...'Thomas Green James BeattieAn essay on the nature and immutability of truthPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read over Beattie's "Elements of Moral Science"--a miserable work...'Thomas Green James BeattieElements of moral sciencePrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to MIss Ewing August 10 1778 '? I resume my wonted pleasure of contemplating the calm bosom of my own lake, the purest of mirrors, exhibiting a prospect awfully so...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James BeattieThe minstrel; or , the progress of geniusPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing November 14 1778 'I have cut all the leaves out of a great old goose of a book, and there I have placed those pretty pictures in regular succession;...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James BeattiePoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoub...Elizabeth Barrett James BeattieThe MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Mins...Elizabeth Barrett James BeattieThe MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such f...Adam Smith James Beattie'Minstrel, The'Print: Book
1700-1799'Beattie's book is, I believe, every day more liked; at least, I like it more as I look more upon it.'Samuel Johnson James BeattieMinstrel, The; or, The Progress of GeniusPrint: Book


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