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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'Such was his sensibility, and so much was he affected by pathetick poetry, that, when he was reading Dr. Beattie's "Hermit" in my presence, it brought tears into his eye...Samuel Johnson James BeattieHermit, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Beattie, author of the celebrated book on Truth, was much the Subject of Conversation, the whole company concurring in the Praise of so able and useful a Writer; ...Dr Johnson, Mrs Thrale, Oliver Goldsmith and othersJames BeattieEssay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth Print: Book
1700-1799'[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading - I like this Book prodigiously Ma'am; the story of t...Susan Thrale James BeattieEssays on Poetry and Music Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been dipping into "the miserys of human life" here & there'John Clare James BeresfordThe Miseries of Human LifePrint: Book
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 BeresfordMiseries of Human LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read and finish miseries of human life'Mary Shelley James BeresfordMiseries of Human Life; or, the Groans of Samuel S...Print: Book
1800-1849'With many thanks I return your books -The Man of two Lives is founded on a good idea - treated to a great degree happily - yet it strikes me to be a translation - the ph...Mary Shelley James BoadenMan of Two Lives, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.'Jane Austen James BoswellTour to the HebridesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton James BoswellTour of the HebridesPrint: Book
1800-1849Commenced Boswell's Life of Johnson and was much pleased with it.John Horrocks Ainsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dined at five - went on with Boswell having discontinued it, since Saturday January 23rd.John Horrocks Ainsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor...Richard Pyke James Boswell Print: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899?Boswell showed his genius in setting forth Johnson?s weaknesses as well as his strength. But if Boswell had been Johnson?s brother? I cannot be simply eulogistic if the ...Leslie Stephen James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Jack Common recalled that his mother brought him a secondhand and severely abridged "Life of Johnson" for 1d., and he had to read it several times before he even partial...Jack Common James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 30 August 1800: 'I read a little of Boswell's Life of Johnson.'Dorothy Wordsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after dinner under the bright yellow leaves of the orchard...Dorothy Wordsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after dinner under the bright yellow leaves of the orchard...Dorothy Wordsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the evening service.Anne Lister James BoswellThe journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel ...Print: Book
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1800-1849		Books lately read: A Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Dr Johnson, by James Boswell, Esq. J. Boswell does appear so wonderfully simple, so surprisingly ingenuous, t...Ellen Weeton James BoswellThe Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with SamuelPrint: Book


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