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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
 
1800-1849'S. reads the Fall of Sejanus aloud. reads Hobbes. On Man.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonSejanus, his FallPrint: Book
1800-1849'A fortnight ago, having employed myself in reading White's "Selborne", and being extremely fond of natural history, and, of course, highly delighted with that book, I wa...Sir William Elford Gilbert WhiteSelbornePrint: Book
1600-1699'My Lord and the ship's company down to Sermon. I stayed above to write and look over my new song-book, which came last night to me from London in lieu of that that my Lo...Samuel Pepys [Playford]Select ayres and dialoguesPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two things to say. the metre is that of Ph. Fletchers purple ...Robert Southey Henry HeadleySelect Beauties of Ancient English poetryPrint: Book
1700-1799'At the front of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16, in use during 1798, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied Marlowe's Edward II V.v.55-108, with some omissions ... The extract was copied ...Dorothy Wordsworth Select Collection of Old PlaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end ita...Elizabeth Barrett Select Collection of Old PlaysPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John SmithSelect DiscoursesPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts quoted from and discussed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include St Jerome, Letters ('Loeb'), with closing remarks: 'Now farewell St Jerome...Edward Morgan Forster St JeromeSelect Letters of St JeromePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Did you ever meet with an account partly translated partly composed by Miss Schimmelpenninck, of the P...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Ann SchimmelpenninckSelect Memoirs of Port RoyalPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 3 November 1827: 'You have extremely obliged me by lending me your Select Translations, -- passages from which, I have repeate...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydSelect Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom...Print: Book
1850-1899'He discussed books with me and gave me my first volume of poetry, Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold, marking his favourites.'Oscar Wilde Matthew ArnoldSelected Poems of Matthew ArnoldPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding A. Quiller-CouchSelected Stories by QPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "Select Works of Abraham Cowley". Mr. Murphy thought i...Mr Murphy Abraham CowleySelected WorksPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "Select Works of Abraham Cowley". Mr. Murphy thought i...Samuel Johnson Abraham CowleySelected WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put o...Priscilla Gurney Priscilla GurneySelection of HymnsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'.Harriet Martineau Robert SoutheySelections from the Letters of Robert SoutheyPrint: Book
1850-1899[following journal entry for 15 October 1879] 'A few days later Lady Charlotte was immersed in Mrs. Edwards' Selections from the Poets.'Lady Charlotte Schreiber Mrs Edwards, ed.Selections from the PoetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'... I have been idle, but rather too busy to write, our leisure hours being taken up with reading Sydney's "Memoirs".'Fanny Allen Sydney SmithSelections from the writings of the Rev. Sydney Sm...Print: Book
1800-1849Comparing scripture with scripture. Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from Mrs. Martin. It is formed on the model of Clarissa ...Elizabeth Barrett Mary BruntonSelf ControlPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am looking over Self-Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its' [sic] being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written Work, without anything of Nature or Probabili...Jane Austen Mary BruntonSelf ControlPrint: Book


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