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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
 
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines by Hannah More (“Mrs H. More”) beginning “Since trifles make the sum of human things”.Catherine Austen Hannah MoreSensibilityUnknown
1700-1799[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attributed to another, and a poem for his birthday] 'I send y...Jonathan Swift Laetitia PilkingtonSent with a Quill to Dr SwiftManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attributed to another, and a poem for his birthday] 'I send y...friends of SwiftLaetitia PilkingtonSent with a Quill to Dr SwiftManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilated, and infinitely preferable to his tiresome "Trist...Horace Walpole Laurence SterneSentimental JourneyPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter II to Miss Harriet Reid of Glasgow, April 28 1773 '?he shewed so much ingenuity in discovering faults in every thing, that I burst out a laughing, and said we were...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Laurence SterneSentimental JourneyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'Mary Shelley Laurence SterneSentimental Journey through France and Italy, APrint: Book
1850-1899November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Laurence SterneSentimental Journey, APrint: Book
1700-1799'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Paterson, was mentioned. Johnson said, this book was in ...Samuel Johnson Laurence SterneSentimental Journey, APrint: Book
1850-1899"I am now myself in cap III of 'Sentimental Tommy'. So far, it strikes me, as it struck me before in 'Scribner', as a little too merely facetious, Seems as if the begga...Arnold Bennett J.M. BarrieSentimental TommyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 7.iv.41 S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
...		Dorothea Taylor J. M. BarrieSentimental TommyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Among the writers who deserve attention the first is Rudyard Kipling (his last book ,”The Day’s Work”, a novel). J.M. Barrie—a Scotsman. His last book “Sentimental T...Joseph Conrad J M BarrieSentimental TommyPrint: Book
1900-1945Fortunately books are fairly plentiful and I keep my own books (“Dombey & Son” and “Three Musketeers”) for the time when I am in a place which nobody has left any b...Arthur Morris James Matthew BarrieSentimental TommyPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, 14 June 1831: "He [Mr. Boyd] was not in good spirits. No more was his companion – I talked however as well as I could, - & read as well as I could beside...Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusSeptem Apud ThebasPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, 14 June 1831: "While we were reading the Seven Chiefs, he observed that tho’ Plutarch preferred it to the other Tragedies of Aeschylus, he could not hel...Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusSeptem Apud ThebasPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, June 16, 1831: "I heard Stormy & Georgie read Homer & Xenophon – as usual, – tho’ I have not yet commemorated them here -& I prepared a part of the first...Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusSeptem Apud ThebasPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, June 21, 1831: "Well – but we began to read the Seven Chiefs out of Blomfield’s edition; & were very happy."Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusSeptem Apud ThebasPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, June 24, 1831: "Afterwards we returned to Mr. Boyd’s own room, & read Aeschylus again. We read the scene after the first chorus of the Seven Chief, & bot...Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusSeptem Apud ThebasPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, June 25, 1831: "Read Aeschylus – the part I read yesterday, -& wrote down all that I cd. remember of Mr. Boyd’s saying upon it."Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusSeptem Apud ThebasPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, June 15, 1831: "The Cliffes brought me The Seven Chiefs which Mrs. Best had ordered from Worcester at my request; and I have been reading over again what...Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusSeptem contra ThebasPrint: Book
1900-1945 re: 'September' 'This work is admirably conceived and just about perfectly constructed . . . It is incomparably the best novel by an author under 40 that I have read...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonSeptemberPrint: Book


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