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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'Please don't worry about me for one single moment. I'm as safe as houses here & having a very jolly time ... Please thank Elsie very much for the photograph & for ...John Lawton William John LockeSeptimusPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half wa...Elizabeth Barrett sequel to I Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1850-1899'G. finished reading "Seraphime" aloud to me'.George Henry Lewes [unknown]SeraphimePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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9. Kenneth Nicholson read a monograph entitled...		Arnold Joselin Arnold JoselinSerial TimeManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations stud...Katherine Evans Mark Rutherford [pseud.]Series of Character SketchesPrint: Book
Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821: 'You may probably have seen all sorts of attacks upon me in some gazettes in England some months ago. I only saw them, by Murray's ...George Gordon Lord Byron A. A. Wattsseries of five articles alleging plagiarism in Byr...Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman lent the 'Garveloch' stories by one of Martineau's ...anon woman and husbandHarriet MartineauSeries of TalesPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London-based priest friend of Johnson] He much commended Law's "Serious Call", which he said was the finest piece of hortatory t...Samuel Johnson William LawSerious Call to a Devout and Holy Life Print: Book
1700-1799'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetration into human Nature; the Characters too so neatly, ...Hester Lynch Thrale William LawSerious Call to a Devout and Holy LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'"When at Oxford, I took up Law's "Serious Call to a Holy Life", expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found L...Samuel Johnson William LawSerious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, APrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 3 September [1820]: 'How admirable and to me astonishing the ardour and industry of your good husband - to think of writing a se...Thomas Clarkson Thomas ClarksonsermonUnknown
1800-1849'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in this life' [...] Read portions of Bryant 'On the plague...John Cole John TillotsonSermonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read aloud a sermon.'John Cole Hugh BlairSermonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read aloud a sermon.'John Cole unknownSermonPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Given me by the Revd. G. Walker.' Follows transcription of a sermon on the history of the sects of the Church.Red. G. WalkersermonManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 25 August 1820: 'I send you a list of new books. Chalmers' sermon, preached after the disturbances i...Harriet Countess Granville ChalmerssermonPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 7 December 1839: 'Georgy [daughter] read me a sermon of his yesterday morning which quite charmed me on part...Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower sermonUnknown
1800-1849'Read Butcher's Sermon "He is risen" &&'. John Cole ButcherSermon 'He is risen'Unknown
1800-1849'Read one of Dr Tottie's Sermons "On the resurrection".'John Cole Dr TottieSermon 'On the resurrection'Print: Book
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1900-1945		Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938) include 'The Rev. John Newton on the Messiah' (Forster's heading) noted underneath by Forster ...Edward Morgan Forster John NewtonSermon IV ('The Lord Coming to His Temple')Print: Book


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