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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
 
1600-1699'August 26. By reading of Bishop Usher's Body of Divinity, I was convinced of my sinning against the commandments of God in many cases'.Isaac Archer James UssherA Body of DivinitiePrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even I read to my friend a sermon preached at the last Visitation held at Lewes, written by Mr Nicholl, Vicar of Westham in this county, and part of three discour...Thomas Turner James WalderThe ax laid to the root; or, a preservative agains...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderbu...George Gordon Lord Byron James Wedderburn WebsterWaterloo and Other PoemsManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webster ... Amongst the ingredients of this volume I was ...George Gordon, Lord Byron James Wedderburn WebsterWaterloo and Other PoemsPrint: Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I went to see my Grandmother, she lent me 2 romances "Richard Couer de Lion" by Mr White author of "Earl Strongbow" & "John Of Gaunt". It begins with his escape out of p...Joseph Hunter James WhiteThe Adventures of King Richard Couer de LionPrint: Book
1800-1849'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history [of] mathematics", Woods "optics", Cunn's "Euclid" a...Thomas Carlyle James WoodThe Elements of OpticsPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered...Thomas Carlyle James WoodThe Elements of OpticsPrint: Book
1800-1849'On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my friend James' [?Edmeston].John Cole James [?] EdmestonThe penny magazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?I finished poor old Carlyle last night. Froude?s case is curious. He expresses & I think, really feels, veneration & so forth; but there is something curiously complicat...Leslie Stephen James A. FroudeThomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London 18...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge James Abraham HillhouseHadadPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I heartily concur. - I wish I had the pleasure of Mr. ...George Gordon Lord Byron James and Horace SmithHorace in London; consisting of Imitations of the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little about them & expressed my hope of their having amuse...Jane Austen James and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little about them & expressed my hope of their having amuse...Mrs Digweed James and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor has recommended it most warmly to them. - [italics] ...Papillon FamilyJames and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor has recommended it most warmly to them. - [italics] ...Eleanor Papillon James and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's notes to Pettit's Anecdotes (borrowed from her friend Edward Mangin in 1817), written by her onto separate sheets of paper, whic...Hester Lynch Piozzi James Andrew PettitAnecdotes, &c Ancient and ModernPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offe...Emrys Daniel Hughes James Anthony Froude Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Violet Paget, 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading the new instalment (conclusion) of Froude's Carlyle ..."Henry James James Anthony FroudeLife of Carlyle (concluding instalments)Print: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] James Anthony FroudeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'As to books, we (in this house) are very old-fashioned; and I am only now indulging in Froude's "Elizabeth". I did not mean to read it, - being disgusted by his dishones...Harriet Martineau James Anthony FroudeHistory of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the ...Print: Book


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