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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'It was The Waste Land that compelled recognition... The title, we know, comes from Miss J. L. Weston's book From Ritual to Romance, the theme of which is anthropological...T. S. Eliot Jessie L. WestonFrom Ritual to RomancePrint: Book
1900-1945'I think newspapers do a lot towards it, because one of the first things I do is to look at the women's page in the News Chronicle. I read her - Jill Adams, I think her n...Jill AdamsNews ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I was very much obliged by your copy of Doering's Jean Paul and the manuscript sent along with it; whch tho' too late for assisting my printed critical labours I perused...Thomas Carlyle JMH DoringJean Paul Richters LebenPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Letter to George Steevens] I thank you for "Neander", but wish he were not so fine. I will take care of him'. Samuel Johnson Joachim Neander[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'Flora Thompson Joan O'NeillThe Daisy ChainPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 7 June 1809: 'Mrs Cholmley and two of her daughters and Walter Scott breakfasted with us. Shortly after came Sir G. and Lady Beaumont, Robert Walpol...Mary Berry Joanna BaillieThe Family Legend (acts 1, 2, 3, 5)Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 7 June 1809: 'Mrs Cholmley and two of her daughters and Walter Scott breakfasted with us. Shortly after came Sir G. and Lady Beaumont, Robert Walpol...F. Cholmley Joanna BaillieThe Family Legend (act 4)Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 19 May 1811, on stay with Joanna Baillie at Hampstead: 'Sat by the fire the whole day. Joanna Baillie gave us her drama upon Hope to read; it is onl...Mary Berry Joanna BaillieHopeUnknown
1800-1849'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'.Mary Godwin Joanna Baillie[plays]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Miss Berry [...] told me [Harriet Martineau] how she found on her table, on her return from a ball, a volume of plays [Joanna Baillie's "Plays on the Passions"]; and how...Mary Berry Joanna BailliePlays on the PassionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the last play in the Series on the passions. The subject of it is Hatred. It is a tragedy & the title is De Montfort. There is one rather curious mistake in this pl...Joseph Hunter Joanna BaillieA Series of Plays In Which It is Attempted to DeliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I "would write a very elegant and spirited critique on it" - which I am not so cer...Thomas Carlyle Joanna BaillieMetrical Legends of Exalted CharactersPrint: Book
1800-1849'M. reads Miss Bailey's plays'.Mary Godwin Joanna Baillie[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads aloud the view of the French Revolution for a short t...Mary Godwin Joanna BaillieEthwaldPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the afternoon read Miss Bailie's plays'Mary Godwin Joanna Baillie[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Not very well - Shelley very unwell - read de Montfort - and talk with S. in the evening read View of the French Revolution'.Mary Godwin Joanna BaillieDe MontfortPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter 22 November 1813]

'I want to read again Miss Baillie's ''Hope'',which I thought the prettiest of her compositions ...'		Jessie Allen Joanna BaillieHopePrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson discusses William George Thompson's annotations to Joanna Southcott, The Strange Effects of Faith (including glosses, and cross-references to the Bible), wh...William George Thompson Joanna SouthcottThe Strange Effects of FaithPrint: Pamphlet
1500-1599
1600-1699		Virginia F. Stern notes 'a few MS. notes and underlinings' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of Joannes Boccatius, "Compendium Romanae historiae" (1535).Gabriel Harvey Joannes BoccatiusCompendium Romanae historiae, oppido quam succintu...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joannes ScapulaJoan. Scapulae Lexicon Graeco-LatinumPrint: Book


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