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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
 
1700-1799' [Johnson said] "There is much talk of the misery which we cause to the brute creation; but they are recompensed by existence. If they were not useful to man, and theref...James Boswell Francis HutchesonSystem of Moral PhilosophyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I do not perfectly understand Fabricius always, but I think his Genera more natural than those of any other Author; it is indeed almost impossible to follow him in the s...George Crabbe Johan Christian FabriciusSystema entomologiaePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Paul Henri Dietrich, Baron d' HolbachSysteme de la nature ou des loix du monde physique...
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & go...George Crabbe Patrick KeithSystems of Physiological BotanyPrint: Book
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Stefan ZeromskiSyzyfowe pracePrint: Book
1900-1945'Last week worked through Lawrence of Arabia - tributes to him by his friends.'Vere Hodgson Thomas Edward LawrenceT. E. Lawrence by His FriendsPrint: Book
1850-1899"In 1932 Thomas Burke paid tribute to T. P.'s Weekly for having fired his imagination and given direction to his life ... 'I discovered literature by picking up a copy of...Thomas Burke T. P.'s WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'But perhaps her most appropriate comment on the end of Lawrence's tormented life had been made the previous year in a review of Liddell Hart's "T.E. Lawrence in Arabia a...Winifred Holtby Liddell HartT.E. Lawrence in Arabia and AfterUnknown
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen T.P. and Cassell's WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799" From two till three I read Tab. de la Suisse."Lady Eleanor Butler Tab. de la SuisseUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John SeldenTable-TalkPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John SeldenTable-TalkPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Mercier's "Nouveau Paris", a sort of continuation of his...Mary Berry Bartholomew MercierTableau de ParisPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, 17 August 1831: “Finished Cebes and began Theophrastus Clouds - & imitation of yesterday thunderstorm; and fortunately for my nerves, Virgil to Homer!”Elizabeth Barrett Browning CebesTablet of CebesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Another book of a very different character has amused me mightily; it is entitled "Tablettes Romaines", and is full of wit and vivacity, and gives a very just and true p...Sarah Harriet Burney J.H., Count de Santo DomingoTablettes romaines; contenant des faits, des anecd...Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.' Claire Clairmont Bernardo Davanzati BostichiTacito volgarizzatoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' Claire Clairmont Bernardo Davanzati BostichiTacito volgarizzatoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' Claire Clairmont Bernardo Davanzati BostichiTacito volgarizzatoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Davanzati's Tacitus' [entered in Claire Clairmont's 1820 Journal on 22, 24, 27 Feb and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19 March (reading begun 19 February); 'Read a ...Claire Clairmont Bernardo Davanzati BostichiTacito volgarizzatoPrint: Book
1900-1945I have been for two motor drives, so you see I am getting on: and I am reading a book called 'Tadpoles and God' which pleases me by talking of Mr Wells who 'in his ...Freya Stark Laurence Oliver BrownTadpoles and GodPrint: Book


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