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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
 
1800-1849[Sunday] Church 11 A.M. 3 P.M. [...] Worked on Index. Read Burton's Testimonies to the Trinity.William Ewart Gladstone Edward BurtonTestimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divi...Print: Book
1800-1849[...] Finished Burton [...]William Ewart Gladstone Edward BurtonTestimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divi...Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 October 1837: 'Read some of Channing's "Texas."'Harriet Martineau ChanningTexasUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 14 January 1838: 'Read Channing's "Texas," and found it nobler than ever before [...] Read aloud Southey's article in the Quarterly on Cemeter...Harriet Martineau ChanningTexasPrint: Book
1850-1899'began Buhle's "History of Modern Philosophy"'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann BuhleTextbook on the History of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1850-1899On advice of Mark Pattison, young Mrs Humphry Ward took up study of early Spanish, using Bodleian "'Spanish room'".Mary Augusta Ward Texts in/on early SpanishPrint: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read to [Lady Charlotte Schreiber], first the Times and ...Miss Moody texts including 'some memoirs' Print: Book
1800-1849The nineteenth-century cabinet maker William Lovett on the development of his literary and intellectual interests after joining 'The Liberals', a literary and debating as...William Lovett texts on Christian religionPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 12 June 1843: 'We read about Ireland with great interest [...] Georgy [daughter] reads us Mr. Sheil...Leveson Gower family texts on Ireland / Irish politicsPrint: Unknown
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1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton texts on religionPrint: Unknown
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1850-1899		'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at his request read "Maud." It appears that the poor ma...anon texts used in teaching self to readPrint: Unknown
1500-1599'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 1527 folio containing Sacrobosco's "Textus de Sphaera",...Gabriel Harvey Joannis de SacroboscoTextus de SphaeraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Great and manifold are the books I have read since I saw you. You recommended "Thaddeus of Warsaw" long ago you may remember - and the work in my judgement fully deserve...Thomas Carlyle Jane PorterThaddeus of WarsawPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'Jan.15th. [1889] My father asked Jowett whether his faith in God was more earnest than it had been. He answer...Benjamin Jowett Plato ThaetetusPrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Anatole FranceThaisPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day: 'These then are my thoughts [...] My books are equal...Edward Morgan Forster Anatole FranceThaisPrint: Book
1900-1945'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in your hands with confidence and trust - but one never k...Joseph Conrad Anatole France ThaisPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith Readings - Careers for Women - F. Ridges, - Crime de ...Ernest E. Unwin Anatole FranceThaisPrint: Book
1800-1849?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.?Thomas Babington Macaulay Robert SoutheyThalabaPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening Shelley reads Thaliba aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThalaba the DestroyerPrint: Unknown


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