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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'And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there searched and found my Uncle Day's will and read it over...Samuel Pepys John Day[Will]Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington John DenhamCooper's HillPrint: Unknown
1700-1799"Pope collected copies of attacks on his own work, and the notes in these tend understandably to the defensive, as in the occasional sarcastic comment in pamphlets by Joh...Alexander Pope John Dennispamphlet attacking Pope's poetryPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799'He said, he wished to see John Dennis's "Critical Works" collected. Davies said they would not sell. Dr. Johnson seemed to think otherwise.' Samuel Johnson John Dennis[critical works]Print: Serial / periodical, presumably not in a book if Johnson wanted them to be collected
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the first John Buchan I read. John Dickson Carr – I loved...Hilary Spalding John Dickson Carr Print: Book
1800-1849'An Evening contemplation in a College; in imitation of Greys Elegy in a country Churchyard "The curfew tolls the hour of closing gates;/ With jarring sound the porter tu...Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxJohn DoncombeAn Evening Contemplation in a CollegeUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John DonneLXXX SermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John DonneLXXX SermonsPrint: Book
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 John Donne Print: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] copied a brief quotation from Donne's "Death be not proud" into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ["Death be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dread...William Wordsworth John DonneHoly Sonnet 10Unknown
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma...Ralph Finn John Donne Print: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes Coleridge's 1811 annotation of Charles Lamb's copy of Donne's Poems, in which he wrote "'N.B. Spite of Appearances, this Copy is better for the Mss. N...Samuel Taylor Coleridge John DonnePoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John DonnePoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the comple...Thomas A. Jackson John Donne[poems complete works]Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John Horseman, 16-20 April 1794: 'How like you the gallant city of London? is it not an overgrown monster devouring its own children? a large sink of f...Robert Southey John DonneSatyre IIPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Donne, 'A Hymne to God the Father'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John DonneA Hymne to God the FatherUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'I wish I could give you a satisfactory answer to a very interesting question. I ardently w...Robert Southey John DonneSatyre IIPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am still in the hospital and expect to be for at least two days more … Just now I don’t know where I can keep books. I have with me Donne’s poems and Brown’s “Reli...Isaac Rosenberg John DonnePoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to a reading of Drinkwater 'Abraham Lincoln' - most members taking part'members of XII Book ClubJohn DrinkwaterAbraham LincolnPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to a reading of Oliver Cromwell by John Drinkwater'.Members of XII Book ClubJohn DrinkwaterOliver CromwellPrint: Book


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