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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'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many peop...Samuel Johnson John DyerFleece, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799Read after supper the contempt of the clergy.Gertrude Savile John EachardThe Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the ClPrint: Book
1700-1799Summerhouse reading 'contempt of the clergy' till 1/2 past 5.Gertrude Savile John EachardThe Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the ClPrint: Book
1700-1799Summerhouse and garden till past 8, cutting shift neck and reading 'The Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy' by Eachard; a book with much truth and much witt, but too l...Gertrude Savile John EachardThe Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the ClPrint: Book
1700-1799After dinner 1 hour reading 'Contempt of the Clergy'.Gertrude Savile John EachardThe Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the ClPrint: Book
1800-1849'On looking over the Articles of a General Factor in the village, where I was transacting some business, a little book of very tasteful and inviting appearance presented ...John Cole John EdwardsRecollections of FileyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Samuel V. Bracher John Evans[Lines of verse concerning bees]
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...John Evelyn John EvelynElysium BritannicumManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...John Evelyn John EvelynThersander [probably]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...John Evelyn John Evelyn[poems]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...Samuel Pepys John EvelynHortus HyemalisManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...John Evelyn John EvelynCelia afraid of an eagleManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'Up, and to the office - where, among other businesses, Mr Evelyn's proposition about public Infirmarys was read and agreed on, he being there.'Samuel Pepys John Evelyn[proposition about public infirmaries]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'And after having been there so long, I away to my boat, and up with it as far as Barne Elmes, reading of Mr Eveling's late new book against Solitude, in which I do not f...Samuel Pepys John EvelynPublick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's ...Print: Book
1600-1699'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where I left [28 April?], finding many fine things worthy...Samuel Pepys John EvelynPublick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read, since being here, Evelyn's Life of Mrs Godolphin; it is very pretty, but she is too virtuous and too nun-like...'Charles Darwin John EvelynThe Life of Mrs GodolphinPrint: Book
1800-1849'It was my intention to review Ferriar's "Theory of Apparitions"; but it is such a null, frivolous book, that it is impossible to take any notice of it'.Sydney Smith John FerriarEssay Towards a Theory of ApparitionsPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; th...Alfred Tennyson John FiskeThe Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Orig...Print: Book
1850-1899George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868: 'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the September number of the "Fortnightly," seeing by the adverti...George Grote John Fiskearticle on 'the Science of History'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John FitzgibbonThe speech of the Right Honourable John Lord BaronPrint: Book


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