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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'I am struggling with the Brothers Karamazov, but do not find myself at home with any of the characters. Must read something about Dostoevsky.'Vere Hodgson Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPrint: Book
1600-1699May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits mee), wherin he sayeth there is to be a disowning, a...Isaac Archer Richard SibbesThe Bruised Reed and Smoking FlaxPrint: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale Jonathan SwiftThe Bubble: A Poem; aka, The South Sea ProjectPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Many marginal notes, including dates of reading: May 27, 1919 and June 22-July 1 1923. "Too much Hohanzollen. Without that family these Berliners might have been quiet, d...George Otto Trevelyan Julius StindeThe Bucholz family. Second Part. Sketches of Berli...Print: Book
1850-1899Letter H. 39 - 12/10/1856 - "-I don't know when I read a poem, since as a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Bur...John Ruskin Dante Gabriel RossettiThe Burden of NinevehPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Pencil drawing of Sir John Moore by 'J.G.' followed by 'On the death of Sir John Moore' [transcribes text] 'Wolfe'.Mary Dugdale John WolfeThe Burial of Sir John MooreUnknown
1900-1945'Into white clothes but it was not very warm. Read Shway Yoe all day and played Bridge after dinner.' Gertrude Bell Shway Yoe (pseud. Sir George Scott)The Burman: His Life and Notions Print: Book
1900-1945'[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a...family of Harry Burton The ButterflyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 March 1802: 'Mr. Simpson came in just as [William Wordsworth] was finishing the Poem [The Butterfly]. After he was gone ...Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthThe Butterfly (and other poems)Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'[Books read] April [1914:] F. Nightingale Vol. II
Kingsley. Vol I.
[indecipherable]
Pennell 10/6 Edit. asked for.
The land of open doors.
B...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Edward Harold BegbieThe Cage: A NovelPrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Charlotte M. YongeThe Caged Lion Print: Book
1900-1945'D[inner] Stew, potatoes, rice. Read "The Call of the Wild". Dozed.'John Frederick William Dunn Jack LondonThe Call of the WildPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Andrew FullerThe Calvinistic and Socinian Systems Examined and ...Print: Book
1900-1945'To wander into bookland — I'm very much engrossed in the "Cambridge Ancient History" which certainly is a very remarkable achievement. Its first two volumes have g...Gertrude Bell J. B. Bury, S. A. Cook, F. E. Adcock.The Cambridge Ancient HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945‘By the way I liked the Armenian article in The Cambridge Magazine.’Charles Hamilton Sorley The Cambridge MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I came across a piece of verse which exercised a lasting influence on my taste. It was called "The Cameronian's Dream" and it had been written by a certain James Hyslop....Edmund Gosse James HyslopThe Cameronian's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth, on visit to Catherine Clarkson at Bury St Edmunds, to William Wordsworth and Sara Hutchinson, 14 August 1810: 'In the afternoon we looked over half th...Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 24 December 1801: 'We sate comfortably round the fire in the Evening, and read Chaucer.'Wordsworth FamilyGeoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m...G.A.W. Tomlinson Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read "Vathek" at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the im...Joseph Conrad Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales Print: Book


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