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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'The lecture is splendid. It is striking in its expression [...]and in its eloquence too [...].I call it scientific eloquence--that is eloquence appealing not to the pass...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells The Discovery of the FuturePrint: Book, Pamphlet
1700-1799'Read Garth's "Dispensary"; a lively and pleasing poem, sparkling with considerable wit, but defrauded of its just fame by the "Dunciad"...'Thomas Green Samuel GarthThe DispensaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838: '[To] satisfy some curiosity, [I] have been reading Garth's "Dispensary," a poem very worthy of its subject'.Elizabeth Barrett Samuel GarthThe Dispensary, a PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John WebsterThe Displaying of Supposed WitchcraftPrint: Book
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'Sydney Smith [unknown]The Dissenter Tripped UpPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since the first two I spent on board; translated a German ...Fanny Kemble Dante AlighieriThe Divine ComedyPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 22 July 1831, following record of discussion with her aunt Dall in which the prospect was raised of her having to give up her career and personal wealth if ...Fanny Kemble Dante AlighieriThe Divine Comedy (Purgatorio)Print: Book
1900-1945'Here I have been reading any amount of rubbish: among them (the rubbishes) two quite admirable shockers by John (Prester) Buchan: THE POWERHOUSE and THE THIRTY NIN...Francis Brett Young May SinclairThe Divine FirePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in library; for first time, in Swift's "Ode to Athenian Society". Not in good state to judge, but thought it but heavy, though not worse perhaps than odes generally...William Windham William WarburtonThe Divine Legation of Moses DemonstratedPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been looking over books in the book case where the Dionysius stands, Stow's "Chronicle and survey of London". By wisdom, truth and heed was he/ advanced an alderm...William Windham William WarburtonThe Divine Legation of Moses DemonstratedPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked through the 3d. Book of Warburton's "Divine Legation". It is impossible to pursue this eccentric Genius steadily, through the mazy curves along which he wheels h...Thomas Green William WarburtonThe divine legation of Moses demonstratedPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyThe DoctorPrint: Book
1800-1849‘And what do you think of the "Doctor"? And what do you think of [John Gibson] Lockhart’s wise conjecture, that I - even I - Hartley Coleridge, assisted by my father, a...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheyThe DoctorPrint: Book
1800-1849‘Talking of Doctors, there is another volume of the Doctor forthcoming. What a wonderful energy of intellect, that can produce such a work under such circumstances. And...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheyThe DoctorPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent George Bernard ShawThe Doctor's DilemmaPrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took...George Moore Mary Elizabeth BraddonThe Doctor's WifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of trying to reduce (as I tried to do a few days ago!) C...Donald William Alers Hankey Dr Robert William DaleThe Doctrine of AtonementPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26- c.29 April 1794: 'Saturday last the day I began this letter I was at Downing at old Robert Lovells. the most primitive o...Robert Southey William DellThe Doctrine of BaptismsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard ByfieldThe Doctrine of the Sabbath VindicatedPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John James ParkThe Dogmas of the ConstitutionPrint: Book


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