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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'Wrote part of a sermon from Gisborne's Natural Theology'Benjamin Newton Thomas GisborneThe Testimony of Natural TheologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wrote to Albert [Albert Ruskin Cook, her son in Uganda] + posted. Mended skirt with brown wool. Read papers: Daily Mail and News.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Daily MailPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Wrote to Albert [Albert Ruskin Cook, her son in Uganda] + posted. Mended skirt with brown wool. Read papers: Daily Mail and News.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Daily NewsPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Wrote to Clara & thanked for flowers & book & gave account of birthday. Finished Wall of Partition.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Florence Louisa BarclayThe Wall of PartitionPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Wrote to Maysie. Read Jungle Book.'Verena Vera Pennefather Rudyard KiplingThe Jungle BookPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wrote to Reg. Read "The Right Stuff". Up on the mat for being late last night. Pass stopped!? Visit from Miss Barnsley and her aunt - Mrs Frank Wright. Sweets & 5 books....John Frederick William Dunn Ian HayThe Right StuffPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wrote up, finished O. Henry's "Cabbages and Kings" (an inferior S. American "South Wind" but good) and some more G. [Geoffrey] Scott. Bed 10.'Ronald Storrs O. Henry (pseud)Cabbages and KingsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wrote, and read "Persian Gulf Gazetteer", a unique and monumental compilation, and a political history of the Middle East beyond compare.'Ronald Storrs John Gordon LorimerGazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Ar...Print: Book
1850-1899'Wych Hazel'Sarah Good E. WetherellWych HazelPrint: Book
1700-1799'Wyndham and Johnson were talking of Miss Burney's new Novel - 'Tis far superior to Fielding's, says Mr Johnson; her Characters are nicer discriminated, and less prominen...Samuel Johnson Frances BurneyCeciliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'W[illia]m [Wordsworth] has read most of Mr Clarkson's book and has been much pleased, but he complains of the second volume being exceedingly disfigured by perpetual use...William Wordsworth Thomas ClarksonPortraiture of Quakerism as taken from a View of t...Print: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth copied quotations from Descartes into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31, leaves 71-2, c. Feb 1801.'William Wordsworth Rene DescartesunknownUnknown
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807....William Wordsworth Willam Blake[lyrics]Print: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807....Mary Wordsworth Willam Blake[lyrics]Print: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] asked [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795 to "make me a present of that vol: of Bells forgotten poetry which contains The Minstrel and Sir martyn" ... [he]includ...William Wordsworth John BellBell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive PoetryPrint: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] composed a loose translation of Petrarch, Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento in 1789-90 while learning Italian with Agostino Isola.'William Wordsworth PetrarchSe la mia vita da l'aspro tormento (sonnet)Unknown
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
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] copied a set of extracts from Buchanan into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ... probably between mid-March and 10 June 1807.'William Wordsworth John Lanne BuchananTravels in the Western Hebrides, 1782 to 1790Print: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] copied from ... [Thomas Wilkinson's MS "Tours of the British Mountains"] the passage which had inspired the Solitary Reaper [about a female reaper singing i...William Wordsworth Thomas WilkinsonTours to the British MountainsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] copied out seven lines of Grahame's poem [Birds of Scotland] in a letter to Lady Beaumont of Dec. 1806, written at Coleorton, commending it as "exquisite".'William Wordsworth James GrahameBirds of ScotlandUnknown


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