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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[account of attending the lectures on metals advertised in the "Iris"] ...all this I had read before ... in the "Sup. Ency." [supplement to the "Encyclopedia Britanica"] ...Joseph Hunter George GregoryThe Economy of Nature Explained and IllustratedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read. Received kit. Read "The Edge o' Beyond". Inoculated.'John Frederick William Dunn Gertrude PageThe Edge o' BeyondPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		I read very seldom indeed having in the first place but very little time for it... and in the second place, Mr & Mrs A. having never offered to lend me any books except a...Ellen Weeton David BrewsterThe Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Conducted by D. BrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Looked through a volume of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - read an account of Gordon's Portable Gas Lamp, and of the tides of the Mediterranean. At Venice they...John Horrocks Ainsworth The Edinburgh Philosophical JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), ?27 November 1813: "Redde the Edinburgh Review of Rogers [with himself and other contemporary authors also discussed]...George Gordon Lord Byron VariousThe Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde the Edinburgh, 44, just come out. In the beginning of the article on 'Edgeworth's Patronage,' I h...George Gordon Lord Byron The Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ...Dorothea Beale The Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have just finished the last number of the "Edinburgh Revie...Lord Francis Jeffrey The Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The other book — which I am denying myself to write to YOU, yes YOU of all people — is from the library by Blackwood called "Uncle Paul". Oh, I have never read anythin...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon BlackwoodThe Education of Uncle PaulPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tell Sylvia that when I came back [from Norfolk a week before] I read the rest of "Uncle Paul’s Education" and that though there are beautiful things in it and a b...William Henry Hudson Algernon BlackwoodThe Education of Uncle PaulPrint: Book
1850-1899'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w...Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945"Lady Cynthia Asquith ... believed [as she recorded in her diary] that 'Meredith is very good for reading aloud.' On 10 March 1916 she tested this proposition by reading...Lady Cynthia Asquith George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945"At the age of 18 Violet Asquith ... tackled The Egoist, which 'I thought brilliant. The first 3 pages made me so angry by their obscureness ... that I nearly left off ....Violet Asquith George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1850-1899'Talking about G. Meredith, I have just re-read for the third and fourth time The Egoist.'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1850-1899'... after that you will read the Egoist by the same ... I have read... The Egoist six times ...'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throws such a clear light on the male character. C. says ...David Lloyd George George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book


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