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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 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir [probably] Georges-Eugene Sorel Print: Book
1850-1899'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the comple...Thomas A. Jackson [probably] Isaac Hawkins Browne[poems complete works]Print: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sanscrit paragraph which you found t'other morning in Mur...Horace Walpole [probably] James Murphy[probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 17...Print: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sanscrit paragraph which you found t'other morning in Mur...Mary Berry [probably] James Murphy[probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 17...Print: Book
1850-1899'began Pulci'.George Eliot [pseud.] [probably] Luigi Pulci[if this Pulci, poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read Prescott again and made notes'George Eliot [pseud] [probably] William Prescott[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We went in the evening to Gruppe's. He read to us parts of a poem "Ferdusi" still in M.S. which is to be read to the King.'[Prof] Gruppe [Prof.] Gruppe[poem in MS]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came away and read Shakspeare (sic) at home'.George Eliot [Prof] GruppeFerdusiManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other passions fly/ All others are but vanity/ Earthly the...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] Southey[The curse of Kehama, canto X]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the troubles in the reign of Charles 1st, a/ country girl came ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] [Burns][Lady Mary Anne]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'and then abroad by water to White-hall and to Westminster-hall and there bought the first news-books of Lestrange's writing, he beginning this week; and makes methink bu...Samuel Pepys [Robert] [L'Estrange]The IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched his harp and nations heard, entranced/ As some vast ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] [Pollock]The Course of Time [extract]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'To church again; and so home to my wife and with her read "Iter boreale", a poem made just at the King's coming home but I never read it before, and now like it pretty w...Samuel Pepys [Robert] [Wild]Iter borealePrint: Book
1600-1699'And so home and to supper, and then saw the Catalogue of my books which my brother hath wrote out, now perfectly Alphabetical; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [Samuel and John] Pepys[Catalogue of his books]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr John...Christopher Thomson [Samuel?] Johnson[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Johnson's "Lives" (I had re...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Samuel] JohnsonLives [of the most eminent English poets]Print: Book
1600-1699'I went up vexed to my chamber and there fell examining my new "Concordance" that I have bought with Newmans, the best that ever was out before, and I find mine altogethe...Samuel Pepys [Samuel] [Newman]A concordance to the Holy ScripturesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; the preface to "Belle...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Samuel] [Parr]Bellendenus [preface to]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 6th Oct. 1943 Howard R. Smith in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.
[...]
5. Kenneth Ni...		Francis E. Pollard [seven anonymous authors] [extracts from seven unspecified prose writings]Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages, and ultimately Willia...Samuel Bamford [the great poets]  Print: Unknown


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