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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" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Ovid  Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Tacitus  Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Xenophon  Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Herodotus  Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Thucydides  Print: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe John MiltonComplete poetryPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Dante AlighieriDivina CommediaPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Torquato TassoGerusalemme LiberataPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Homer The IliadPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford Robert ParsonThe first booke of the Christian exercise, apperta...Print: Book
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford Thomas SorocoldSupplications of Saints; A booke of prayers: ... W...Print: Book
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford "lady's book of praise of a solitary life"Print: Book
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford "book of the preaparation to the sarament"Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		" ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a very small number of typographical errors."Thomas Babington Macaulay Jane AustennovelsPrint: Book
1600-1699" ... provocative omissions survive in ... [early modern manuscripts including] Lucy Hutchinson's ... translation of Lucretius' De rerum natura ..." Lucy Hutchinson Lucretius De rerum natura
1850-1899" ... tears filled ... [D. G. Rossetti's] eyes as he read about Guy Morville's death in The Heir of Redclyffe."Dante Gabriel Rossetti Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		" ... the crypto-Jacobite virtuoso John Byrom used laudanum to treat his sister, Ellen, after noting that she had been 'disturbed' by reading Clarendon. The treatment pr...Ellen Clarendon Print: Book
1600-1699" ... the surviving volumes owned by the seventeenth-century yeoman-famer William Dowsing ... reveal a scrupulously methodical reader. Dowsing evidently began a book by ...William Dowsing booksPrint: Book


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