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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
 
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 sermonsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899" ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in good humour ...' [Leigh] Hunt courteously adds, 'Thank...James Henry Leigh Hunt Marcus Aurelius AntoninusMeditationsPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... when he (and all other readers) had failed to decipher the shorthand of [John] Flamsteed's most informed correspondent, Abraham Sharp, [Francis] Baily turned to Cha...Charles Babbage Abraham Sharpshorthand writingsManuscript: Unknown
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1850-1899		" ... within a few pages [of his copy of Philip Nichols's Sir Francis Drake Revived (1626)], [John Ruskin] writes, 'very obscure' (p. 27) ... 'don't understand at all' (p...John Ruskin Philip NicholsSir Francis Drake RevivedPrint: Book
1700-1799" ... [Alexander Pope's surviving books] allow us to be confident about his having read certain works, such as the essays of Montaigne."Alexander Pope Michel de MontaigneessaysPrint: Book
1600-1699" ... [Edmond] Halley's paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge was finally printed in the Philosophical Transactions some thirty years after being read at the [Royal]...Royal SocietyEdmond Halleypaper on the causes of the Noachian delugeUnknown
1850-1899" ... [Henry James] would [after 1872] be a close reader of Renan ... whom he later met."Henry James Joseph Ernest RenanunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] voluminously annotated a Bible for [William Augustus, Lord] Conway's mother."Hester Lynch Piozzi The BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		" ... [John] Donne describes his 'poor Library, where to cast mine eye upon good Authors kindles or refreshes sometimes meditations not unfit to communicate to near frien...John Donne various textsUnknown
1850-1899" ... [Mrs Layton (b. 1855)] remembers, when she was in service, and about sixteen, being lent some 'trashy books' by the servant next door: narratives which came out in ...Mrs Layton popular serial fictionPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849" ... [S. T. Coleridge's] copy of Quentin Durward includes a note that reveals his sense of public duty as an annotator [Coleridge takes issue with Scott's narrator's sug...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... [S. T. Coleridge] in a copy of Gerhard Voss's Poeticarum institutionum, libri tres (1647): 'I have looked thro' this book with some attention, April 21, 1803 --, an...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gerhard VossPoeticarum Institutionum, libri tresPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		" ... [Sir John] Suckling, coming across what he called 'an imperfect Copy' of [Shakespeare's The Rape of] Lucrece, decided to compose his own 'Supplement.'"Sir John Suckling William ShakespeareThe Rape of LucreceUnknown
1800-1849" ... [William Beckford's] copy of ... Stewarton's Revolutionary Plutarch (1806) has notes in only the first of three volumes ... [they] fill half a page, as follows: "'...William Beckford StewartonRevolutionary PlutarchPrint: Book
1700-1799" Began Les Memoires de Madame Maintenon. I doubt whether the vulgarity of stile (sic), absurd anecdotes and impertinent reflections will permit me to read it."Lady Eleanor Butler Madame de MaintenonLes Memoires de Madame de MaintenonPrint: Book
1700-1799" began the Spectator"Lady Eleanor Butler The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession entire, in the shape of a reprint more hideous and more...Edmund Gosse William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance with Keats, who entirely captivated me."Edmund Gosse John Keats Print: Book
1850-1899" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance... with Wordsworth, for the exercise of whose magic I was still far too young...Edmund Gosse William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899" But, if I chose to walk six or seven miles along the coast... I might spend as pocket-money the railway fare I thus saved. Such considerable sums I fostered in order to...Edmund Gosse Samuel Taylor Coleridge[poems]Print: Book


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