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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'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; and a good deal of Petronius; ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone Petronius[Works]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. ... ;one book of Machiavelli's "History"...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Niccolo] Machiavelli[Works]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] Warburton on the Sixth Book...Mountstuart Elphinstone Virgil[Works]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] Warburton on the Sixth Book...Mountstuart Elphinstone Virgil[Works]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] ...; I forgot to mention a g...Mountstuart Elphinstone Horace Walpole[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'read greek - read Mackenzies works'Mary Shelley Henry Mackenzie[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney Ludovico Ariosto[Works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen Charles Dickens[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe had sent Scott, who already had one, a set of his works - he explained later that he'd intended it for Mrs Scott. Scott responded to the present,] to say the tru...Walter Scott George Crabbe[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe had sent Scott, who already had one, a set of his works - he explained later that he'd intended it for Mrs Scott. Scott responded to the present,] to say the tru...Walter Scott's childrenGeorge Crabbe[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Our lord of the "cairn & the scaur" waste wilderness and hundred hills for many a league around is the Duke of Buccleuch the head of my clan a kind & benevolent landlord...Charles William Montagu Scott and Harriet Katherine Townshend, Duke and Duchess of BuccleuchGeorge Crabbe[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr Murray made me a present of the 5 Octavo Vols of Mr Irvings Works, the Sketch-Book & some others: I do understand this but it is not of Importance that I should'George Crabbe Washington Irving[Works]Print: Book
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White David Herbert Lawrence[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading Carlyle as usual. What a man! ... When I read men like C., I pant along happily at their skirts, thinking myself safe and then, not even knowing I'm there, ...Antonia White Thomas Carlyle[Works]Print: Book
1900-1945'At present sunk deep in Harriet Martineau: very much attracted in spite of her complacent priggishness and self-righteousness. A very [italics] true [end italics] nature...Antonia White Harriet Martineau[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Remember with great pleasure weeks recovering from abortion in 1924 and for once holding my life in suspension, not wanting anything, not even concerned with the future,...Antonia White Marcel Proust[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'When I read Rilke I seem to understand her ['Roberta's] death... she really had carried it about with her, nourished it, achieved it' [alluding to story about Rilke's de...Antonia White Rainer Maria Rilke[works]Print: Book
1800-1849'I believe most people would say of the four-and-twenty volumes, what I have known parents of large families do of their children: "you may think them a great many, yet t...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter Scott[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'What a pity it is that Mr B[entham] carries this oddity of language [which AR has just been joking about] into his works. It makes them unreadible [sic] and of much less...Anne Romilly Jeremy Bentham[works]Print: Book
1700-1799'he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them. He used to mention ...Samuel Johnson Petrarch[works]Print: Book


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