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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
 
1800-1849At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninu...Elizabeth Barrett Isocrates Print: Book, Pamphlet
1800-1849They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap: in the Bible, & then went out to walk in the dark.Elizabeth Barrett Antoninus Print: Book
1800-1849I read half the 6th book of Antoninus today ? so I can?t say, after all, perdidi diem [I have lost a day].Elizabeth Barrett Marcus Antoninus Print: Book
1800-1849I read the other half of Antoninus?s sixth book, - & half his seventh, besides. What a creature I am ? to spend my time in this way, between philosophy & folly. Anoninu...Elizabeth Barrett Marcus Antoninus Print: Book
1800-1849On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the end. My energies felt dead within me: & how could I...Elizabeth Barrett Marcus Antoninus Print: Book
1800-1849On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the end. My energies felt dead within me: & how could I...Elizabeth Barrett Marcus Antoninus Print: Book
1800-1849I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very fine poetry. As a whole, it is cumbrous & unwieldy....Elizabeth Barrett Theophrastus Print: Book
1850-1899'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.'Molly Vivian William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899'Among the treasures we rooted out...were an illustrated Prayer Book, gone quite brown with age and damp. When tired of reading we could get laughter out of its absurd pi...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes  Print: Book
1850-1899 'I struggled through one [essay/article] by Gladstone just, in order to be able to say I had, but honestly I understood no single sentence.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Gladstone Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chap...Christopher Thomson John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chap...Christopher Thomson Laurence Sterne Print: Book
1800-1849'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chap...Christopher Thomson Samuel Johnson Print: Book
1800-1849'Circuit preacher Joseph Barker found that theology simply could not compete with Shakespeare: "What pleased me most was the simplicity and beauty of his style. He had a...Joseph Barker William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker William Cowper Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker Alexander Pope Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker John Dryden Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker Oliver Goldsmith Print: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker James Thomson Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker George Gordon Byron Print: Book


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