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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
 
1800-1849Sunday, 27 February 1831: 'Being Saturday no Mr. Laidlaw [amanuensis] came yesterday evening nor to-day being Sunday. Truth is I began to fear I was working too hard a...Walter Scott 'German novels'Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?10 November 1850: 'By the British Review, do you mean the [italics]North British[end italics]? I read a clever article in t...Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'German Socialism'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your others and as long as that is admired (which it ever wil...James Hogg Walter Scott'Glenfinlas; Or, Lord Ronald's Coronach'Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Abercorn] returns Walpole, as he says since the age of fi...Marquess of Abercorn 'Grecian history and antiquity'Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Aug. 31st. [...] A. drove to the Lewes'. He read to them, and last of all at G. H. Lewes' request "Guinevere," which made George ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Guinevere'Unknown
1800-1849Sir Robert Peel to John Murray, 7 July 1840: 'I forgot to thank you for the last edition of the Handbook, but I have found leisure to look into it, and have read man...Sir Robert Peel 'Handbook'Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been longing to be back among you all, and feeling very lonely this afternoon. Since then I have been reading Tennyson's splendid "Ode to the Duke of Wellin...Robert Dunlop Smith Henry Newbolt'He Fell Among Thieves'
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's 'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Re...Edward Pordage John Dryden'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Me...Print: Book
1800-1849James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834: 'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them, and so does composing. I believe it was a series of...William Wordsworth William Wordsworth'Highland sonnets'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 6 November 1807: 'Lady Elizabeth [Foster, Lady Harriet's father's mistress] went to the play last night a...William Cavendish 'Hint to a Young Reviewer'Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 6 November 1807: 'Lady Elizabeth [Foster, Lady Harriet's father's mistress] went to the play last night a...Lady Harriet Cavendish 'Hint to a Young Reviewer'Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1800-1849'Sunday April 18th. Read Regner Lodborg a history of Chivalry'.Claire Clairmont unknown'Histoire de Rigda et de Regner Lodborg'Print: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstr...Elizabeth Barrett unknown'History of England and Rome'Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday June 25th. [...] Read Edinburgh Review [...] Read a History of England, written in french [sic] by a Jew after the manner of the Bible [quotes/cites various exa...Claire Clairmont unknown'History of England' (French-language text)Print: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Mins...Elizabeth Barrett unknown'History of Greece'Print: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromw...Alfred and Emily TennysonHenry Hallam'History'Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 December 1763:] 'Have you read Mrs Macaulay's history? I have seen only some extracts from it, which seemed to be writ with st...Elizabeth Carter Catherine Macaulay'History' [extracts]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Battle of Hohenlinden' 'On Linden when the Sun was low/...'Carey/Maingay groupThomas Campbell'Hohenlinden' OR [The Pleasures of Hope]Print: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...William Henry Smith Rudyard Kipling'How the Camel got his Hump'Print: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday April 20th. Read Huon de Bordeaux'.Claire Clairmont unknown'Huon de Bordeaux'Print: Book


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