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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
 
1850-1899Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in love with the man they were to marry, and loved them...Anna Blunden Edmund SpencerThe Faerie QueenPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, c. 26 September 1792: 'I have been attempting Euclid but without a master I could make no progress — perhaps disgust at the dry st...Robert Southey Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ...Thomas Thompson Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sate by a nice snug fire, and William read Spenser, an...William Wordsworth Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945[Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na...Bill Naughton 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 Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Rishton read "The Faerie Queene" to Frances Burney and her sisters, "in which he is extremely delicate, omitting whatever, to the poet's great disgrace, has crept in ...Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though it did include some novels -- Miss Edgeworth's and B...Anne Isabella Milbanke Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading: "'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern...Moll Neville Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though she did include some novels - Miss Edgewort...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely disgusting allegories. Our own Milton, I think, alw...Eleanor Anne Porden Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Spenser these some mornings, while eating my breakfast. He is a dainty little fellow, as ever you saw: I propose that you and he shall be closely acquainted by a...Thomas Carlyle Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'Just now I opened Spencer, and the first Lines I saw were these.- "The noble Heart that harbors vertuous thought, And is with Child of glorious great intent, Can neve...John Keats Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 23 January 1935: 'I am reading the Faery Queen [sic] -- with delight. I shall write about it.'Virginia Woolf Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1700-1799Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751: 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which, upon my first reading it, appeared to be published...Thomas Edwards Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:] 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which, upon my first reading it, appeared to be publish...Thomas Edwards Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading the "Faerie Queene" in Everymans both here and at home ever since I left you.... of course it has dull and even childish passages, but on the whole...Clive Staples Lewis Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1850-1899'Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queen'Sarah Good Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer aloud, and Mary read the first canto of The Fairy Que...Mary Hutchinson Edmund SpenserThe Faerie Queene (Canto I)Print: Book


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