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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
 
1850-1899'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then started [?] upon. The Mad Tea Party by Mr A.L. Goad...Elizabeth Edminson Lewis Carroll [pseud.]'Jabberwocky' [from Through the Looking-Glass and ...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836: 'Jesse Cliffe -- I have read it! [italics]Thank you for it![end italics] and you must hear that from so ma...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell Mitford'Jesse Cliffe'Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 23 September 1802: 'I am now going, my dearest G. (depending upon your secrecy), to transcribe for you so...Lady Harriet Cavendish George Lamb'John O'Thanet'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise to considerable discussion. Mrs Evans read from Rich...Charles Evans George Meredith'Juggling Jerry'Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919: 'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and admiring them all. "Kenneth" made me laugh so nicely. T...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest Reid'Kenneth'Print: Book
1850-1899'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.'George Eliot (pseud) unknown'Kestner letters'Print: Unknown
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? "Knickerbocker." Mr. Irving has a charming English s...John Wilson Croker Washington Irving'Knickerbocker'Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday [...] January 12th. [...] read Hoffman (Kreussleriana [sic]) untill bed-time.'Claire Clairmont E. T. W. Hoffmann'Kreisleriana'Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the German's tale'Mary Shelley Harriet Lee'Kruitzner or the German's tale'Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley John Milton'L'Allegro'Print: Book
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his ...Hester Lynch Thrale John Milton'L'Allegro'Print: Book
1800-1849Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28 January 1839: 'You may fancy our surprise when, upon opening the Athenaeum, on Saturday, the first thing Papa saw, w...Edward Moulton-Barrett Elizabeth Barrett'L.E.L.'s Last Question'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Communication between these poets and myself was instantaneous. I saw with delighted amazement that all poetry had been written specially for me. Although I spoke - in m...Dorothy Burnham Keats 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Saturday April 17th. [...] Read La Fleur des Batailles a history of Chivalry'.Claire Clairmont unknown'La Fleur des Batailles'Print: Book
1800-1849'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight your old friend for such feminine frible-frable! Wils...James Hogg Caroline Bowles Southey'La petite Madelaine'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interesting [...] I send you a book; pray read it -- "Lady C...Lady Caroline Lamb 'Lady Calantha Limb'Print: Book
1850-1899'Do you know that little poem of Hood's called [']the Lady's Dream'; because it is so true what he says about evil being done by [italics] want of thought [end italics].'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Hood'Lady's Dream, The'Print: Unknown
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1850-1899		'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to...Harriet Martineau Thomas De Quincey'Lake Reminiscences, from 1807-1830. By the Englis...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry" T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto" M...Mary Pollard W. Watson'Lakeland'Print: Book
1800-1849In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from 'Tam O'Shanter,' and "Lament for James Earl of Glencairn,' both by Robert ...Claire Clairmont Robert Burns'Lament for James Earl of Glencairn'Unknown


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