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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
 
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, verses by Lady Jane Grey beginning: 'be Constant be Constant Feare not for Pain'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Lady Jane Grey'Be Constant'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, mid-May 1837: 'I am very much obliged by your kindness in allowing me to read the MS dramatic poems -- it seems to me that...Elizabeth Barrett Lady Margaret Cocksdramatic poemsManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Lady Margaret Majendie Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Mary Shepherd, c.July 1828: 'I am reduced to the necessity of offering my [italics]written[end italics] but warm thanks, for the valuable pre...Elizabeth Barrett Lady Mary ShepherdEssays on the Perception of an External UniversePrint: Book
1800-1849'"In reading Lady Mary W Montagu's letters, whi[ch] we have had lately, I continually felt a want - I had not the least affection for her" D[orothy] W[ordsworth] to Lady ...Dorothy Wordsworth Lady Mary Wortley MontaguLettersUnknown
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] I sat down to read [in the study] till our room shou...Henry James Lady Mary Wortley MontaguLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:] 'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read the death of Adam. It is extremely fine, but so p...Catherine Talbot and familyLady Mary Wortley MontaguTurkish Embassy LettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 29 September 1837: 'I confess to you that I utterly dislike Lady Mary! [...] She had a hard shining imagination, instead o...Elizabeth Barrett Lady Mary Wortley MontagueLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be...Thomas Carlyle Lady Sidney MorganRoderick, the Last of the GothsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be...Thomas Carlyle Lady Sidney Owenson MorganFrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'The only gleam of romance I had in connection with the place [a house in John St, Bedford Row, London] was derived from the fact that the large bare house reminded me of...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Laetitia HawkinsCountess and Gertrude, The; or, Modes of Disciplin...Print: Book
1800-1849Accurate transcript of complete text, probably from The Improvisatrice.member of Carey/Maingay groupLaetitia LandonWhen Should Lovers Breathe Their Vows?Unknown
1800-1849Transcript of poem partially obscured by later use of the manuscript as a scrapbook. Probably copied from The Improvisatrice.member of Carey/Maingay groupLaetitia LandonThe Soldier's GraveUnknown
1800-1849'The Change' 'And this is what is left of youth/...' [in 'Fragments' section of 1831 text]Carey/Maingay groupLaetitia LandonChangePrint: UnknownUnknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scribbling, and seem'd so well pleased with my Rhymes, t...Laetitia Pilkington Laetitia PilkingtonPaperManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scribbling, and seem'd so well pleased with my Rhymes, t...'a Lady of Distinction' Laetitia PilkingtonPaperManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attributed to another, and a poem for his birthday] 'I send y...Jonathan Swift Laetitia PilkingtonPaperPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scribbling, and seem'd so well pleased with my Rhymes, t...Anne Wainwright Laetitia PilkingtonPaperManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scribbling, and seem'd so well pleased with my Rhymes, t...John, Baron Wainwright Laetitia PilkingtonPaperManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attributed to another, and a poem for his birthday] 'I send y...Jonathan Swift Laetitia PilkingtonSent with a Quill to Dr SwiftManuscript: Unknown


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