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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
 
1800-1849'I ought to have written long ago to thank you, both for Percy & myself for your welcome Volume. It tries hard to be as great a favourite as the first - and "Wit and Humo...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntWit and HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'In looking over my note I find that I have not half said all I think of the admirable manner you treat the subject of your book in the preface. Did you ever read any of ...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntWit and HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Your kind present was most welcome [Mary then writes at length about her bad health] I have read a great deal of your volumes with great pleasure recognizing old friends...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntMen, Women, and books: a selection of Sketches, Es...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 3 December 1844: 'I am grateful enough to [Leigh Hunt] [...] having, .. in addition to all former causes of gratitude, .....Elizabeth Barrett Leigh HuntImagination and FancyPrint: Book
1900-1945[Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can take the trouble to quote from Leigh Hunt's memoirs ...Virginia Woolf Leigh HuntThe Autobiography of Leigh HuntPrint: Book
1800-1849'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of...Savile Morton and Alfred TennysonLeigh HuntpoemsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni -- evidently because it was t...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Leigh HuntRiminiPrint: Book
1800-1849'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni -- evidently because it was t...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Leigh HuntRiminiPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831: 'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt makes more of Moore's letters than they deserve. I ce...John Wilson Croker Leigh HuntThe TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831: 'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt makes more of Moore's letters than they deserve. I ce...John Wilson Croker Leigh HuntRiminiPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publishers, Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 25 December 1847: 'Permit me to thank you for your present, which reached me yesterda...Charlotte Bronte Leigh HuntA Jar of Honey from Mount HyblaPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 16 April 1849:

'I took up Leigh Hunt's book "The Town" with the impression that it would be interesting only to Londoners...		Charlotte Brontë Leigh HuntThe TownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘A fairly idle day. I did pay parade etc. and read Leigh Hunt.' Edmund Blunden Leigh HuntSir Ralph Esher OR PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In reading, nothing goes to the heart like any true account of a mother and son's love for one another, such as we find in that true book I have already spoken of ...William Henry Hudson Leigh HuntThe Autobiography of Leigh HuntPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 1 January 1840: 'Read Examiner [...] but could not write at all. Made a cap, therefore.'Harriet Martineau Leigh Hunt (ed)The ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators'Mary Shelley Leigh Hunt (ed.)Indicator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Byron's Magazine or rather Hunt's 'The Liberal' is arrived in town; but they will not sell it - it is so full of Atheism and Radicalism and other noxious isms. I had a ...Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)The LiberalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'At present the honest people of "the letters" are much shocked at the appearance of Byron's and Hunt's Magazine "The Liberal", which hardly one of the Bibliopolists will...Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)The LiberalPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, The LiberalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (December 1806): 'We had the Examiner yesterday. Mr. Hunt's jokes are really wretched. I am more convinced...Devonshire familyLeigh Hunt et alThe ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In June, a three-volume novel titled "Circe's Lovers" appeared, written by Leith Derwent (the pseudonym of John Veitch), a friend of Osborne. Interested in this novelist...Arthur Symons Leith Derwent [pseud.]Circe's LoversPrint: Book


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