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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
 
1800-1849Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: '... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have [seen?] at least a score of one description or anot...George Gordon Lord Byron The Eclectic ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] in M.S. & I then expressed my opinion of their merit...George Gordon, Lord Byron Bernard BartonunknownManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] in M.S. & I then expressed my opinion of their merit...George Gordon, Lord Byron Bernard BartonMetrical EffusionsPrint: Book
Byron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... "Mirandola" [was] not announced till the winter following [summer 1820]. The first time I ...George Gordon Lord Byron advertisement for "Mirandola"Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird, 15 May 1819: 'Three years & some months ago when you were reding [sic] "Bertram" at your brother's -- on my exclaiming in the words o...Charles 8th Lord Kinnaird Charles Robert MaturinBertramUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): '... I read in the Gazette of an Irish lady of 37 who has run away with a young Englishman of...George Gordon Lord Byron GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the proposal of that classical cuckold Perticari ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Count Giulio PerticariDell'amor patrio di DantePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the "few lines" of your note with all due attention ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Countess Teresa Guiccioli[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read this book in your garden ... you were absent -- or I co...George Gordon Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-HolsteinCorinnePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, on current reading habits, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I like sometimes to read one book and sometimes another, a few pag...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[books]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, formerly explorer of the Loo-Choo Islands and now ...George Gordon Lord Byron [Italian Gazettes]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webster ... Amongst the ingredients of this volume I was ...George Gordon, Lord Byron James Wedderburn WebsterWaterloo and Other PoemsPrint: Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1820: 'I have read lately several speeches of Hobhouse in taverns -- his Eloquence is better than his company.'George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam Hobhouse[speeches]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one in the papers -- as secondary to Burdett and Canning....George Gordon Lord Byron Douglas Kinnairdletter (ie article?)Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Dr Samuel Butler, 20 October 1813: 'The little that I have seen by stealth and accident of Charlemagne quite electrified me.'George Gordon, Lord Byron Lucien BuonaparteCharlemagneUnknown
Byron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III, [?April 1817]: 'Sir, In your Journal of 27th...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspaper]Print: NewspaperUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your second volume wherein I have retraced some of my old ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Edward Daniel ClarkeTravels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and ...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... you remember he would not believe that I had written ...George Gordon Lord Byron Henry Brougham[speech]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: "I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is the first English Newspaper (except Galignani's Paris...George Gordon, Lord Byron n/a[English newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Elizabeth Pigot, 2 August 1807: 'I have now a Review before me entitled, "Literary Recreations" where my Bardship is applauded far beyond my Deserts ... [the] cr...George Gordon, Lord Byron VariousMonthly Literary RecreationsPrint: Serial / periodical


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