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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'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as much as you please. She is delightful exquisite in h...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell MitfordBelford RegisPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', headed 'Bugiasta or Pagiastra, or something of the kind;...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mary Russell MitfordRienziPrint: Book
1800-1849'My dear Miss Mitford, Your good and kind father has just given Nancy a copy of a little volume of poems, in which I find the verses on Maria's winning the cup at Ilsley ...William Cobbett Mary Russell MitfordMiscellaneous PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'My dear sir [...] Your daughter's very amiable and interesting book is quite a refreshment to my spirit, wearied on the one hand by labour and on the other by pain; for ...S.J. Pratt Mary Russell MitfordMiscellaneous PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sir, I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of a volume of poems which Messrs. Longman transmitted to me a few days since, and for which I am indebted to your politeness...J. Mitford Mary Russell MitfordMiscellaneous PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The story of "Blanch", when the poem becomes fashionable, will be dramatized... I cannot help thinking it would make a good drama. The story is busy and pathetic. For t...J.P. Smith Mary Russell MitfordBlanch of Castile and other poemsManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Madam, I am really ashamed of not having answered your very obliging and interesting letter, and not hving acknowledged the receipt of the pretty poem which you have don...Lord Holland Mary Russell MitfordPoems on the Female CharacterManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'I have just finished your poem of "The Sisters", and tell you truly and fairly that I read it with an interest and delight which I cannot express. I like it better than ...Sir William Elford Mary Russell MitfordThe SistersPrint: Book
1800-1849[He wishes to express] 'the high gratification I have received from the perusal of "Foscari". I must frankly tell you that the play has very much surprised me. I gave yo...P. Bayley Mary Russell MitfordFoscariManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I was much better pleased with it ["Foscari"] than I expected, though I can truly add that my expectations were somewhat highly raised. The interest begins at once, and...Eleanor Anne Porden Mary Russell MitfordFoscariManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Thank you for it ["Cromwell"]. It is a strange, clever, absurd, lively, queer, farcical, indescribable production. It is impossible not to be amused - impossible not occ...Dr Milman Mary Russell MitfordCromwellManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Madam, I can hardly feel that I am addressing an entire stranger in the author of "Our Village", and yet I know it is right and proper that I should apologize for the li...Felicia Hemans Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'We have not got a circulating library. It was too near Glasgow to thrive, and I am no ways acquainted in Glasgow. I am, therefore, famishing for the want of books. I ha...Mary Russell MitfordFanny's FairingsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Dear Madam, Accept my best thanks for the copy of "Rienzi", and allow me to assure you that it has not been thrown away, for, as [Rev William] Harness can bear witness, ...Alexander Dyce Mary Russell MitfordRienziPrint: Book
1800-1849'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for your name.. I have read whole pages of extracts from...Frances Trollope Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German Empire," I take the liberty of sending them to you [....G.E. Lynch Cotton Mary Russell MitfordTragediesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In your delightful sketch of Grace Nugent I was much amused by the donkey messengers. Such mercuries are common in Suffold, and I greeted your boys as old acquaintances...Susanna Strickland Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'My dear Miss Mitford, I cannot employ the formal address of a stranger towards one who has inspired the vivid feeling of intimate acquaintance, a deep and affectionate i...Catharine M. Sedgwick Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'My dear Miss Mitford,I cannot miss the opportunity my aunt allows me of writing to the author of "Our Village," to express my interest in her, and in the perusal of her ...Kate Sedgwick Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'She speaks of "Inez" as about to be produced. I have been long expecting to hear that it was out. Do you remember reading it to me (excepting the fourth act, which was n...Fanny Trollope Mary Russell MitfordInezManuscript: Unknown


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