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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 had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they had excited my curiosity, and led to inquiry; and, as ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mary Martha Sherwood[Tales]Print: Book
1800-1849'The idea of connecting it ["Laneton Parsonage", by Sewell] with the Church Catechism had been originally suggested to me by Mrs Sherwood's stories on the same subject, w...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mary Martha Sherwood[Tales based on Church Catechism]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Mary Pollard Mary Martha SherwoodThe Fairchild FamilyPrint: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828: 'My dear Miss Mitford, Accept my late, though sincere and cordial congratulations on the brilliant success of "R...Felicia Hemans Mary Russell MitfordRienzi (excerpts)Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 July 1836: 'You have not my dear kind friend thought me unkind and thankless in not writing my gratitude to you the mome...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell MitfordDramatic Scenes, Sonnets and Other PoemsPrint: 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
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?17 March 1837: 'I have read your play [Otto of Wittelsbach] my dearest Miss Mitford, & so you will be obliged to read my ...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell MitfordOtto of WittelsbachManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Hunter (aged 10) to Elizabeth Barrett, quoted in letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1837: '"I read today in a magazine a tale of Miss Mi...Mary Hunter Mary Russell Mitford"The Widow's Dog"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 July 1837: 'Why should we [']'mere balladmongers" have so much to say of ourselves, when the "Country stories" lie cut...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell MitfordCountry StoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 September 1837: 'You certainly shd write Dash [Mitford's dog]'s memoirs! My youngest brothers, to say nothing of my e...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell MitfordLetter to Elizabeth BarrettManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838: 'I have been reading the "Exile," from Marion Campbell, with much interest and delight'.Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell Mitford"The Exile"Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 December 1840: 'You cant guess what my business has been lately [...] my business has been retracing my steps...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell MitfordOur VillagePrint: Book
1800-1849'I think it ["Rienzi"] extremely clever; some scenes are very powerful, and capable of being wrought into a most effective play.'W.C. Macready Mary Russell MitfordRienziManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The first thing which struck me in your essays was the exact accordance between your printed and epistolary style. Are you aware how very little the idea of writing of ...Eleanor Anne Franklin Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841: '[Crow] is an excellent young woman -- intelligent bright-tempered & feeling-hearted, -- more to me than a me...Miss Crow Mary Russell MitfordOur VillagePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841: 'How glad I was to see the graceful stanzas in the Athenaeum! -- Lady Burlington's I mean!' ...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell Mitford'On the Portrait of the Duchess of Burlington, Pai...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 May 1842: 'I cdnt help reading to Crow your beautiful story of your Flush [dog] [...] mine immediately took up the gesture ...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell Mitfordletter to Elizabeth BarrettManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9-10 August 1844: 'Do you remember, by the glance you had, my lovely little cousin Lizzie Barrett [...] Well -- that child...Lizzie Barrett Mary Russell MitfordunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835: 'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five offspring came [...] Meg took them under her especi...Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam Mary Russell MitfordBelford RegisPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of last read and approved


2 For the Next ...

Mary Pollard Mary Russell Mitford'The Gypsy', from Our VillagePrint: Book


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