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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
 
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to G. E. Moore, 4 January 1909: 'I don't think you realize how pleased I was to get your letter & paper [...] I read your paper but to tell the actual tr...Leonard Woolf G. E. Moore'Professor James' "Pragmatism"'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844: 'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me so much offence by the prose note attached to it beg...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Monckton Milnes'Projected Railways in Westmoreland. An Answer to ...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:] 'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a most excellent companion to me. Do you remember the ...Catherine Talbot Carlo Maggi'Prologue to a comedy of Plautus'Print: Book
1850-1899'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some char...Elizabeth Ann Smith Robert Browning'Prospice'Print: Book
1700-1799[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I am also much obliged to you for the little book, which seems composed with a pious spirit; but I own calling th...Anne Donnellan 'Psalms'Print: Book
1850-1899'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, or Octr, 1860 for a short poem by 'Edward Wilberforc...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Edward Wilberforce'Purgatory'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as possible [...] the result of "Ragged Lady", the "Silver...Henry James William Dean Howells'Pursuit of the Piano' (short story)Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Thanks so much for your two letters & the copies of "Flying" books — very good. I am afraid I didn't think much of Boyd Cable's story "Quick Work". The maniac of a pilot...Guy Mainwaring Knocker Boyd Cable (pseud.)'Quick Work'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginnin...Edward Morgan Forster Henry Vaughan'Quickness'Print: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 23 February 1845: 'Arnould is a happiness to see and know [...] I send, with this [letter], a Review with an article of his -- "Rabelais...Robert Browning Joseph Arnould'Rabelais and His Times' (review of various works ...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 March 1751: 'You need not make any apologies about my Rambler [No. 100]. I had no idea when I sent it to you that it was worth ...Elizabeth Carter Samuel Richardson'Rambler' [essay]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, in response to Carter's attack on the perceived misogyny of Richardson's 'Rambler' essay: 'Fie upon you! indeed I see no harm in ...Catherine Talbot Samuel Richardson'Rambler' [essay]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 24 March 1751: 'Well according to your advice I have given Mr Richardson another reading, and confess myself to have been too muc...Elizabeth Carter Samuel Richardson'Rambler' [essay]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844: 'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh Review, .. by whom? -- and I have been reading besi...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Rogers'Recent Developments of Puseyism'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844: 'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in the reading. Do let him understand how obliged to hi...Elizabeth Barrett Sophocles'recognised fragments of Sophocles'Print: Book
1800-1849'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear friend Cunninghame the author of The Cameronians Surely ...James Hogg Allan Cunningham'Recollections No. I. - The Cameronians' [in Black...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I like some things in the last Mag. very well but there is a grievious [sic] falling off in Cunningham's Cameronian The one is a drawing from life the other a compositio...James Hogg Allan Cunningham'Recollections of Mark Macrabin the Cameronian'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'When ever I saw your Cameronians I knew the hand but I do not like your last ideal picture half so well as the one you drew from life.'James Hogg Allan Cunningham'Recollections of Mark Macrabin, the Cameronian'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831: 'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Blackstone through, I also read a little treatise by a ...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Hawkins'Reform of Parliament the Ruin of Parliament'Print: Unknown
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763: 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know it -- Pray amongst your French studies have you met...Elizabeth Carter 'refutation of Rousseau's Emile'Print: Unknown


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