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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how John Wordsworth received a letter from him: "When your Friend Johnny came from school last night, his mother sai...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas De QuinceyLetterManuscript: Letter
Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how she and her brother William received a letter from him: "Yesterday morning my brother and I walked to Rydale, and he...William and Dorothy WordsworthThomas De QuinceyletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes Wordsworth family's anxieties at hearing (false)rumour of death of Tom Clarkson, in letter to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'We anxiousl...Wordsworth Family  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describing progress of electioneering in Kendal to Sara Hutchinson, 24 March 1818: 'This morning ... [William Crackenthorp] called ... just before he...William Crackenthorp Thomas Clarksonletter to Mr WakefieldUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth reflects on prospect that her brother William might turn to newspaper journalism for a living: 'This reminds me of the last Edinburgh Review which I sa...Dorothy Wordsworth Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson [about 14 Sept. 1813]: 'We have had no time to read Newspapers [with decoration of Rydal Mount] but have been obliged to content ...Wordsworth Family  Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 10 January 1817, re visit to Mrs Threlkeld (very fond of C. Clarkson) at Halifax: 'I read her your last letter adding a few word...Dorothy Wordsworth Catherine Clarkson Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'I saw two sections of Hazlitt's Review [of William Wordsworth, The Excursion, in the Examiner] at Rydale, and...Dorothy Wordsworth William HazlittReview of The ExcursionPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'I saw two sections of Hazlitt's Review [of William Wordsworth, The Excursion, in the Examiner] at Rydale, and...Dorothy Wordsworth Examiner, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'Your anecdote of Tom [?Thomas Clarkson] that he sate up all night reading William's poem gave me as much plea...Tom ?Clarkson William Wordsworth?Excursion, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 12 May 1811: 'We have had no leisure for reading. I have not opened a Book except on a Sunday, and when the rest of the family ...Dorothy Wordsworth Philip BeaverAfrican Memoranda: relative to an attempt to estab...Print: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 14 August 1811: 'I have read nothing since I wrote to you except bits here and there and the Novel of John Bunkle - but I am goi...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas AmoryThe Life of John BunclePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 18 Novembr [1809]: 'Sara [Hutchinson] has been kept almost constantly busy in transcribing ... For William [Wordsworth] she has ...Sara Hutchinson William WordsworthIntroduction to Select Views in Cumberland, Westmo...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 23 December 1815: 'We have now nine sheets of the journal [by Captain Luff re time in Mauritius] - I do not intend to read it un...Dorothy Wordsworth Captain LuffjournalManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 27 December 1811: 'To diminish the evil [of smoking chimneys] we have a constant fire in Sara's room where we are now sitting at...John Wordsworth  Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 28 June 1815, on learning of abdication of Napoleon: '11 o'clock. Before I go to bed I must tell you that, saving grief for the...Dorothy Wordsworth  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 28 June 1815: 'I have seen the British Critic which contains a Review by a Friend of the Coleridges' which between ourselves I t...Dorothy Wordsworth British CriticPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 3 September [1820]: 'How admirable and to me astonishing the ardour and industry of your good husband - to think of writing a se...Thomas Clarkson Thomas ClarksonsermonUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 30 March 1818: 'Mr Clarkson's letter [refusing support to Lowther interest in Westmorland elections] was published in yesterday'...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas Clarkson Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 31 December 1815: 'In reading the 3rd Book of the Excursion last night what a pang did I feel for our poor widowed Friend Mrs Lu...Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthExcursion, TheManuscript: UnknownUnknown


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