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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'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTimon of AthensPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Timon of Athens'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTimon of AthensPrint: Book
1900-1945'In a little book of poems by J S Squire called Twelve Poems there is one poem called March which I think quite beautiful. Do you know Mr Squire? ... He writes to m...Maurice Baring William ShakespeareTimon of AthensPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] August [1914:] By waters of Germany.
Queenie's whim.
Timothy's Guest.
Basil Lyndhurst.
Highway of Fate.
Lamp Lighter
Boo...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Kate Douglas WigginTimothy's QuestPrint: Book
1800-1849'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in Ger...Thomas Carlyle Auguste Heinrich Julius LafontaineTinchen oder die MannerprobePrint: Book
1900-1945'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following. 1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge 2. A paper by E.E. Unwin on the neo-Irish theatre 3...Members of XII Book ClubJohn Millington SyngeTinker's Wedding, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading some of Wordsworth ... I think 'Tintern Abbey' is quite lovely. It seems to me Wordsworth has got a most wonderful way of putting into words feel...Emily Lytton William WordsworthTintern AbbeyPrint: Book
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'In the year 1885 [...] were published Tiresias, and Other Poems, by Alfred Lord Tennyson. For a copy of this remarkable volume...John Tyndall Alfred TennysonTiresias and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'A sudden attack of influenza had made my father ill again. Despite his growing weakness, his interest in the larger politics...Hallam Tennyson Tithes BillPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'A pack of sheets came down on Monday morning, with a long letter from the Bibliophile requiring an alteration in the Title-page and Preface; then Jonathan on Wednesday m...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleTitle page and preface of 'German Romance'Print: Title page and prefaceManuscript: Letter
1800-1849This is emphatic enough.- I need not speak of Dr Chalmers' boisterous treatise upon the causes & cure of pauperism in the last Edinr review. His reasoning (so they call ...Thomas Carlyle Dr ChalmersTitle unknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'to the London Library where I looked through Selden's "Titles of Honour"'George Eliot [pseud] John SeldenTitles of HonourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareTitus AndronicusPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andronicus, & Coriolanus.'Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareTitus AndronicusPrint: Book
1800-1849'To A Dilatory Correspondent' 'Much as thy Silence I admire/...' [4, 6 line stanzas]Carey/Maingay groupBernard BartonTo A Dilatory CorrespondentPrint: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945‘I had to thrust aside my “Cambridge Magazine” with Siegfried Sassoon’s splendid war on the war in it. ’ Edmund Blunden Siegfried SassoonTo Any Dead Officer (Who Left School for the Army ...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Walter BesantTo Call Her MinePrint: Book
1700-1799[LP reproduces her poem 'To Colley Cibber, Esq.] 'Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] received these Lines with his usual Partiality to me, and my Performances'.Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Colley Cibber, EsqManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[On New Year's Day, 1743, LP published verses in the 'Gazette' in honour of Colley Cibber] 'My dear old Friend was pleased with my Sense of his Goodness to me; only he to...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Colley Cibber, esq.Print: Newspaper
1700-1799[LP wrote a poem 'To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield'] 'just as I had finished this poem, [italics] Worsdale came in, and snatched it from me, saying, he would se...James Worsdale Laetitia PilkingtonTo his Excellency the Earl of ChesterfieldManuscript: Unknown


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