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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
 
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...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo his Excellency the Earl of ChesterfieldManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'To His Majesty's Ship Barham, appointed by the King to convey Sir Walter Scott to Naples. By William Sotheby Esq.'Bowly groupWilliam SothebyTo His Majesty's Ship BarhamUnknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Corbett, 'To his Son Vincent Corbett'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Richard CorbettTo his Son Vincent CorbettUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o'clock -- mended stockings and Wm. read Peter Bell. ...William Wordsworth William WordsworthTo JoannaUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, and the Firgrove, to Coleridge ... The morning was de...William Wordsworth William WordsworthTo JoannaUnknown
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding John GalsworthyTo LetPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. The remainder of an enjoyable evening was spent in lis...Francis Pollard John GalsworthyTo LetPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday I read the first inst[alment] of "To Let" in a spirit of philistinish curiosity.'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyTo LetPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849May heavenly Angels their soft wings display And guide you safe thro' ev'ry dangerous way In every step may you most happy be And tho far distant often think of me [some ...Sophia Mary MastersTo Marinda at PartingUnknown
1800-1849transcript of the poem headed 'to mary'Mary Groom Bernard BartonTo MaryUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To Mary" - Byron', beginning 'RACK'D by the flames of jealous rage, By all her torments deeply cu...Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord ByronTo MaryUnknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her lengthy poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'This met with a very favourable Reception, and Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] shewed it to all the Noblemen at [italic...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Mr CibberManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her lengthy poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'This met with a very favourable Reception, and Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] shewed it to all the Noblemen at [italic...gentlemen at White's ClubLaetitia PilkingtonTo Mr CibberManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP gives the text of a poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'I sent these Lines to my dear Gentleman, who presently came to me, as I was once more in his Neighbourhood, - and in his che...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Mr CibberManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was inviolable. He was writing the [italics] Character and...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Mr CibberManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of William Cartwright, 'To Mr. W. B. at the Birth of his first Child'. Elizabeth Lyttelton William CartwrightTo Mr. W. B. at the Birth of his first ChildPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/ Which howso'er the sun and sky/ May tempt its bough...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas MooreTo my motherPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'This is E. A. Poe: Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devo...Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan PoeTo my Mother.Print: Book
1800-1849'On 7 July 1809, W[ordsworth] told Thomas Wilkinson that "Mr Coleridge showed me a little poem of yours upon your Birds which gave us all very great pleasure."'Wordsworth FamilyThomas WilkinsonTo My Thrushes, Blackbirds, etc.Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To one at rest/ by the author of/ the Three Wakings'; [Text] 'And needest thou our prayers no more, Safe folded mid t...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Elizabeth Rundle] [Charles]To one at restPrint: Unknown


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