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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
 
1850-1899'Is not this verse pretty? Thou wast that all [sic] to me, love, For which my soul did pine -- A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine.' Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan PoeTo One in Paradise (1834)Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'It is now 7 o'clock ... Wm. is still on his bed ... I continued to read to him. We were much delighte...Dorothy Wordsworth Ben JonsonTo PenshurstPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 February, 1802: 'It was a pleasant afternoon. I ate a little bit of cold mutton ... and then sate over the fire, reading...Dorothy Wordsworth Ben JonsonTo PenshurstPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 23rd August I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the Ashes? on a poster. On the street of one poor gam...Gerald Moore Edna LyallTo Right the WrongPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Ourry September 8 1791 'The twin sister of my Petrina has been very unwell. I regarded her danger with composure that excited my own wonder. Perhaps like Bu...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Robert BurnsTo ruinPrint: Book
1700-1799[Jack Pilkington gives an introduction to his now deceased mother's third volume of memoirs, relating how he wrote a poem 'To Samuel Foote Esq, on seeing his Englishman i...Samuel Foote John Carteret PilkingtonTo Samuel Foote, Esq. on seeing his Englishman in ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'We had a few business connections with Prague in pre-war days, and our customers' knowledge of English always impressed rue, and within the last year I have read three b... unknownTo sing with the AngelsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ”To the Butterfly” by Samuel Rogers.Catherine Austen Samuel RogersTo the ButterflyUnknown
1900-1945'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evans read several short poems showing the two aspects o...R.B. Graham William BlakeTo the DeistsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the las...		Francis E. Pollard William BlakeTo the Evening StarUnknown
'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944
    A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the las...		Francis E. Pollard William BlakeTo the Evening StarUnknown
1800-1849Duncan Wu identifies poem transcribed in Wordsworth Commonplace Book and opening 'Sweet scented flow'r! who'rt wont to bloom / On January's front severe ... ' as Henry Ki...Wordsworth FamilyHenry Kirke WhiteTo the Herb RosemaryManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her poem 'to the Hon. Colonel Duncombe', which she sent to Lord Augustus Fitz Roy] 'Lord Augustus did not fail to shew the Lines to all the Noblemen at [it...gentlemen at White's ClubLaetitia PilkingtonTo The Hon. Colonel DuncombeManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her poem 'to the Hon. Colonel Duncombe', which she sent to Lord Augustus Fitz Roy] 'Lord Augustus did not fail to shew the Lines to all the Noblemen at [it...Augustus, Lord Fitzroy Laetitia PilkingtonTo The Hon. Colonel DuncombeManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Henry Savile, 'To the King'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Henry SavileTo the KingUnknown
1800-1849'Verses / Spencer' 'Too late I staid, forgive the crime; /...' [transcript of poem]Mary Groom William Robert SpencerTo The Lady Anne HamiltonUnknown
1900-1945[Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also revered - "To the Lighthouse" above all - even if so...Rosamond Lehmann Virginia WoolfTo the LighthousePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Stephen Spender, 10 July 1934: 'I'm so happy that you read the Lighthouse with pleasure, when there are so many other books you might be reading.' Stephen Spender Virginia WoolfTo the LighthousePrint: Book
1900-1945'But everything is blurred to a haze by your book of which I have just read the last words, and that is the only thing which seems real. I can only say that I am dazzled...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfTo the LighthousePrint: Book
1900-1945'"I'm in the middle of the Lighthouse, ekeing it out so that it will last. Why doesn't she publish a book every day? and what fun to be in at the birth of books quite as...Hugh Walpole Virginia WoolfTo the LighthousePrint: Book


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