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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
 
1850-189920 December 1884: 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself with Miss Thackeray's sketches of Miss Edgeworth, M...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss Thackeray'sketch [of Amelia Opie]'Print: Unknown
1850-189920 December 1884: 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself with Miss Thackeray's sketches of Miss Edgeworth, M...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss Thackeray'sketch [of Anna Laetitia Barbauld]'Print: Unknown
1850-189920 December 1884: 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself with Miss Thackeray's sketches of Miss Edgeworth, M...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss Thackeray'sketch [of Maria Edgeworth]'Print: Unknown
1850-189918 November 1881: 'This morning I laid in a stock of Tauchnitzes, and am beginning a pleasant sketch of Miss Thackeray's on Mme. de Sevigne.'Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss Thackeray'sketch [on Mme de Sevigne]'Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 25 August 1820: 'I send you a list of new books. Chalmers' sermon, preached after the disturbances i...Harriet Countess Granville 'Sketches of Life and Manners'Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of readings and songs were given as under. What Dic...Walter S. Rowntree William Barnes'Sky Man, the'Print: Book
1800-1849[Gaskell describes handing over the gift of a signed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford] 'I said, 'Look at the title page', for I saw he was fairly caught by some...Samuel Bamford Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Sleeping Beauty, The'Print: Book
1800-1849[Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does not have his own copy - she later asks Forster if he ...Samuel Bamford Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Sleeping Beauty, The'Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 26 April 1852: 'I have lately got hold of a bound copy of Dickens's "Household Words" for 1851. Therein, I have, as yet, only ...Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth Gaskell'Society at Cranford'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in the West Indies and called it the Sugar Cane; it was s...Hester Lynch Thrale James Grainger'Solitude: An Ode'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorable remark I have gathered for fruit of my papers [...John Kenyon Elizabeth Barrett'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorable remark I have gathered for fruit of my papers [...Mary Russell Mitford Elizabeth Barrett'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorable remark I have gathered for fruit of my papers [...Mrs Jamieson Elizabeth Barrett'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorable remark I have gathered for fruit of my papers [...Richard Hengist Horne Elizabeth Barrett'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorable remark I have gathered for fruit of my papers [...Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorable remark I have gathered for fruit of my papers [...George Barrett Hunter Elizabeth Barrett'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goadby in which his many activities were passed in revi...Miss Goadby Miss Goadby'Some Illustrations of Wm Morris's love of nature'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.'Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle'Some passages from the Diary of the late Mr St Jo...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899

'What you have given me is more golden than gold, more precious than any treasure this great country could yield me, though the land be a network of railways, and each...

Oscar Wilde John Keats'Sonnet on Blue'Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Sonnet on Chillon' [transcript of text]Emma Bowly Lord George Gordon Byron'Sonnet on Chillon'Unknown


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