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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeDomestic Manners of the AmericansPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither...Elizabeth Barrett Edward George Bulwer-Lyttonnovels including The DisownedPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 23 January 1837: 'I have read Coombs [sic] Phrenology [...] [It] is very clever, & amusing; but I do not think it logical or satis...Elizabeth Barrett George CombeElements of PhrenologyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 6 January 1845: 'Have you read Mr Serjeant Talfourd's "Rambles & thoughts"? With some wordiness, & faults of taste otherwise, it is a v...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Noon TalfourdVacation Rambles and ThoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 7 December 1836: 'I have been reading [...] Sheridan Knowles's play of "The Wreckers" [sic]. It is full of passion and pathos, --...Elizabeth Barrett Sheridan KnowlesThe Wrecker's DaughterPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 7 September 1833: 'Dr Clarke's doctrines are not always & altogether and strictly Scriptural; but on all essential doctrines, he i...Elizabeth Barrett An Account of the Infancy, Religious and Literary ...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 14 September 1834: 'Have you seen a poetical translation of Klopstock's messiah, the performance of a lady residing close t...Elizabeth Barrett Gottlieb Friedrich KlopstockThe MessiahPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833: 'Do you know Herbert's poems? [Mr Hunter] lent them to me a week ago [...] His poetry has a more spiritu...Elizabeth Barrett George HerbertpoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833: 'Just at this moment I am busy with Plato, trying to find out from the Parmenides what [italics]one[end i...Elizabeth Barrett Plato ParmenidesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers rea...younger Moulton-Barrett brothers Greek text/sPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers rea...Elizabeth Barrett Hebrew BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers rea...Elizabeth Barrett Edward George Bulwer-LyttonPelham, or The Adventures of a GentlemanPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 31 December 1832: 'I have had my hands & head full of a book called the Greek Theatre, composed in part of extracts, & edit...Elizabeth Barrett August Wilhelm von SchlegelUber dramatische Kunst und Literatur (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 31 December 1832: 'I have had my hands & head full of a book called the Greek Theatre, composed in part of extracts, & edit...Elizabeth Barrett The Theatre of the GreeksPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 9 December 1835: 'Have you seen Serjeant Talfourd's new tragedy, the Ion [...] He has been kind & flattering enough to send...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Noon TalfourdIonUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 9 December 1835: 'I have read lately Stilling's autobiography; & was by turns touched & amused by it. It is an instance of...Elizabeth Barrett Johann Heinrich Jung-StillingautobiographyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835: 'Dr Brown's philosophy! No philosophy is like it. Poetry knows the place of his soul [...] I have gone t...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas BrownLectures on the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835: 'The Bridgewater treatises seem to me (I have not read them all) very unequal [...] They are not consiste...Elizabeth Barrett William KirbyThe Habits and Instincts of AnimalsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Mary Shepherd, c.July 1828: 'I am reduced to the necessity of offering my [italics]written[end italics] but warm thanks, for the valuable pre...Elizabeth Barrett Lady Mary ShepherdEssays on the Perception of an External UniversePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 April 1842: 'I read the Beggar girl, when I was very young'.Elizabeth Barrett Agnes Maria BennettThe Beggar Girl and Her BenefactorsPrint: Book


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