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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
 
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mythology & with no knowledge of Indian life, to do justice...Alfred Rawlings Francis William Bain'Syrup of the Bees'Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday May 29th. [...] Read Tableau de Societe de P-- [...] Le Baune [sic].'Claire Clairmont Charles Antoine Guillaume Pigault-Lebrun'Tableaux de Societe'Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of...Alfred Tennyson 'Take My Love'Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909: 'I never thanked you for the books [...] they are a godsend especially as I have jus...Leonard Woolf Guy de Maupassant'tale'Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (c. August 1802): 'Mama, my aunt, Corisande and Caro Ponsonby have been spending 2 or 3 days at Brocket Ha...William Lamb and Caroline Ponsonby 'tales of wonder'Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844: 'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's book [Letters on Mesmerism]. I am afraid of it. The old...Harriet Countess Granville Harriet Martineau'tales'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844: 'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's book [Letters on Mesmerism]. I am afraid of it. The old...Harriet Countess Granville Harriet Martineau'tales'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 February 1844: 'Do you happen to know anything of the Irish tales of Carlton [sic]? Some [italics]extr...Richard Hengist Horne Wiliam Carleton'tales' (extracts)Print: Unknown
1800-1849In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from 'Tam O'Shanter,' and "Lament for James Earl of Glencairn,' both by Robert ...Claire Clairmont Robert Burns'Tam O' Shanter'Unknown
1800-1849'Friday September [...] 30th. [...] After dinner read to Johnny the story of Tarlton.'Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'Tarlton'Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in the Evening.'Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'Tarlton'Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.' Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'Tarlton'Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday October [...] 23rd. [...] Read Tarlton with Johnny.'Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'Tarlton'Print: Book
1800-1849'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize ...James Hogg John Gibson Lockhart'Testimonium, A Prize Poem by James Scott, Esq.'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the top...Florence Reynolds John Masefield'Tewkesbury Road'Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] "Sir, you know the notion of confinement may be extended, as in the song, "Every island is a prison." There is, in Dodsley's 'Collection', a copy of vers...Samuel Johnson Edmund Smith'Thales; a monody, sacred to the memory of Dr. Poc...Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I wonder if by any chance you saw Hardy's poem in the last or the December "Harper's Magazine". It is a wonderful story of a master builder who built or greatly ad...William Henry Hudson Thomas Hardy'The Abbey Mason (Inventor of the "Perpendicular" ...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The Affectionate Heart' 'Let the great man, his treasures possessing/...'Carey/Maingay groupJoseph Cottle'The Affectionate Heart'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Though Maga would have the better [sic] of something of mine it is nevertheless an excellent number. "The Age" is inimitable so is "The Currency"and indeed the whole is ...James Hogg John Wilson'The Age - A Poem - in Eight Books' [Blackwood's E...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Coleridge's letter is great stuff but correspondence of the...James Hogg John Galt'The Ayrshire Legatees; Or, The Correspondenceof t...Print: Serial / periodical


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