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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
 
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 5 July 1814: 'The Princess [of Wales] sent for me to read a letter that she had sent to the Speaker [re proposed increase to her allowance].'Mary Berry Princess of WalesLetter to the Speaker [?Parliamentary]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (August 1812): 'La Princesse Wilhelmine is not as interesting as she might be. There is so much detai...Harriet Countess Granville Princess WilhelmineMemoirs (vol. 1)Print: Book
1800-1849'I suppose all the World is sitting in Judgement upon the Princess of Wales's Letter. Poor Woman, I shall support her as long as I can, because she is a Woman, & because ...Jane Austen Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttelpublished letter about the status of her marriage ...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'One day, the Princess showed me a large book, in which she had written characters of a great many of the leading persons in England. She read me some of them. They were ...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Princess Caroline Princess of Wales [verbal sketches of well known people]Manuscript: MS book
1800-1849'The Princess received a letter of twenty-eight pages, from the Princess Charlotte, which looked like the writing of a chambermaid, and appeared to me wholly illegible; b...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Princess Charlotte LetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put o...Priscilla Gurney Priscilla GurneySelection of HymnsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: 2 small ms notes laid into v.3 have references to items of interest eg.(1) 'Rupert's drops'; (2) 'From Mental improvement Vol 1st ... Of artificial coral [...Priscilla WakefieldMental improvement: or the beauties and wonders of...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Proclus ProclusThe Philosophical and Mathematical CommentariesPrint: Book
1800-1849Transcription of part of text: 'From Professor Gellerts Moral Lessons / 'Faith in God, the sublime thought...'B.A.T. Herbert Professor GellertThe Life of Professor Gellert; with a course of .....Unknown
1800-1849'A review for Brewster's philosophical journal of a German book on Magnetism, I must also write or say I cannot - the former alternative is better: and then (as our man o...Thomas Carlyle Professor HansteenInquiries Concerning the Magnetism of the EarthPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson Professor Seccombe[articles in the "Bookman"]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Prosper Merimee Print: Book
1850-1899Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."Henry James Prosper MerimeeunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'[Merimee's] book has arrived yesterday. I have only begun reading it.' [letter to Venceslas-Victor Jacquemont]Mary Shelley Prosper MerimeeLa JacqueriePrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Prosper MerimeeunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I do know the Mérimée story you speak of. It is "Tamango". A rather good piece of work. [...] I read it years ago.'Joseph Conrad Prosper MériméeTamangoPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I have spoken of his affection for Dickens. Trollope he liked. Thackeray I think not over much, though he had a due regard for such creations as Major Pendennis. Mer...Joseph Conrad Prosper MériméeunspecifiedPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Dec. 29th. [...] read Hypermnestre a tragedy by M. le Mierre and Rhadamiste et Zenobie by I. Crebillon [sic].'Claire Clairmont Prosper Jolyot de CrebillonRhadamisthe et ZenobiePrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 3 August 1827: 'Huntley Gordon lent me a volume of his father's Manuscript Memoirs. They are not without interest, for Pryce Gordon though a bit of a roue, is ...Walter Scott Pryce GordonMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series of huge figures in the sky," including "that of an o...Henry More Ptolemy GeographiaPrint: Book


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