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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
 
1800-1849'I dined with Captain Castle yesterday; who lent me the Backwoodsman by Dunlop; which I have read through. After doing so [...] I am more than ever pleased with this coun...William Richard Grahame William Dunlop'The Backwoodsman' or Statistical Sketches of UppePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Monday October [...] 24th. [...] Read Barring out with Johnny in the Evening'.Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'The Barring Out'Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39
R. H. Robson in the chair.
[...]

2. R. H. Robson gave an introductory sketch of Hilaire B...		Reginald H. Robson Hilaire Belloc'The Battle of Hastings'Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Nov. [...] 24th. [...] a letter came from Mr. Baxter with english books for John. Read a little of the Black Lane in Rosamond to him.'Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'The Black Lane'Print: Book
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'G. is very much interested in the "black penitent" and is now reading it in the window in mamma's little room.'Lady Georgina Cavendish 'the black penitent'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yo...Elizabeth Barrett Robert Browning'The Boy and the Angel'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'March 8th. [1890] He made me read Southwell's "Burning Babe" to him out of Palgrave's Sacred Song.'Hallam Tennyson Robert Southwell'The Burning Babe'Print: Book
1800-1849William Charles Macready, Jr. to Robert Browning, May 1842: 'My dear Mr Browning 'I was very much obliged to you, for your kind letter. I liked exceedingly the Cardina...William Charles Macready Robert Browning'The Cardinal and the Dog'Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Charlotte [Mew] used to read [...] [lines from her 1912 poem "The Changeling", in which a child speaker ponders reasons for its own existence] aloud [...] to children of...Charlotte Mew Charlotte Mew'The Changeling'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843: '[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirable -- but I cannot say, poetical or passionate [......Elizabeth Barrett Maria Edgeworth'The Cherry Orchard'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 30 April 1845: 'You will see the announcement of Mrs. Norton's new poem on the "Child of the Islands", namely our little Prince...Elizabeth Barrett Caroline Norton'The Child of the Islands' (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905: 'At 2.45 I and Herr Steinweg [German tutor employed by the Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin] [...] go a walk [...] W...Edward Morgan Forster 'The Child's first Lesebuch'Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Lord Stanley, 4 [?14] June 1847: 'I have had communicated to me the pages of a pamphlet, which is in the press, and about to be published in defe...John Wilson Croker anon 'The Commercial Policy of Pitt and Peel'Unknown
1850-1899James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed b...W. B. Carpenter W. B. Carpenter'The commonsense philosophy of Causation'Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under ...Mary Pollard Michael Drayton'The Daffodil'Print: Book
1800-1849'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'The Day-Dream'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh and schoolmatesRupert Brooke'The Dead'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:] 'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read the death of Adam. It is extremely fine, but so p...Catherine Talbot Carlo Maggi'the Death of Adam'Print: Book
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1850-1899		From Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte:

'"I recollect [...] [Bronte's] saying how acutely she dreaded a charge of plagiarism when, after she had...		Charlotte Brontë Anne Marsh'The Deformed'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The Disappointment of God. 'The Times, in an article with this title, announced that though God is certainly disappointed by the state of the world we must not go so ...Edward Morgan Forster 'The Disappointment of God'Print: Newspaper


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