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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 Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was c...Elizabeth Barrett Eugene SueunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was c...Elizabeth Barrett Frederic SoulieunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was c...Elizabeth Barrett Louis de Maynard de QueilheunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842: 'I have just done reading a romance of Frederick Soulie's which begins with a violation & a murder, & en...Elizabeth Barrett Frederic SoulieunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Benjamin Robert Haydon, in his Autobiography, mentions 'Liz', 'An attractive girl on the second floor of a house full of young men ... [who] attached herself to the par...Liz William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: 'Over the pages of the philosophic Tacitus the hours of study pass rapidly as even those which ...Robert Southey TacitusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'Thank you, my dear cousin, for Mr Longfellow's verses -- a [italics]whole book[end italics] of which I never saw b...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Wadsworth LongfellowunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 21 April 1843: 'Mrs S. C. Hall is an agreeable & graceful writer, & I am one of her many readers [...] From her husband ...Elizabeth Barrett Mrs Samuel Carter HallunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 June 1843: 'My dear Child is varying but no cough -- What a dear sweet girl! [...] We go to Harrow today to see Byron...Mary Mordwinoff Haydon George Gordon, Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843: 'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Greek Fathers [...] & have of course informed myself ...Elizabeth Barrett HookerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843: 'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Greek Fathers [...] & have of course informed myself ...Elizabeth Barrett Jeremy TaylorunknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'[Roger] Ascham (1515-68) [...] visited the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey (1537-54) in 1550 and describes in [italics]The Scholemaster[end italics] (1570) how he found her r...Lady Jane Grey Plato unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9-10 August 1844: 'Do you remember, by the glance you had, my lovely little cousin Lizzie Barrett [...] Well -- that child...Lizzie Barrett Mary Russell MitfordunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . I send you a book which I picked up as a bargain in the catalogue of a second-hand bookseller, You will see that under the headings of the different countries it...Arnold Bennett unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Metastatio is improving I finish Themistocles and the second book of Annals today also - what tempted you to send me that deplorable (these blots are no work of mine) vo...Jane Baillie Welsh Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonvantura Trapassi (AKA Metastatio)UnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I felt rather lonely this Morning at breakfast so I went and unbox'd a Shakspeare - "There's my Comfort". John Keats William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'The wonderful Cambridge Prophet who has been most cruelly Martyrd To be seen at [followed by a gap. It continues] He is not the Wandering jew, nor an old Levite, no...Mary Bacon unknownunknownPrint: Advertisement
1850-1899'?Miss Griffin? is capital stuff; not the least dull, a little ragged and loquacious, of course. Go on. Give me more types in the same style; and when I have the lot , I?...Robert Louis Stevenson Katharine de MattosunknownManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'Today we saw the cathedral at Chester; and, far more delightful, saw and heard a certain inimitable verger who took us round. He was full of a certain recondite, far awa...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'[?] I am seen about the garden with large and aged quartos [?]'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownunknownPrint: Book


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