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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, 16 April 1838: 'I had to thank [John Kenyon] for [...] lending me Mr Milnes's Poems just printed for private circulation. T...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Monckton MilnesMemorials of a Residence on the Continent, and His...Print: Book
1800-1849'Two of your love poems are supremely beautiful - O let not words, the callous shell of thought & I will not say my life was sad and I like infinitely They owned the...Richard Monckton Milnes Richard Monckton MilnesPoetry for the PeoplePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 December 1843: 'I admired [Richard Monckton Milne's] first volume very much; but his later poetry seems to want fire a...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Monckton Milnes'Lay of the Humble'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844: 'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me so much offence by the prose note attached to it beg...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Monckton Milnes'Projected Railways in Westmoreland. An Answer to ...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Thanks for telling me about the articles. I always like to read anything of your writing, even when it is not of such supreme interest as 'Lucknow' because your style (m...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Richard Monckton Milnes'Lucknow'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Read Cambridge's "Scribleriad". The mock heroic is well sustained throughout; but the Poem is deficient in broad humour...'Thomas Green Richard Owen CambridgeThe scribleriad: an heroic poem in six booksPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754: 'Your cousin [Richard Owen] Cambridge has writ many lively papers in the World this winter from the mere motive of ...Catherine Talbot Richard Owen Cambridgepapers (i.e. essays)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard Payne KnightAn Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of TastePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the 'exercises' of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old students of all ages. They begin by some distinguished pers...Leslie Stephen Richard Watson Gilder[poem]Unknown
1900-1945'He [Edward Garnett] gave me his father's book for you. He handed it to me because I wanted to look at some new stories in the vol:[...] I send it on now. E.G[arnett]. th...Joseph Conrad Richard` GarnettThe Twilight of the Gods and Other tales Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945[alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Old Man's Birthday".Hilary Spalding Richmal CromptonOld Man's Birthday, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... Even before my teens my reading entered upon the r...Frances Stevenson Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Hardy, to whom [Rider] Haggard sent his Norse adventure "Eric Brighteyes" (1891), was roused by "a wild illustration" to start reading a chapter nearer the end th...Thomas Hardy Rider HaggardEric BrighteyesPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923: 'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to write.' ...Virginia Woolf Rimbaud  Print: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Rinaldo di CapuaLa zingaraPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I am sorry to say Sir E. [Eldon Gorst, British Agent and Consul General] has been rather bad this last week: a touch of the sun it is thought. I play the piano to him of...Ronald Storrs Robert BrowningunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Last night sleep departed, I read almost all night Nelsons life of Bp Bull James ClreJames Clegg Robert NelsonLife of Dr. George BullPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert VaughanThe Life and Opinions of John de Wycliffe, D.D.Print: Book
1700-1799Looked at Ainsworth's dictionary for the derivation of all the Christian names; Joseph is derived from the Hebrew of I will multiply ...Joseph Hunter Robert AinsworthRobert Ainsworth's DictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 20-21 July 1794: 'When Coleridges work is published you will see a Latin Poem of Allens which did not gain the praise. the s...Robert Southey Robert AllenLudi Scenici (unpublished)Manuscript: Sheet


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