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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
 
1800-1849Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Robert Browning, 17 October 1847: 'It is now two or three months ago that I met, at the British Museum, with a Poem published in 1833, enti...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Robert BrowningPauline, a Fragment of a ConfessionPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847: 'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often than any thing else in verse'.Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847: 'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often than any thing else in verse'.Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningDramatic LyricsPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a major disappointment: she tho...Edith Sitwell Robert Browning[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years').John Buchan Robert BrowningunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15-17 July 1845: 'Yesterday you must have wondered at me for being in such a maze about the poems. It was assuredly the wine song...Elizabeth Barrett Robert Browning'Claret and Tokay'Print: Serial / periodical
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 Barrett Robert Browning'Garden Fancies: I, The Flower's Name; II, Sibrand...Print: Serial / periodical
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 Barrett Robert Browning'The Tomb at St. Praxed's (Rome, 15----.)'Print: Serial / periodical
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
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 Barrett Robert Browning'The Laboratory (Ancien Regime)'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 4 October 1845: 'Your spring-song is full of beauty as you know very well [...] so characteristic of you [...] that I was sorely ...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert Browning'Oh to be in England'Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 10 November 1845: 'Before I have half re[a]d through your Dramatic Romances, I must acknowledge the delight ...Walter Savage Landor Robert BrowningDramatic Romances and LyricsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 12 November 1845: 'I read Luria's first act twice through before I slept last night, & feel just as a bullet might feel [...] sho...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert BrowningLuria (Act I)Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 25 April 1850: 'I have read re-read marked learned & [italics]]really[end italics] inwardly digested your last Poem [...] Well then ...Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningChristmas-Eve and Easter-DayPrint: Book
1900-1945'L[eonard]W[oolf] had undertaken to write a play for the "X" Society, which had recently read Robert Browning's Paracelsus.'The 'X' SocietyRobert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pai...Leonard Woolf Robert Browning Print: Book
1900-1945'I remembered once, years before, when I was a child of thirteen, listening in half-fascinated terror to a mistress at St. Monica's reading "Childe Roland to the Dark Tow...Vera Brittain Robert BrowningChilde Roland to the Dark Tower CamePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have done rather an amusing paragraph or two for "Vanity Fair" on the "Inn Album". I have slated R.B. pretty handsomely.Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BrowningThe Inn AlbumPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished, and was reading at night Browning's "Ring and the ...Alfred Tennyson Robert BrowningThe Ring and the BookPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 4th. We both read Browning's Balaustion. Heracles the free, the joyous, the strong, the self-sacrificer, a grand creation.'...Alfred and Emily TennysonRobert BrowningBalaustionPrint: Book


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