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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
 
1800-1849Sunday, 16 July 1826: 'Very unsatisfactory to-day. Sleepy, stupid, indolent -- finished arranging the books and after that was totally useless -- unless it can be ca...Walter Scott 'The murder of [William] Weare by Thurtell and Co....Print: Book
1800-1849'Ripon Ball [...] The papers full of the trial of and acquital of Hone who defended himself very ingeniously on his being indicted ex officio by the Atorney General for a...Benjamin Newton n/a'The newspapers'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon women.'Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'The Nine Days' Wonder'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady Strachey read to us -- to me for the most part, as L[eonard]. was late. She...Jane Maria, Lady Strachey Captain Ronald A. Hopwood'The Old Way'Print: Book
1850-1899'"The Omadhaun" was very funny by the Lord; I saw Constable who said both Payn and Kegan Paul had very highly lauded you.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'The Omadhaun at the Queen's'. Print: Serial / periodical, Account of an Irish melodrama by H.P. Grattan.
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include Ruskin's remark, from a Slade Lecture (with five commas omitted from original): 'Every mutiny ever...Edward Morgan Forster John Ruskin'The Pleasures of Deed' (Lecture II in series 'The...Print: Book
1800-1849"Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-dust would have been better- RB" [He has also starred ...Samuel Rogers'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Roger...Print: Book
1800-1849'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-dust would have been better- RB' [He has also starred ...Charlotte Sussannah Fry Samuel Rogers'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Roger...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my chil...Mary Russell Mitford Elizabeth Barrett'The Poet's Vow'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac...Grace Macaulay Maria Edgeworth'The Purple Jar' in Every Child's StoriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...James Hogg James Hogg'The Queen's Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...Mr Grieve James Hogg'The Queens Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...Mr Gray James Hogg'The Queens Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...Mr Gray James Hogg'The Queens Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[George Goldie] earnestly requested to see my MS. I gave it to him with reluctance, being predetermined to have nothing to do with him. He had not, however, well looked ...George Goldie James Hogg'The Queens Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Spencer Perceval to John Wilson Croker, 11 November 1810: 'I thank you for the sight of H[uskisson]'s pamphlet. I have run through it, I cannot say [italics]read[end...Spencer Perceval William Huskisson'The Question Concerning the Depreciation of our C...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849Richard Hengist Horne to Edgar Allan Poe, 17 May 1845: 'Miss Barrett has read the "Raven" and says she thinks there is a fine lyrical melody in it. When I tell you tha...Elizabeth Barrett Edgar Allan Poe'The Raven'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 6 September 1845: 'I shd. have written long since to you, if but to thank you for Edgar Poe's ballad .. of which [...] [italics]t...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Edgar Allan Poe'The Raven'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 2 September 1820: 'The Lords are all tired and suffocated [with the royal adultery trial] [...] Lord...Lord Portsmouth 'the Red Book'Print: Book
1800-1849Sir Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker, 29 September 1833: 'Strange as it may seem, I have not read nor have I seen the Ministerial pamphlet. I saw some extracts from i...Sir Robert Peel Lord Brougham and others'The Reformed Ministry and the Reformed Parliament...Print: Newspaper


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