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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
 
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1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850: ' ... the perusal of his [Robert Southey's] "Life and Correspondence" arranged by yourself has much deepened...Charlotte Bronte Robert SoutheyLife and CorrespondenceUnknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me much pleasure; the autobiography with which it commence...Charlotte Bronte Robert SoutheyLifePrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th...George Howell Robert Southey Print: Book
1800-1849" ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, has recently come to light ... there he ... adopted a ...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyJoan of ArcUnknown
1800-1849?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.?Thomas Babington Macaulay Robert SoutheyThalabaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Robert Southey 
1800-1849'[Returns after afternoon reading session] to renew the subject from a more enlarged account of this wonder of the 18th Century [Chatterton] lately published by Southey ....William Upcott Robert SoutheyThe Works of Thomas Chatterton, Containing his Lif...Print: Book
1800-1849'Southey's long epic poem, called "Roderick the Last of the Goths", is the new work. Every one is busy reading it, or sleeping over it'.Robert SoutheyRoderick: The Last of the GothsPrint: Book
1800-1849'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the "Memoirs of Mr William Hutton", and Dr S...Thomas Carter Robert Southey[works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Farewell--not as you say so to your favourites or they to you--not as any Woman ever spoke that Word for they never mean it to be what I will make it--but as nuns & thos...Lady Caroline Lamb Robert SoutheyMadocPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Excursion & Madoc.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyMadoc: a poemPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'M Read Madoc all morning.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyMadoc: a poemPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'He [Percy Bysshe Shelley] reads the curse of Kehama to us in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'She [Mary] reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock who dines.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'In the evening Shelley reads Thaliba aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThalaba the DestroyerPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'.Harriet Martineau Robert SoutheySelections from the Letters of Robert SoutheyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending t...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Robert SoutheyMadocPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Anabella Milbanke, 28 Nov 1814]. 'I think Southey's "Roderick" as near perfection as poetry can be - which considering how I dislike that school I w...George Gordon, Lord Byron Robert SoutheyRoderickPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary receives her first lesson in greek - She reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock'.Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyCurse of Kehama, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'After reading Southey's Life and Correspondence, the maintenance of that friendship [between the conservative Southey and the more radical William Taylor] appears to me ...Harriet Martineau Robert SoutheyLife and CorrespondencePrint: Book


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