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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
 
1850-1899James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed b...Frederick Harrison Frederick Harrison'The relativity of Knowledge'Unknown
1900-1945'Her first WEA summer school at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over Wilson's Fourteen Points and in literary sessions ...Alice Foley Robert Browning'The Ring and the Book'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 28 May 1845: 'For the newspapers, or rather for your verses in them, I thank you much [...] the stanzas on Kennedy's Mill road s...Elizabeth Barrett Allan Park Paton'The Road Round by Kennedy's Mill'Print: Newspaper
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 25 October 1850:

'The box of books came last night [...] Jeffrey's Essays, Dr Arnold's Life, the Roman, Al...		Charlotte Brontë Sydney Dobell'The Roman'Print: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in The Giaour, the Fare thee well, and the Satire. Wi...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord Byron'the Satire'Print: Book
1900-1945'. . . By the way your Westminster Gazette article was magnificent, & filled me with holy joy.'Arnold Bennett H. G. Wells'The Schoolmaster and the EmpirePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the latter of which, I verily believe preserved me from t...Charles Dickens B.W. Proctor'The Sea'Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Matthew Arnold'The Sick King in Bokhara'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster, on presentation of inscribed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford, 7 December 1849: 'I have not yet taken my bonnet off after ...Samuel Bamford Alfred Tennyson'The Sleeping Beauty'Print: Book
1850-1899'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school bo...William Henry Davies unknown 'The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in AlgiersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh and schoolmatesRupert Brooke'The Soldier'Print: Book
1900-1945'What I've thought of most to-day, and it has been running in my mind all the time, for we had to learn it by heart, is Rupert Brooke's The Soldier. I cannot feel ...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Rupert Brooke'The Soldier'Print: Book
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot...Edwin Muir Wiliam Wordsworth'The Solitary Reaper'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 22 December 1843: 'I read the "Song of the Shirt" & felt all the power of it. It is not every man -- is it? -- who can prick so int...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Hood'The Song of the Shirt'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849till noon returnd & read snatches in several poets & the Song of Solomon thought the supposed illusions in that luscious poem to our saviour very overstrained....'.John Clare 'the Song Solomon'Print: Unknown
1850-1899W. M. Thackeray to Alfred Tennyson, [September-] October [1859]: 'I owe you a letter of happiness and thanks. Sir, about three weeks ago, when I was ill in bed, I read...William Makepeace Thackeray Alfred Tennyson'The splendour falls...'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's notes on conversations with the Duke of Wellington at Beaudesert: '"The Subaltern" [Mr Gleig's book, which I [Croker] had brought with me and...Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington Gleig'The Subaltern'
1850-1899'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.George Eliot [pseud] David Masson'The Three Devils'Print: Unknown, probably inbook publ. 1856
1900-1945Saturday 30 January 1915: '[Leonard] was kept late at Hampstead: didn't get home till 10.15 [...] He read Janet "The Three Jews".' Leonard Woolf Leonard Woolf'The Three Jews'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846: 'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, after reading just the first & last poems, I could not h...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Richard Hengist Horne'The Three Knights of Camelott: a Fairy Tale'Print: Book


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