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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
 
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Walter ScottVision of Don Roderick , ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Vision of Judgement'.Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronVision of Judgment, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[that civilians could believe soldiers were happy in the trenches] is evident from plenty of civilian verse, including, for example, a poem in John Oxenham's "The Vision...Wilfred Owen John Oxenham [pseud.]Vision Splendid, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 June 1838: 'Mr Townsend's poems have just reached me. I have had no time to read them, except at a rail road speed, & th...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Edwin Austin TownsendVisions of the Western RailwaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 July 1838: 'I have written to Mr Townsend. The more I read of his poems, the more deeply I feel their beauty. I [italics]...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Edwin Austin TownsendVisions of the Western RailwaysPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott, 14 May 1815: 'Amid the hurry consequent upon a recent arrival, with a view to a short Residence in London - I have found leisure to peru...William Wordsworth John ScottVisit to Paris in 1814Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & ...Sarah Harriet Burney John ScottVisit to Paris in 1814, APrint: Book
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1850-1899		Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics]: 'Among many casual instanc... Visitors' book, Lollards' Tower, LambethPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "Half the human race, certainly every one that one has ever heard of, appears sooner or later to have staid at Fryston (I saw...Henry James Visitors' booksManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Another sharp frost and thick fog this morning. Reading Curzon's Monasteries in the Lavant which Meiklejohn sent me at Christmas. More amusing than Eothen, but Doughty's...Siegfried Sassoon Robert CurzonVisits to Monasteries in the LavantPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read - Tegrino'Mary Shelley Niccolo TegrimiVita Castrucci CastracaniPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on...Mary Shelley Niccolo TegrimiVita Castruccio CastracaniPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Vita di Alfieri - & Livy - S. goes to Padua - Reads Cymbeline to me in the evening'Mary Shelley [unknown]Vita di AlfieriPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday August 13th. Read the Life of Castruccio by Nicalao Tegrimi [sic].' Claire Clairmont Niccolo TegrimiVita di Castruccio Castracani de gl'Antelmi nelli ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy ...Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriVita di Vittorio Alfieri ... scritta da essoPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C....Henry Marriage Wallis Henry NewboltVitai LampadaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson George MeredithVittoriaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing bu...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithVittoriaPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845: 'You ask me questions, "if I like novels," [...] There is a story of D'Israeli's, an old one, wi...Robert Browning Benjamin DisraeliVivian GreyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 1 May 1845: 'Once I sate up all night to read Vivian Grey'.Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin DisraeliVivian GreyPrint: Book


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