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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth 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
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919: 'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and admiring them all. "Kenneth" made me laugh so nicely. T...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest Reid'The Trial of Witches'Print: Book
1800-1849'I send you some verses which I read in the Examiner; I think them very witty, although very abominable'. [What follows is Charle's Lamb's poem, 'The Triumph of the Whale...Matthew Lewis Charles Lamb'The Triumph of the Whale'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have been reading with interest today the last article in the current number of "Blackwood", entitled "The Two Blights in Ireland". But may I be allowed to point out ...P.L. Park 'The Two Blights in Ireland', Blackwood's Magazine...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 27 February 1900: 'Last Thursday I went to Mr Dickinson's to hear Trevelyan of Trinity read a paper on "The Uses of History", & ve...George Macaulay Trevelyan George Macaulay Trevelyan'The Uses of History'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have been longing to be back among you all, and feeling very lonely this afternoon. Since then I have been reading Tennyson's splendid "Ode to the Duke of Wellin...Robert Dunlop Smith Henry Newbolt'The Vigil'
1800-1849[transcribed in what appears to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'With modest sidelong look and downcase glance / Behold the well matched couple now advance / His hand held he...Lady Caroline Lamb Richard Brinsley Sheridan'The Walse' also entitled 'The Waltz'Unknown
1900-1945'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ...Bernard Kops Thomas Stearns Eliot'The Waste Land'Print: Book
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, in undated letter:] 'I have lately very often put the question to myself, whether I would chuse to live my time over ag...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh 'The wise son of Sirach'Print: Unknown
1850-1899The Rev. Charles Cockin to Alfred Tennyson, November 1868: 'In reading an old translation of Du Bartas I was struck with the following verse from the "Woodman's Beare,...Charles Cockin Joshua Sylvester'The Woodman's Beare'Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Dined at 1/2 past 5; played on the bass for 1 hour, and then read some of Lessing's theolog...George Grote Gotthold Ephraim Lessing'theological writings'Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (1806): 'Mama is too good to me. She tells me she shall like to read with me. We have begun Paley's Theolo...Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and Lady Harriet Cavendish Paley'Theology'Print: Book
1800-1849'I perused your theorems with some attention. They are well worthy of a place in the Courier - though not for the purpose you mention. Mr Johnston, if I mistake not, is ...Thomas Carlyle Robert Mitchell'theorems'Manuscript: Unknown
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of “They may talk of scenes that are bright and fair by Thos Haynes Bailey Esq”Catherine Austen Thomas Haynes Bailey'They may talk of scenes that are bright and fair'...Unknown
1800-1849'They tell us of an Indian tree/...'Margaret Maingay [?] Thomas Moore'They Tell us of An Indian Tree' OR 'To My Mother'Print: UnknownUnknown
1700-1799'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked in the Margin: that he should Attain to Perfection by...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander Pope'Third pastoral'Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy's life and gave some idea of the succession of works...Henry Marriage Wallis Thomas Hardy'Three Travellers, The'Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Hood'Tim Turpin'Print: Book
1850-1899'Your last poem in the Cornhill was first class.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund Gosse'Timasetheos' in The Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a copy of your poem "To a Lady fond of Life?" She she...Miss Highmore Elizabeth Carter'To a Lady fond of Life'Manuscript: Unknown


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