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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'Friday July [...] 29th. [...] Read Travels in Germany.'Claire Clairmont unknown'Travels in Germany'Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 16 December 1807: 'Lady Elizabeth is reading Semple's travels through Spain and says they are excessively...Lady Elizabeth Foster Semple'travels through Spain'Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:] 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know it -- Pray amongst your French studies have you m...Elizabeth Carter 'Treatise on Gaiety'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Tuesday Evening,' October 1829: 'With regard to your treatise on Geology, I will say nothing about the science of it, for fear ...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart Boyd'treatise on Geology'Unknown
1850-1899'We proceeded to Chatsworth on the 13th of August [1870] -- that is to say, to the "Edensor Inn," hard by [...] Lady Eastlake joining us on the same day, from London, we ...George Grote 'treatises of medieval authors'Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'May 21st. He [Tennyson] read me his "Tristram" ("Last Tournament"), the plan of which he had been for some weeks discussing with ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Tristram'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...Elizabeth Ann Smith Robert Louis Stevenson'Tropic Rain'Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"On happiness” [unattributed], beginning 'True Happiness is not the growth of Earth'.Catherine Austen I. S.'True Happiness is not the growth of Earth'Unknown
1900-1945'The Subject of Fairy Stories was introduced shortly by C. E. Stansfield who followed with a reading from Rewards & Fairies. "Cold Iron" F. E. Pollard sang "Do you won...Charles Evans 'True Thomas'Print: Book
1800-1849'The article which I inclose "The History of Tom M. Fribble" is not mine. It is written by a Mr William Clerk a teacher here who copies a good many things for me therefor...James Hogg William Clerk'True, but Stupid History of Tom MacFribble, The'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902: '[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. The last is a stiff job -- my God I've never read su...Leonard Woolf George Gordon, Lord Byron'Turkish Tales'Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire: 'Let me just say that two little books you gave me were the greatest pleasure and comfort to me whi...Harriet Countess Granville 'two little books'Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (1816): 'Lady Harrowby and Susan [Lady Harrowby's daughter] are arrived, and I repose my cares upon ...Lady Harrowby and daughter (?and 'Messrs. Standish and Montagu') 'two new reviews'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:] 'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collected from all the frippery shelves throughout Westminst...Elizabeth Carter 'two pastorals'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:] 'My dear Mr Hanway has published two volumes at last, which you saw, and only told me you had seen them, but for w...Catherine Talbot Jonas Hanway'two volumes'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:] 'My dear Mr Hanway has published two volumes at last, which you saw, and only told me you had seen them, but for w...Elizabeth Carter Jonas Hanway'two volumes'Print: Book
1900-1945[the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte d'Arthur'. John learned a lot of poetry by heart an...John Betjeman Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Ulysses'Print: 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 schoolmatesAlfred Tennyson'Ulysses'Print: Book
1900-1945'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel Paterson & (better still) by W.R. Benet under the tit...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen W.R. Benet'Uncle Ford'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight your old friend for such feminine frible-frable! Wils...James Hogg John Wilson'Unimore. A Dream of the Highlands'Print: Newspaper


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