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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
 
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790: 'I have most seriously been house-hunting for you. I saw two bills on doors in Montpellier-row, but neither are furnished.'Horace Walpole anonbills advertising houses for sale/to letPrint: Advertisement, Poster
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 31 October 1790: 'Burke's pamphlet is to appear tomorrow, and Calonne has published a thumping one of 440 pages [Lettre sur l'Etat de la Fra...Horace Walpole CalonneLettre sur l'Etat de la France, present et a venirPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 8 November 1790: 'In this country the stock of the National Assembly is fallen down to bankruptcy [...] the fatal blow has been at last give...Horace Walpole Edmund BurkeReflections on the Revolution in FrancePrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899Horsemonger Lane Gaol - Visiting the cells: 'On looking into another cell, we saw a prisoner sentenced to penal servitude, engaged reading by his table, having just fini...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899How the young Alice Meynell gained her family's support for her writing: ' ... [in c. 1867 Alice Thompson] had shown ... [her poems] to an American friend of the family, ...Thomas Thompson Alice Thompsonunknown poemsManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Hudson recalled how, preoccupied with the prospect of his mother's death and it effect on him: 'Then one day, with my mind in this troubled state, in reading George...William Henry Hudson George CombeA System of PhrenologyPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett (in hand of an amanuensis, Boyd being blind), letter postmarked 13 April 1843: 'It runs in my head, that several years ago, per...Hugh Stuart Boyd article regarding Ossian controversyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843: 'I have been reading a good deal of Dr Blair's Dissertation upon Ossian. The Miss Smiths can bear witness, t...Hugh Stuart Boyd Hugh BlairA Critical Dissertation on the Poems of OssianPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843: 'I have read only a small part of Ossian [...] I have been reading a good deal of Dr Blair's Dissertation upo...Hugh Stuart Boyd James Macpherson (as 'Ossian')Ossian poemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 27 January 1843: 'Since I last wrote to you, I have read some account of Ossian, and h...Hugh Stuart Boyd Encyclopedia entry on 'Ossian' controversyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 3 March 1843: 'Since I last wrote to you expressly on the Poems of Ossian; I have rea...Harriet Holmes James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian)The Death of CuchullinPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of an amanuensis, letter postmarked 19 January 1843: 'Since I last wrote to you, the Poems of Darthula has been read t...Hugh Stuart Boyd James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian)Poems of DarthulaPrint: Book
1800-1849I adhered steadily to the practice I had adopted and read for two or three hours every night after the business of the day was closed, which never happened till half past...Francis Place  Print: Book
1800-1849I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pasca...James Lackington Beilby PorteusA Summary of the Principle Evidences for the Truth...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen Robert Browning Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
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1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen John Milton Print: Book
1900-1945I am getting hold of a copyist as there are various exciting manuscripts here and I can't deal with all myself. I have nearly finished one and it is full of useful ...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unidentified Yemen manuscript]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom knows what a strike is about. . . No paper gives impart...Arnold Bennett Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper


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