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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'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde de Staal [sic]. Between friends - but don't mention i...Sarah Harriet Burney Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-HolsteinZulma, et trois nouvellesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to know how anxious I am about as I look on it to be a ...James Hogg [ essay on H.H. Milman's painting 'The Fall of Jer...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a r...Charlotte Bury Francis Jeffrey[ review of 'Essays on the superstitions of the Hi...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to know how anxious I am about as I look on it to be a ...James Hogg John Wilson[ review of 'Hogg's Tales, &c.']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a r...Charlotte Bury Francis Jeffrey[ review of new edition of Ford's plays]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I had also to go this morning and read some old black-letter poems in the Advocates' Library: and the stomach, like a true British subject, is rebelling not a little aga...Thomas Carlyle unknown["black-letter poems"]Print: Book
1800-1849 William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 1808: '... I find, among the people I am speaking o...William Wordsworth anon [working people]["half-penny Ballads"]Print: Book
1800-1849Southey describes arrival of 'literary remains' of Henry Kirke White at Greta Hall in his preface to The Remains of Kirke White, of Nottingham (2 vols, 1807): 'Mr. Coler...Robert Southey Henry Kirke White["literary remains"]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Southey describes arrival of "literary remains" of Henry Kirke White at Greta Hall in his preface to The Remains of Kirke White, of Nottingham (2 vols, 1807): 'Mr. Coler...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Kirke White["literary remains"]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The girl has joined the library. She's a big reader. Reads about 2 books a week. She's begun to start bringing home "love" books now. The boy isn't a bit keen on reading... unknown["love" stories]Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 1808: ' ... I find, among the people I am speaking of, ...William Wordsworth ["penny and two-penny histories"]Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, Saturday 18 May 1811: 'I went with Joanna Baillie to Hampstead, to remain till Monday. Dined before four, and went out upon the Heath. Sat for abov...Mary Berry and Joanna BaillieMary Berry["scraps" of writings]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, & felt less jellyish. I read a lot, but only silly school stories, except one book, "Th...Hilary Spalding unknown["silly school stories"]Print: Book
1900-1945'During the whole of my stay I continually asked to be allowed to have English books, but apart from one small, rather sloppy novel I was only permitted a German-English ...Lorimer John Austin unknown unknown["small, rather sloppy novel"]Print: Book
1850-1899"The little ones were very good: all 3 sitting on my knee to look at the bear book & listening whilst Nessa explained with great elocution what you were to do if you met ...Leslie Stephen ["The Bear Book"]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of the French papers chooses to tell me, -- or the adv...George Gordon Lord Byron ["the Italian version of the French papers"]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow? I ask on account of a little poem upon the comet, which I have read i...William Wordsworth ['a little poem upon the comet']Print: Newspaper
1700-1799One little book that my father had given me the last time he was at home, was for a long time afterwards my inseparable companion... My dear Papa's beautiful storybook.Ellen Weeton ['A storybook']Print: Book
1700-1799'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, in which was contained the Adventures of [italics] E...Laetitia Pilkington Charles Wogan['Adventures of Eugenius' - veiled Autobiography]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Windsor, and writer of "The History of Gustavus Adolphus"...Samuel Johnson [unknown]['black letter', ie gothic text books - medieval t...Print: Book


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