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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
 
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 25 March 1819: 'Between 4 and 5 I read some of Kant's Prolegomena [...] went up to Palsgrave Pl...George Grote and Charles CameronJeremy Bentham'upon Legislation'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 10 November 1841: 'I have been wandering in Lower Austria [sic] -- very much pleased -- by the help of your music-tongued & smiling...Elizabeth Barrett John Kenyon'Upper Austria'Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929-30) include descriptions and reflections on vagrants from Chekhov's story 'Uprooted.'Edward Morgan Forster Anton Chekhov'Uprooted'Print: Book
1700-1799'[regarding a poetry contest with his brother William, himself and another, Hogg says of William's poem] it was far superior to either of the other two in the sublimity o...James Hogg William Hogg'Urania's Tour'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'Vagabond'Print: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:

'Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation [in year following the death...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth Eastlake'Vanity Fair and Jane Eyre'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[Mrs Thrale gives her 'Verses on the Fall of the Great Ash Tree in Offley Park'] This trifling performance brought Tears into my Uncle's Eyes, and Money into my Pocket f...Thomas Salusbury Hester Lynch Salusbury'Verses on the Fall of the Great Ash Tree in Offle...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (March 1836): 'We were quite delighted with your beautiful verses. What power of description to the very life...Leveson Gower familyLady Carlisle'verses'Unknown
1800-1849'Wednesday March 17th. Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- '.Claire Clairmont unknown'Vie de Ninon de L'Enclos'Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads to me Spencer's Virgil's Gnat'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund Spenser'Virgil's Gnat'Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753: 'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one is fond of with persons of taste and candour, to who...Catherine Talbot 'Vision'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 22 May 1852:

'I read "Visiting at Cranford" with that sort of pleasure which seems always too brief in its duration ...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth Gaskell'Visiting at Cranford'Print: Serial / periodical
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'Vitae Lampada'
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755: 'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he has waited this last fortnight for some volumes of Sto...Catherine Talbot 'volumes of Stoic philosophy'Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755: 'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he has waited this last fortnight for some volumes of Sto...Bishop of Norwich 'volumes of Stoic philosophy'Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday March 10th [...] Read Voyage de Constantinople by a frenchman [sic].'Claire Clairmont unknown'Voyage de Constantinople'Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of readings and songs were given as under. What Dic...family who lived at 'Whinfell' 'Waggon, the'Unknown
1900-1945'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other unavoidable circumstances) of 3 members to introduc...Miss Wallis Francis Bret Harte'Waif of the Plains, The'Print: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842: 'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult of delight which your most noble Dramatic Lyrics h...Joseph Arnould Robert Browning'Waring'Print: Book
1800-1849'I read Guizot's Washington in the Summer; nothing can be better, more succinct more judicious, more true more just; but I think I have done with reviewing'.Sydney Smith M. Guizot'Washington: par M. Guizot'Print: Book


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