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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
 
1700-1799Patrick Delany to Samuel Richardson, 20 December 1753: 'I have begun a second time with Sir Charles Grandison, and assure you, in the main, I am better pleased with it...Patrick Delany Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonUnknown
1700-1799[From ed. notes:] '[Samuel Richardson's] correspondence with Lady [Dorothy] Bradshaigh began in the following manner: -- A lady, calling herself Belfour, wrote to the...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh Samuel RichardsonClarissa (volumes 1-4)Print: Book
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson (letter undated):] 'Just as I was sending this to the post, your fifth volume came to my hand [...] I...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh Samuel RichardsonClarissa (volume 5)Print: Book
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson, 11 January [1748/9], on completing reading of final three volumes of Clarissa:] 'I have, Sir, with m...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh Samuel RichardsonClarissa (final 3 volumes)Print: Book
1800-1849'the sailor / rogers'Mary Groom Samuel RogersThe SailorUnknown
1800-1849'An Italian Song / Rogers' [transcription of poem]Mary Groom Samuel RogersAn Italian SongUnknown
1800-1849'A Wish' 'Rogers' [transcribes text] 'Mine be a cot beside a hill...'Mary Dugdale Samuel RogersThe WishUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 5 May 1814: 'I have to thank you for a Present of your Volume of Poems, received some time since, through the hands of Southey. I ha...William Wordsworth Samuel RogersPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: '[Samuel] Rogers read me his Poem when I was in Town about 2 months ago; but I have heard nothing of it since.'Samuel Rogers Samuel RogersHuman Life, A PoemUnknown
1800-1849'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped yesterday evening into a Bookseller's shop with a s...William Wordsworth Samuel RogersJacquelinePrint: Book
1850-1899'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousnes...Thomas Burke Samuel Rogers Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'Sir Walter Raleigh Samuel RogersPleasures of MemoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and sweet face of nature. It was at this time, I think, that...Thomas Carter Samuel RogersHuman Life, a PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sometimes I try if I can talk in that Jargon I us'd to hear but I cannot endure it & the remembrance of what you said puts all they say out--so that men hate me--today a...Lady Caroline Lamb Samuel RogersunknownUnknown
1800-1849"Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-dust would have been better- RB" [He has also starred ...Samuel Rogers'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Roger...Print: Book
1800-1849'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-dust would have been better- RB' [He has also starred ...Charlotte Sussannah Fry Samuel Rogers'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Roger...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Epistle to a Friend". I do not so much admire it as I did the "Pleasures of Memory".'Joseph Hunter Samuel RogersAn Epistle to a Friend, with Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening read principally papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasures of memory"; thought less of the papers in the "Adventurer" than I had done formerly, i....William Windham Samuel RogersPleasures of MemoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'A Tear' 'Oh! That the chemist's magic art/ Could crystalise [sic] this sacred treasure/... ['Chloe' of Rogers's text changed to 'Anna' in manuscript]'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxSamuel RogersOn A TearUnknown
1800-1849'"When the last breath, ere nature sink to rest Thy meek submission to they God express'd/..."'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxSamuel RogersThe Pleasures of Memory Part IIUnknown


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