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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
 
1850-1899In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, "Catechismi intorno al Protestanteismo ed alla Chies...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Giovanni PerroneCatechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chie...Print: Book
1800-1849In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, "Friendship" (as in 1803 edition of poem).George Gordon, Lord Byron William CowperFriendshipUnknown
1800-1849In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on William Turner, Journal of a Tour in the Levant (and ...George Gordon Lord Byron William TurnerJournal of a Tour in the LevantPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1700-1799In letter to Mary Berry and family of July 10 1790, Horace Walpole transcribes two passages from the Times of 8 July, concerning political developments in Italy.Horace Walpole The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799In letter to Mary Berry of 17 August 1791, Horace Walpole transcribes anonymously-authored, sixteen-line verse, sent to him by General Conway, on Sir W. Hamilton's mistre...Horace Walpole anon 'Attitudes -- A Sketch'Unknown
1850-1899In letter to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) of 27 April 1890, Henry James thanks her for Hauntings, her book of ghost stories, which he has read and enjoyed: "I possess the em...Henry James Vernon LeeHauntingsPrint: Book
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1850-1899		In Letter XI, "Letters on Daily Life", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces a sonnet by 'Archbishop Trench' opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident / It is the v...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Trenchsonnet opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by ac...Unknown
1800-1849In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to her her feeling that 'government of the thoughts' wa...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Jane TaylorThe Contributions of Q.Q.Print: Book
1800-1849In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the odes of Anacreon, and then commenced the Iliad. I worked hard at Greek.Thomas Cooper HomerThe IliadPrint: Book
1900-1945In London too the usual life with Viva Jeyes in Grove End Road was mixed with mornings in the British Museum, reading 'Brunow and Dussaud' on Roman roads in Moab an...Freya Stark Rene Dussaud[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899In looking over the bound vol. of 'Notes and Queries' for the first half of 1851, I find a paper by you entitled 'Edmund Burke and the Annual Register' [Gaskell then prov...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Crossley'Edmund Burkke and the Annual Register' Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce.Thomas Babington Macaulay HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849In my shop doing little business there, and in the intervals reading Gifford's History of the War.Adam Mackie C.H. GiffordHistory of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899In one place in which she worked as a servant, where "Mrs Layton's" reading approved of: "she became particularly keen on reading travel literature ..."Mrs Layton travel writingPrint: Unknown
1850-1899In postscript to his letter of 3 July 1897 to Ellen Temple Hunter, Henry James tells anecdote about 'yesterday afternoon', in which, after having been 'reading the deligh...Henry James Edward FitzgeraldLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which however I could not sleep ... ) & so Good Morning - ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1850-1899In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "A Death in the Desert": 'Sixty years have passed sin...Herbert Hensley Henson Robert BrowningA Death in the DesertUnknown
1850-1899In Scaffolding in the Sky (1938), C[harles]. H. Reilly remembered Saturday evenings when 'we all assembled round the fire to hear him [his father] read Dickens, generally...Charles H. Reilly Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1800-1849In the afternoon at 3.40, down the old bank to the library...No Miss Browne. I could have said, changing only the gender, (as Gibbons wrote toDeyverdum, vol. 604/703...Anne Lister Edward GibbonMiscellaneous WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2. Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. the girls introduced me. She thanked me for the book...Anne Lister Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book


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