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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
 
1700-1799'Read a beautiful story in Pratt [borrowed on 11 Oct] concerning a decayed merchant & his daughter who had retired into Wales & were unexpectedly relieved by the Great Jo...Joseph Hunter Samuel Jackson PrattGleanings Through Wales, Holland and WestphaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Returned Pratt's "Gleanings in England" to the SS Library having only read a few of the letters which did not please me;'Joseph Hunter Samuel Jackson PrattGleanings in EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Pratt Author of a poem called "the Lower World" & of divers other works in prose & rhyme sent to me his Book with obliging direction where to find a Line of Panegyric...George Crabbe Samuel Jackson PrattLower World, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Pratt & I began to write nearly about the same time & his Sympathy & my Village were [cancelled] nearly [ end cancelled] contemporaries, but this soon ceased & I was ...George Crabbe Samuel Jackson PrattSympathy; a PoemPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mo...Frances Burney Samuel James ArnoldThe CreolePrint: Book
1700-1799'Man's Life being divided into five Acts like a Play - in the Sorberiana - what an Affinity it has to Shakespear's seven Ages of Man!'Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Joseph SorbiereSorberianaPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 June 1841: 'I have been reading Blanchard's life of poor L.E.L. [...] The book is to me deeply affecting. She was a fine...Mary Russell Mitford Samuel Laman BlanchardLife and Literary Remains of L.E.L.Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844: 'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting memoir of Mrs Hemans by Mr Chorley -- full of int...Elizabeth Barrett Samuel Laman BlanchardLife and Literary Remains of L.E.L.Print: Book
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 13 February 1898: 'Have you read Crockett's new book, the Adventures of Sir Toady Lion? It is splendid: a child's story, & remind...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel Rutherford CrockettThe Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady LionPrint: Book
1900-1945'If one read at all one was soon noticed. I lay in bed one night with a book I had bought at Smith's. They had a shop near our hut in Catterick Camp. It was S. R. Crocket...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Samuel Rutherford CrockettThe Smugglers: The Odyssey of Zipporah KattiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
1850-1899?Another book, by the way, worth a glance is a collection of old S. T. Coleridge?s letters. I have had to write the beggar?s life & have a rather morbid familiarity with ...Leslie Stephen Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLetters of Samuel Taylor ColeridgePrint: Book
1850-1899'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost... to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Ch...Thomas Frost Samuel Taylor Coleridge[poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799"In June 1797, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote to Mary Hutchinson, telling her that, as soon as [S. T.] C[oleridge] arrived at Racedown Lodge, 'he repeated to us two acts an...Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel Taylor ColeridgeOsorioManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I ... found Miss [Sara] Hutchinson reading Coleridge's Christabel to Johnny [Wordsworth] - She was tired, so I read the greater part of it: he was excessively interested...Sara Hutchinson and Dorothy WordsworthSamuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabelUnknown
1800-1849'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe; and Coleridge's Christabel to him, with both of whi...William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabelUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 28 February [1810], on departure of Sara Hutchinson after four years with Wordsworths: 'Coleridge most of all will miss her, as she h...Sara Hutchinson Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Friend, A Literary, Moral and Political Weekly...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'In Coleridge's life I perceive an attack upon the then Committee of D[rury] L[ane] Theatre - for acting Bertram ... this is not ve...George Gordon Lord Byron Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBiographia LiterariaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t...Elizabeth Blackburn Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book


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