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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
 
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1850-1899		Describing the terminal illness of a friend in her "Autobiography", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces four stanzas from Thomas Hood, 'We watched her breathing through t...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Thomas Hood'We watched her breathing through the night --'Unknown
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...Florence Reynolds 'Wedding Presents'Print: Serial / periodical
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...Sylvanus A. Reynolds William Barnes'What Dick and I did'Print: Book
1850-1899James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed b...Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol'What is Death?'Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'I sent the Goth [i.e. Thoby Stephen] a cutting from a newspaper entitled "What is Sport?" being a diatribe against t...Thoby Stephen 'What is Sport?'Print: Newspaper
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Morning Post [...] I enclose from it this jolly letter ...Edward Morgan Forster James Arthur Balfour'What Our Fleet Has Done' Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Love's Wreath!' 'When Love was a Child and went rolling along/...'Carey/Maingay group[Thomas] [Moore?]'When Love was a Child' OR ['Loves Wreath']Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'The Tear' 'When the soft tear steals silently from the eye/...'Carey/Maingay groupSusanna Blamire'When The Soft Tear Steals Silently'Print: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cramb, and some Bernhardi, and I am sure we could not ...Edward Morgan Forster 'White Paper'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Mr Longman to John Murray, from 2 Hanover Terrace (1838): 'Can you oblige me by letting me have a third volume of ["]Wilberforce." The fact is, that at in [sic] read...Mr Alexander 'Wilberforce' vol. 3Print: Book
1800-1849'Amongst various verses, which she insisted on my accepting, she gave me the following lines, which she said she had written as supposing them to be spoken by the Duchess...Charlotte Bury Caroline Lamb'Winter Amusements'Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Copy the Witch of Atlas'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley'Witch of Atlas, The'Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 27 August 1850:

'The "Westminster Review" is not a periodical I see regularly, but some time since I got hold of a num...		Charlotte Brontë Is.Is (pseud.)'Woman's Mission'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'One of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose "Wordsworth's Grave" pleased him.'Alfred Tennyson William Watson'Wordsworth's Grave'Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842: 'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his work upon rhetoric -- but I mean to take him regu...Elizabeth Barrett Aristotle 'work upon rhetoric'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither...Elizabeth Barrett Dr Parr'works'Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915: 'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell me what merit you find in Henry James. I have disa...Virginia Woolf Henry James'works'Print: Book
1700-1799From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay': 'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest daughter Esther, Fanny [Burney] sat by and listened, ...Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther)Alexander Pope'works'Print: Book
1800-1849'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defectiv...James Hogg John Wilson'Wrestliana', in Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751: 'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; but his brother is, who is [...] very ingenious, and e...Samuel Richardson'writings'Print: Book


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