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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 24 August 1797: 'Have you seen a poem addressed to me by Miss Anna Seward? if not I can much amuse you by it. she applies to my poetry what Mi...Robert Southey Anna Seward'Written by Anna Seward, After Reading Southey’s J...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 November 1797: 'I know that our tastes differ much in poetry. & yet I think you must like these lines by Charles Lamb....Robert Southey Charles Lamb'Written Soon after the Preceding Poem’Print: Book
1700-1799'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I shall never forget Baretti's Critique upon it as I th...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry Wooton'Ye meaner beauties of the night'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I shall never forget Baretti's Critique upon it as I th...Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti Henry Wooton'Ye meaner beauties of the night'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In reference to 'N.A.'s' notes on young Rob Roy, I should like to ask the writer if he will kindly inform us what authority he has for understanding so much in his notes...Robert Louis Stevenson N. A.'Young Rob Roy' in Stirling Observer Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Frank Hardie, 11 October 1933: 'Many thanks for your letter and for the copy of your article which I had already read with great interest. I think we ...Leonard Woolf Frank Hardie'Youth, Socialism and Peace'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories in mid-winter at Bowen's Court when she wrote to Vir...Elizabeth Bowen Guy de Maupassant'Yvette' [and other short stories]Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- happy for your sake, because, as you will, I dare sa...John Wilson Croker Nassau senior'[article] on the Scotch novels'Print: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'You need not send mee Lady Newcastles book at all for I have seen it, and am sattisfyed that there are many soberer People in Bedlam, i'le swear her friends are much to ...Dorothy Osborne Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle(?) Poems and FanciesPrint: Book
1900-1945'It's wonderful how well sustained is the excellence of "Charlotte".I've just read the last instalment [...]'Joseph Conrad David Meldrum(An episode of ) The Conquest of Charlotte Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to J. H. Jesse, 5 December 1843: 'I am much obliged by your kind attention in sending me your Selwyn volumes: but to be candid with you, I can by no...John Wilson Croker J. H. Jesse(apparently) Selwyn and His ContemporariesPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Finished Judges, in Pictorial Bible, which is a great treat to me. Finished "Pride and Prejudice." It is wonderfully clever,...Harriet Martineau (Book of) JudgesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Sept. 22nd. [...] Return [from walking] at [...] 4. Read Greek [...] Sit up till one reading the Monk.' Claire Clairmont (classical) Greek textsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley reads Thalaba aloud in the evening. Write a little Gre[ek] & learn four t...Claire Clairmont (classical) Greek textsPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include 'Lenin-cum-Stalin on literature. Being a 2nd instalment of Les Grands Textes du Marxism...Edward Morgan Forster V. I. Lenin and Josef Stalin(excerpted) writings on literaturePrint: Book
1850-1899'You may remember that I used to desire to outlive you: I have changed my cue: I should be left to speak in the words of surely the most affecting historical document in ...Robert Louis Stevenson Emery Tylney(in) Foxe's Book of MartyrsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for your letter. The enclosure was most interesting. It reveals an original personality and to me attractive. It is at the same time a most flattering recogn...Joseph Conrad Frank Challice Constable(letter)Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces passages from posthumously-published writings of the 23-year-old Madame Roland, transcribed by Mary Berry when aged 22, 'as parallel to her ...Mary Berry Madame Roland(passages from) Reverie du Bois de VincennesUnknown
1900-1945‘Your parcels have arrived … You have my deepest assurances that the pleasure caused by your kindness has been considerable…. The reason I dared to ask for all these ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Walt Whitman(Poems)Print: Book
1900-1945‘Your parcels have arrived … You have my deepest assurances that the pleasure caused by your kindness has been considerable…. The reason I dared to ask for all these ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Percy Bysshe Shelley(Poems)Print: Book


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