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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
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H. 29 - (30/12/1855) - "and she is as proud as - Flora Mac Ivor."John Ruskin Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Burde...John Ruskin George Gordon Lord ByronThe Destruction of SennacheribPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H. 39 - 12/10/1856 - "-I don't know when I read a poem, since as a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Bur...John Ruskin Dante Gabriel RossettiThe Burden of NinevehPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Letter H.96 (Beginning of June 1861) ?The Defence of Guenevere by Morris is published by Bell & Daldy.? John Ruskin William MorrisThe Defence of GueneverePrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H53, January 1857 "But I think if you read Anderson carefully, you will feel how pointed, neat and concise he is in comparison. How unexpected also are most of hi...John Ruskin Hans Christian AndersenFairy legends and TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860) ?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly offensive and ?band plays?) ? Finest moral poetry eve...John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPoems before CongressPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter II to Miss Harriet Reid of Glasgow, April 28 1773 '?he shewed so much ingenuity in discovering faults in every thing, that I burst out a laughing, and said we were...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Laurence SterneSentimental JourneyPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, May 7 1846 ?Miss Heaton ? told me yesterday that the poetess proper of the city of Leeds was ?Mrs A.? ? as she lives in L...Ellen Heaton Rebecca HeyThe Moral of Flowers (1833) and The Spirit of the ...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter September 1857 ? 'I hope you know Miss Edgeworths ?Helen?'.John Ruskin Maria EdgeworthHelenPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter to Barbara Leigh Smith from Bessie Raynor Parkes, 19 March 1856: 'What shall I say about Goethe? When I have done it I shall write to Marian - I don't see the self...Bessie Raynor Parkes George Henry LewesLife of GoethePrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar June 30 1773 'I will not tire you with the detail of all the little circumstances that gradually acquired me the place in her favour which I ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John MiltonParadise lostPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, June 20 1773 'In the mean time I hope the best, and endeavour to pursue Oliver Cromwell through all his crooked paths. I have gone but a sho...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver GoldsmithThe vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 28 1773 'Since I wrote to you last, I have been most intent on biography, and quite engrossed by heroes and legislatures' [and later in ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] unknown[Biographies including ones of Peter the Great and...Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 30 1773 'I will no longer bewilder myself among figures, for I see you ready to compare me to Hudibras, "Who could not ope/ His mouth bu...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter to her daughter-in-law Ann, dated 4th June 1818: "Little Madge (Margaret Elizabeth Haskoll) told me that she had a little brother now and she prayed for him. I ...Lydia Haskoll anonHistory of Little Goody Two-shoesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar April 11 1803 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read them. It is her monument I am describing ?. 'Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Laurence Sterne[Letters from Yorick to Eliza?]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar April 25 1802 '?Now I have to satisfy you as to my favourite poem of Burns. Doubtless the Daisy is the most finished, and excels in simple elegance...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Robert Burns[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849Letter to Miss Dunbar May 17 1803 'You must have felt some of the pains and penalties of authorship, to have any ideas of the cordial satisfaction I derived from reading ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Elizabeth Rose of KilravockunknownUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'Did I tell you I read "Campbell?s Pleasures of Hope" at Wells and was charmed and elevated beyond measure ?'Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Thomas CampbellPleasures of hopePrint: Book
1800-1849Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of the poem you had the goodness to send me; but you in ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William Hayley[Life and letters of William Cowper]Print: Book


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