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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[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Thomas HolcroftAdventures of Hugh Trevor, The
1800-1849'read the memoirs aloud and begin the life of Holcroft'Mary Godwin Thomas HolcroftMemoirs of the late Thomas HolcroftPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads the life of Holcroft aloud all day'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas HolcroftMemoirs of the late Thomas HolcroftPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'Mary Godwin Thomas HolcroftMemoirs of the late Thomas HolcroftPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'Mary Godwin Thomas HolcroftTravels from Hamburg through Westphalia, Holland a...Print: Book
1800-1849'Draw and read Bryan Perdue'Mary Godwin Thomas HolcroftMemoirs of Bryan Perdue: a novelPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'.Mary Godwin Thomas HolcroftMemoirs of Bryan Perdue: a novelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Anna St Ives'Mary Shelley Thomas HolcroftAnna St Ives: a novelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives'Mary Shelley Thomas HolcroftAnna St Ives: a novelPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Lewis’s Monk I have not seen — [material scored out] Such publications may be made the vehicles of much truth & ...Robert Southey Thomas HolcroftAnna St IvesPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Lewis’s Monk I have not seen — [material scored out] Such publications may be made the vehicles of much truth & ...Robert Southey Thomas HolcroftThe Adventures of Hugh TrevorPrint: Book
1800-1849Began Holcroft's Memoirs - his description of the life of a New-market boy very curious and interesting - I wish every literary man would write his own memoirsThomas Moore Thomas HolcroftMemoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft, written by hi...Print: Book
1800-1849
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
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 22 December 1843: 'I read the "Song of the Shirt" & felt all the power of it. It is not every man -- is it? -- who can prick so int...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Hood'The Song of the Shirt'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Do you know that little poem of Hood's called [']the Lady's Dream'; because it is so true what he says about evil being done by [italics] want of thought [end italics].'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Hood'Lady's Dream, The'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Hood'Faithless Nelly Gray'Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Hood'Faithless Sally Brown'Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Hood'Tim Turpin'Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Hood'Ben Battle'Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas HoodWhims and OdditiesPrint: Book


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