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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'I have just been reading an old Magazine where I find that Benjamin Flower was fined ?100 and imprisoned in Newgate four months ... for a libel, as it was termed, upon t...William Wordsworth unknown[magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to S.T. Coleridge, [5 May 1809]: 'Turning over an old Magazine three or four days ago I hit upon a paragraph stating that B. Flower had been fined ?100...William Wordsworth unknown[magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I saw in one of our Manchester papers yesterday what I am delighted to learn, that you are the Rector of Lincoln's.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][Manchester newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'I mentioned that I had in my possession the Life of Sir Robert Sibbald, the celebrated Scottish antiquary, and founder of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, i...James Boswell Robert Sibbald[manuscript Life]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'By the middle of March 1831, I had completed the first volume, amounting to above f...Charles Manby Smith Dr D[manuscript of his book]Manuscript: manuscript of book
1600-1699'to Sir W. Coventry, and there read over my yesterday's work; being a collection of the perticulars of the excess in charge created by a war - with good content.'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[manuscript on naval expenses]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'This day Mrs Turner did lend me, as a rarity, a manuscript of one of Mr Wells, writ long ago, teaching the method of building a ship; which pleases me mightily. I was at...Samuel Pepys John Wells[manuscript on ship building]Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allow his beautiful tale published in Mrs. Williams's "M...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[manuscript plan for a fable]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells: 'In another cell we saw a respectable looking man in middle life, seated at his table with his head leaning on his hand, and copious ...anon [unknown][manuscripts]Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopkins manuscripts; & sat looking at them with that gig...Virginia Woolf Gerard Manley Hopkins[manuscripts]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a packet about the size of a lady's travelling writing...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[manuscripts]Manuscript: books
1850-1899'[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a packet about the size of a lady's travelling writing...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Blake[manuscripts]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I was out like a lark at nine this morning to breakfast with Isabel Paterson - who did not expect me till one, Sunday breakfast here being alleesamee lunch. So she was n...Ford Madox Ford Isabel Paterson[manuscripts]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Please send me April magazines. Have seen the March ones. The mud is awful — 3 mules drowned in shell craters last night, it is terrible.'Henry William Williamson [n/a] [n/a][March magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I get a library book, "Dandelion Days". Written on the back cover is an extraordinary message deated 15.1.42 at the General Hopsital, thus: "23.25 - what the hell has th...Thomas Kitching [unknown][marginalia in Dandelion Days]Manuscript: Graffito
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, ...George Gordon Lord Byron Count Vittorio Alfieri[marginalia]Manuscript: Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
1900-1945'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron...Chester Armstrong [Marxist Economics]Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by re...Alfred Rawlings [material by or about Wordsworth]Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by re...Helen Rawlings [material by or about Wordsworth]Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Stansfield, Mr Clough, Violet Wallis, taking part by re...Elizabeth Ann Smith [material by or about Wordsworth]Unknown


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