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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
 
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general acc...Charles Evans Thomas Love PeacockThree Men of GothamPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general acc...R.B. Graham Thomas Love Peacock[poems from the novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general acc...Miss Cole Thomas Love PeacockLove and AgePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general acc...Henry Marriage Wallis Thomas Love Peacock Print: Book
1900-1945'I myself have been reading this week a book by a man named Love Peacock, of whom I had not heard, but who seems to be famous. He was a contemporary of Lamb, Hazlitt, B...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas Love PeacockHeadlong HallPrint: Book
1850-1899'"In my childhood, I never met another who could not read", [H.M. Tomlinson] recalled. "Some of them could be so excited by the printed page that they passed on the fun t...H.M. Tomlinson Thomas Mayne Reid"The Headless Horseman"Print: Book
1800-1849'In a poor little struggling Unitarian periodical, the Monthly Repository [...] a youth, named Thomas Noon Talfourd, was about this time [1816] making [...] first attempt...Martineau familyThomas Noon Talfourd"On the System of Malthus"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Noon Talfourd, 13 June 1838: 'Miss Barrett presents her compliments to Mr Serjeant Talfourd, and desires to express to him her thankfulne...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Noon TalfourdThe Athenian CaptivePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 17 June 1840: '["Glencoe"] never reached me until last week [...] Thank you my dearest Georgie! [...] It was, as ...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Noon TalfourdGlencoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Thank you very much for the gift of "Ion"; the tragedy was known to us by extracts, and our desire to see it was great. We like it very much - it is a noble descendant o...Mary Howitt Thomas Noon TalfourdIonPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Rachel Talfourd, c.1842: 'Out of certain projects of calling personally and saying my thankful say -- comes this poor paper and ink acknowledgemen...Robert Browning Thomas Noon TalfourdRecollections of a First Visit to the Alps, in Aug...Print: Book
1800-1849'Will you thank Mr Talfourd for the kind present of his pleasant book' [letter to Edward Moxon]Mary Shelley Thomas Noon TalfourdRecollections of a first visit to the Alps, in Aug...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 6 January 1845: 'Have you read Mr Serjeant Talfourd's "Rambles & thoughts"? With some wordiness, & faults of taste otherwise, it is a v...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Noon TalfourdVacation Rambles and ThoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysic...Thomas Carlyle Thomas or William Belsham[either Elements of the Philosophy of Mind or Essa...Print: Book
1700-1799'C[oleridge] had read the Essay [on the Principle of Population] shortly after its first appearance in 1798.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Robert MalthusEssay on the Principle of Population, AnPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Mary Berry to a friend, 19 November 1798: 'Don't let me forget to advise you to to read the "Natural Son," or "Lovers' Vows;" it is the entire and literal translation of ...Mary Berry Thomas Robert MalthusEssay on the Principle of PopulationPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and bet...Thomas Robert MalthusEssay on the Principle of PopulationPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Robert MalthusAn Essay on the Principle of PopulationPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Robert MalthusThe Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restric...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have finished "A Winter in Town", and think that if it was written in two volumes instead of three it would be a very good Novel - Some of the characters such as the D...Eugenia Wynne Thomas Skinner SurrA Winter in London, or Sketches of FashionPrint: Book


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