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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
 
1850-1899This growing interest in Indian India was further whetted by Ruddy's reading of a new novel "Lalun the Bergun, or the Battle of Panipat: A legend of Hindoostan", publishe...Rudyard Kipling Mirza Moorad ‘Gaekwaree’ Alee BegLalun the Beragun or the Battle of Panipat: A lege...Print: Book
1800-1849This is emphatic enough.- I need not speak of Dr Chalmers' boisterous treatise upon the causes & cure of pauperism in the last Edinr review. His reasoning (so they call ...Thomas Carlyle Dr ChalmersTitle unknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849This morning's post brought me (from York, directed by Anne Belcombe, Petergate) the Manchester Observer [etc] 2 sheets of 4 columns each,one of the most inflamatory radi...Anne Lister Manchester Observer or literary, commercial and po...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799This trial concerned with the manner in which William Hudson read the newspaper (or several) to other customers at the New London Coffee-house and the seditious comments ...William Hudson  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Thomas Burke on literary figures' responses to his requests, as a teenager, for advice on starting a career as a writer: '... they spoke of the stress and anxiety of the ...Thomas Burke George GissingNew Grub StreetPrint: Book
1850-1899Thomas Burke on reading The Bookman as teenager, in Son of London (1947, 1948): "'I lived through each month for it; after each issue I was looking impatiently for the ne...Thomas Burke The BookmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Thomas Campbell to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 August 1822, in response to her having asked his opinion of her narrative poem Leila: 'the poem is open to many objections -- ...Thomas Campbell Elizabeth BarrettLeilaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Thomas Campbell to John Murray, 2 June 1809: 'I received the review, for which I thank you, and beg leave through you to express my best acknowledgements to the unkn...Thomas Campbell Walter Scottreview of Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming etcPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Thomas Carlyle to Alfred Tennyson, 7 December 1842: 'I have just been reading your Poems; I have read certain of them over again [goes on to praise Poems further, citi...Thomas Carlyle Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; and now this day I have been looking into your Pippa...Thomas Carlyle Robert BrowningPippa PassesPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; and now this day I have been looking into your Pippa p...Thomas Carlyle Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Thomas Carter on childhood reading: '"I gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeats and fruit, and was moreover a dealer in little books [...] I had ...Thomas Carter storybooksPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Carter on reading enabled at his Protestant Dissenting day school, where one master gave him the run of his own library: '"the books were chiefly old and odd volum...Thomas Carter The ArminianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Thomas Carter on reading enabled at his Protestant Dissenting day school, where one master gave him the run of his own library: '"the books were chiefly old and odd volum...Thomas Carter The Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		Thomas Carter on reading enabled at the dame-school run by his mother: '"I [...] gained some profit as well as pleasure by there coming under my mother's care, being ther...Thomas Carter booksPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Thomas Dibdin, in The Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (1809), on "illustration" of printed texts, with annotations and insertions, by readers: "'I almost ridiculed the idea ...Thomas Frognall Dibdin Illustrated ChattertonPrint: Book
1700-1799Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755: 'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As far as I have seen, and I read at Ember the last volum...Thomas Edwards Alexander PopeEssay on ManPrint: Book
1700-1799Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751: 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which, upon my first reading it, appeared to be published...Thomas Edwards Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1850-1899Thomas Hardy to Sir George Douglas, 3 March 1898: "'[Stephen Phillips's] Poems was strongly recommended to me, & I bought him, but ... am bound to say that I was woefully...Thomas Hardy Stephen PhillipsPoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Thomas Hardy to Violet Hunt, [?Mar 1908]: "'Why should you have wasted a nice copy of your new book upon me -- a recluse who does not read a novel a twelvemonth nowadays....Thomas Hardy Violet HuntWhite Rose of Withered LeafPrint: Book


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