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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[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translati...Edith Sitwell Paul Verlaine[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translati...Edith Sitwell Arthur Rimbaud[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such f...Adam Smith John Milton[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'But nobody knew when they (the poems) were meant to come to an end; therefore the applause always came in the wrong place, either too soon or too late; either the poem c...Vita Sackville-West Edith Sitwell[poems]Unknown
1850-1899'I have a poet in stock here, a poor ass in the infirmary with one leg off and the other more than shaky − scrofula you know − but [italics]bougrement[end ita...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley[poems]Unknown
1850-1899'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my "very very own" (as the children say...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James R. Lowell[poems]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the...George Crabbe William Wordsworth[poems]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'On my First Communion day, November 21st 1914, I felt nothing at the actual receiving of the sacrament but in reading Francis Thompson's poems that day (my mother had bo...Antonia White Francis Thompson[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... If you borrow Emily's Wordsworth you will read not W...Antonia White William Wordsworth[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... If you borrow Emily's Wordsworth you will read not W...Emily Coleman William Wordsworth[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the letters "because he feels they will probably annoy h...Basil Nicholson Andrew Marvell[Poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the letters "because he feels they will probably annoy h...Basil Nicholson John Keats[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Whether it was owing to her own Desire, or the Envy of those who survived her, I know not; but of her various and beautiful Writings, except one poem of her's in Mrs [it...Laetitia Van Lewen Constantia Grierson[poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'A short while after he went down Stairs, he sent his Compliments up, and begg'd I would lend him a Book to amuse himself till Bed-time, so being willing to cultivate the...George Turnbull Laetitia Pilkington[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Every Poem, as I occasionally introduced them, he [Colley Cibber] made me give him a Copy of, and communicated them to the Earl of [italics] Chesterfield [end italics], ...Colley Cibber Laetitia Pilkington[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Every Poem, as I occasionally introduced them, he [Colley Cibber] made me give him a Copy of, and communicated them to the Earl of [italics] Chesterfield [end italics], ...Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Laetitia Pilkington[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I ingenuously told him [Mr Parkinson], I had no other Fortune than my Pen, and, at his request, shewed him some of my Writings' [Parkinson introduced her to a patron, Si...Mr Parkinson Laetitia Pilkington[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr E-e, seeing my Table covered with written Papers, told me, my Room resembled that of a Lawyer, and asked me Leave to read my Contemplations; to which I agreeing, he h...Mr E-e Laetitia Pilkington[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who deserved the Name of a [italics] Writer [end italics];...Laetitia Pilkington Abraham Cowley[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'I cannot, except my own Countrywoman, Mrs [italics] Grierson [end italics], find out another female Writer, whose Works are worth reading, she indeed had a happy and wel...Laetitia Pilkington Mrs Grierson[Poems]Print: Book


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