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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
 
1900-1945Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-1-28) though my former criticism stands [i.e. that i...Edward Morgan Forster Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-1-28) though my former criticism stands [i.e. that i...Edward Morgan Forster Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1700-1799Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress'] w...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonTaxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions ...Print: Pamphlet, proof leaves of a pamphlet with handwritten corrections
1700-1799Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress'] w...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonTaxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions ...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of the seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for ...Charles Manby Smith William CobbettA French Grammar, Or plain Instructions for the LePrint: Book
1900-1945Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...Patricia Beer Hesba StrettonLittle Meg's ChildrenPrint: Book
1900-1945Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...Patricia Beer Hesba StrettonJessica's First PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...Patricia Beer Mrs O.F. WaltonChristie's Old Organ; or, Home Sweet HomePrint: Book
1900-1945Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...Patricia Beer Amy Le Feuvre[various, unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 11 December 1827: 'It gave me great pleasure to hear that you think so favorably of my Essay now that you have read the whole of it...Elizabeth Barrett Uvedale PriceAn Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek ...Print: Book
1800-1849Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 17 November 1826, in response to her written comments on his Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages: 'I...Uvedale Price Elizabeth Barrettcomments on Uvedale Price, An Essay on the Modern ...Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 December 1826: 'I will ask you [...] whether you have ever read the Subaltern? It is said, by military men to be a very exact a...Uvedale Price George Robert GleigThe SubalternPrint: Book
1800-1849Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 December 1826: 'When Luxmoore was with us, a little before he called at Hopend [sic; for Hope End, Barrett's family home], I she...[probably] Charles Scott Luxmoore Uvedale Pricedissertation on modern pronunciation of classical ...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 19 January 1813, accompanying his ode on the burning of Moscow by French forces: 'I sent an early copy to Fitzpatrick, and Rogers happening t...Uvedale PriceDraft ode on French retreat from MoscowManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		Uvedale Price to Mary Berry,18 December 1813, discussing the importance of association and the physical senses in aesthetics: 'Fitzpatrick, in that exquisite poem I once ...Uvedale Price Fitzpatrick[metaphysical] poemUnknown
1800-1849Uvedale Price to Mary Berry,18 December 1813: 'Upon reading a few days ago in the papers an account of the Queen of Naples' magnificent reception at the Ottoman court, it...Uvedale Price newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Various marginal marks and MS dates of reading including: "Welcombe. Read to C[Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and Anna [his sister-in-law]. Feb 14 1910"; "Feb 21 1924". George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe Aspern Papers - Louisa Pallant - The modern wa...Print: Book
1900-1945Various MS notes and marks including date of reading: June 23 1923 and a note on p.311 "The birthplace": "This was based on the story of Mr. Skipsey, told to Carry [i.e. ...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe better sortPrint: Book
1800-1849Version of Wordsworth's translation of Michaelangelo sonnet transcribed in letter to Sir George Beaumont, 8 Sept 1806.William Wordsworth Michaelangelo Buonarotti[sonnet]Unknown
1800-1849Very busy today. Reading Aeschylus & learning the verb τύπτω.Elizabeth Barrett Aeschylus Print: Book


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