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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
 
1800-1849Walter Scott to John Murray, regarding Byron's Cain: 'I do not know that his Muse has ever taken so lofty a flight amid her former soarings. He has certainly matched M...Walter Scott George Gordon Lord ByronCain, a MysteryPrint: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 26 March 1826: 'I enclose a letter for your funny namesake and kinsman, whose work entertains me very much.'Walter Scott T. Crofton CrokerFairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Irela...Print: Book
1700-1799Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 30 January 1829: 'I [...] rejoice to learn from yourself that you are seriously set about adding [as editor] to the charms of the m...Walter Scott Justinian 'Institutes and Pandects'Print: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott to William Blackwood, following a period of illness: 'I am greatly better, but not able to write. The author's copy of the third volume of the "Curiositie...Walter Scott Isaac D'IsraeliCuriosities of LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849Was engaged this forenoon sorting some lint yarn, and all the rest of my spare time reading [Guy] ManneringAdam Mackie Walter ScottGuy Mannering, or the AstrologerPrint: Book
1800-1849Was some little time up at my Father's this afternoon. Afterwards reading Fleetwood's Life of Christ, an engaging discourse although not handled in my opinion to the same...Adam Mackie John FleetwoodThe Life of Jesus Christ, together with the livesPrint: Book
1850-1899We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".'Margaret Oliphant AthenaeumPrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1850-1899We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".'Margaret Oliphant unknownReview of Adam BedePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799We got the last volume of the Italian, I think it does not equal the former productionJoseph Hunter Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book
1850-1899We have all read, by the way, The Poet at the breakfast table & sent him our sincere compliments on his performance."Leslie Stephen Sir Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Poet at the Breakfast TablePrint: Book
1850-1899We have been much interested all along in The Private Secretary.Emily Laszowska George T ChesneyThe Private SecretaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849We visited the church of San Pietro on the brow of the hill on which Perugia is situated; it contains many interesting pictures,.... I remarked a lovely little picture in...Susan Horner Johann David PassavantRaffael von Urbino und sein Vater Giovanni SantiPrint: Book
1800-1849we walked into the church which is a good deal painted over, and soon discovered the pictures of Brea. Murray tells us he is not an old master, yet his style appeared to...Susan Horner unknown unknownMurray's guidePrint: Book
1900-1945We went to St. Tropez to see my Alsatian friends and pushed on to lunch at Paradou, and found A. Besse very cheerful with 7 ladies (including ourselves) around him,...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][intelligence reports from Abyssinia]Unknown
1900-1945We woke up to-day to see the coast of Yemen, the Indian Ocean very blue, and were presently sailing into the bay of Aden. As I went into the saloon for passports, M...Stewart Henry Perowne Freya StarkBaghdad SketchesPrint: Book
1800-1849We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Me...Elizabeth Barrett HomerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Me...Elizabeth Barrett AeschylusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Me...Elizabeth Barrett AeschylusPrometheusPrint: Book
1800-1849We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Me...Elizabeth Barrett EuripidesMedeaPrint: Book
We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Me...Elizabeth Barrett William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book


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