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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
 
1900-1945Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I tried to read Judith Paris, then Ivanhoe. A note on ...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I happened by chance when in this mood [melancholy], to open "The Lady of the Lake", and I thought, as I read it, so long as there were such sublime poems in the world t...Charlotte Bury Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I took a great pleasure in the "Antiquary", till I learnt who was the author. It is universally believed that it was written by a man of the name of Greenfield, once a p...Mrs [-] Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been perusing your minstrelsy very diligently for a while past, and it being the first book I ever perused which was written by a person I had seen and conversed ...James Hogg Walter ScottMinstrelsy of the Scottish Border, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had a present of a very elegant copy of the "Lay" lately from a gentleman in Edin. to whom I was ashamed to confess that I had it not. This is g[TEAR] you a hint that ...James Hogg Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your others and as long as that is admired (which it ever wil...James Hogg Walter Scott'Glenfinlas; Or, Lord Ronald's Coronach'Print: Book
1800-1849'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your others and as long as that is admired (which it ever wil...James Hogg Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your others and as long as that is admired (which it ever wil...James Hogg Walter Scott'To Henry Erskine, Esq'Print: Book
1800-1849'[italics] The Bridal [end italics] of Triermain is published. It is quite a romance of a lady that lay enchanted 500 years &c a servile imitation of Scott and possesses ...James Hogg Walter ScottBridal of Triermain, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these l...James Hogg Walter Scott[pre-publication comments and marginal notes on Ho...Manuscript: presumably in MS
1800-1849'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever acknowledge it; but with regard to the author there is...James Hogg Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever acknowledge it; but with regard to the author there is...James Hogg Walter ScottBridal of Triermain, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever acknowledge it; but with regard to the author there is...George Gordon, Lord Byron Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a very absurd one but has many most beautiful and affect...James Hogg Walter ScottLord of the Isles, TheManuscript: Unknown
'I have read "Ronald" with great care and much pleasure I think it is the most [italics] spirited [end italics] poem Scott ever wrote - He has availed himself of his part...James Hogg Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
'I confess I was pleased with ['The Lord of the Isles'] save the plot and augured good of it but I have heard very different breathings of late and some of these from hea...James Hogg Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first rate article as indeed I think all your principal arti...James Hogg Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Blackwood and another in the weekly journal which I ca...James Hogg Walter Scott [letters in ] Edinburgh Weekly JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I had the Sunday School girls here last Sunday, and Susanna came to help me, and I thought we went off gloriously, only - (everything has its only) - in repeating our s...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1800-1849'We like you amuse ourselves with reading: we are familiar with the Scenery of the North & Court of King James: we could guess that Snowdoun, Knight was King but not that...Crabbe familyWalter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book


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