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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
 
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for theft: Robert Ireland: "On the 11th of July, in the afternoon, these stockings hung by the door, inside the shop -I was sitting by the ...Robert Ireland  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for theft: Thomas Stevenson: "...next day he said they [stolen property] were advertised. I looked in The Times, and said it was not there....Thomas Stevenson The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Words of a gentleman, well known to Fry, desirous of seeing and judging for himself effects of the experiment in Newgate Gaol, visited Newgate, and wrote: 'I was conducte... [n/a]Bible (probably)Print: Book
1800-1849Wordsworth in the Fenwick Note to Miscellaneous Sonnets: 'In the cottage of Town-End, one afternoon, in 1801, my Sister read to me the Sonnets of Milton. I had long been...Dorothy Wordsworth John Milton[sonnets]Unknown
1800-1849Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in...William Wordsworth Sneyd DaviesAgainst Indolence. An EpistlePrint: Book
1800-1849Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in...William Wordsworth William EnfieldSpeaker, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Wordsworth to Hazlitt, 5 March 1804: "I was sorry to see from the Papers that your Friend poor Fawcett was dead; not so much that he was dead but to think of the manner i...William Wordsworth [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham and I amused ourselves in imitating jointly Juvenal'...William Wordsworth JuvenalSatire XUnknown
1800-1849Wordsworth to Walter Savage Landor, 20 April 1822: 'In your Simoneida, which I saw some years ago at Mr Southey's, I was pleased to find rather an out-of-the-way image, i...William Wordsworth Walter Savage LandorSimoneidaPrint: Book
1700-1799Would not go to Church. Read Dr Clark's 'paraphras'.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1800-1849Writing to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814, Dorothy Wordsworth gives transcription of version of William Wordsworth, "Yarrow Visited". Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthYarrow VistedManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Writing to his sister, Aikin comments on Knox: 'His great fault, I think, is setting out with too confined a view of the ends of education, which must be as various as si...John Aikin Knox[on education]Unknown
1700-1799Writt from 6 to 9. Sup'd alone. Read 'The Mulberry Garden', a pretty play. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile Charles SedleyThe Mulberry Garden or The Works...In Two VolumesPrint: Book
1700-1799Writt till supper. Read 'Sesostris'. Bed near 12.Gertrude Savile John SturmySesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy...Print: Book
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1700-1799		Written in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand a translation of John Foxe's 'The Epitaph upon that Blessed Martyr Walter Mill at St Andrews in Scotland.' Elizabeth Lyttelton John FoxeBook of MartyrsPrint: Book
1800-1849Wrote another chapter of my Life read a little in Gray's Letters [...] they are the best letters I have seen & I consider Burns very inferior [.]John Clare Thomas GrayLettersUnknown
1800-1849Wu notes extracts from vol 1 of Volney, "Travels Through Syria and Egypt", in Dove Cottage MS 28. Wordsworth FamilyConstantin Francois de Chasseboeuf comte de VolneyTravels through Syria and Egypt, in the years 1783...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
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1850-1899		Wu notes marginalia of Dorothy Wordsworth in Wordsworth Library copy of William Withering, An Arrangement of British Plants according to the latest improvements of the Li...Dorothy Wordsworth William WitheringArrangement of British Plants according to the lat...Print: Book
1800-1849Wu notes that Charles Lamb copied stanzas 20-53 of Charles Cotton, Winter, in letter to Wordsworth of 5 March 1803.Charles Lamb Charles CottonWinterUnknown
1800-1849Wu notes translated extract from Sir Bors' lament for Arthur (in the Morte D'Arthur of Thomas Malory) in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book.Wordsworth FamilyThomas MaloryMorte D'ArthurManuscript: Unknown


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