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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
 
1800-1849'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a co...Thomas Carter William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of "Cobbett?s Weekly Register", and as I constantly saw the tract lying on the desk at...Samuel Bamford William Cobbett[writings]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were writ...Joseph Mayett William Cobbett[various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849'In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. "Cobbett's Register" and "Wooler's Black Dwarf" were the fir...Christopher Thomson William CobbettCobbett's political registerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's w...James Glass Bertram William CobbettAdvice to young menPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nearly the whole time from breakfast till Mr Legge's coming down, employed in reading Cobbett. More thoroughly wicked and mischievous than almost any that has appeared y...William Windham William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. A little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides.'William Windham William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Monday Jany. 19th. [...] Learn an Italian dialogue [...] Read three of Cobbett's Registers. In one of these he mentions Mr. W-- Friend as a very able, firm, & worthy ...Claire Clairmont William CobbettCobbett's Weekly Political RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Saturday March 13. Read Cobbett, which is a strange book to read with one's head full of the ruins of Rome.'Claire Clairmont William Cobbett[?] Rural RidesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday March 14th. Read Cobbett'.Claire Clairmont William Cobbett[?] Rural RidesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near M...Claire Clairmont William CobbettA Year's Residence in the United States of AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Graham, the maker of this hat, is a poor but industrious woman, about five-and-thirty years of age, resident with her husband and daughter, in a cottage belonging to...Mrs Graham William CobbettCottage Economy: A New EditionPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945‘ … thank you immensely for "Friends" [W. W. Gibson], an unforgettable book … My town-pride received a shock yesterday—and my pocket. Cridland and I went to Salisbury...Ivor Bertie Gurney William CobbettRural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Susse...Print: Book
1900-1945‘Distant from us by 300 yards … snipers were continually firing, and rockets … lit up the night outside … we had two days like that, and played Auction Bridge, talked...Ivor Bertie Gurney William CobbettRural Rides in the counties of Surrey, Kent, Susse...Print: Book
1700-1799"[in 29.10.1828 letter to Alexander Dyce] ... W[ordsworth] recalls that 'in 1788 the Ode was first printed from Dr Carlyle's copy, with Mr Mackenzie's supplemental lines ...William Wordsworth William CollinsAn Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlan...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge William CollinsPoetical WorksPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, ' ? this other princely seat of the Athol family forms, at this moment, opposite my window ?But now the fairy vallies fade/Dun night has ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William CollinsOde occasion'd by the death of Mr ThomsonPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Smith August 7 1784 'You and he too have this in common, that you both appear to most advantage on paper, where your diffidence does not stand in your way....Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William CollinsAddress to simplicityPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Qu...Robert Southey William Collins Ode to EveningPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Morning lark ascends on high And with its music greets the Sky... [6 lines]'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxWilliam CombeThe Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the PicturesqueUnknown


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