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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
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt...Constance Maynard William CowperpoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"The popular religious poet Frances Ridley Havergal claimed 'I do not think I was eight when I hit upon Cowper's lines, ending 'My father made them all!' That was what I...Frances Ridley Havergal William Cowper Print: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson notes political and critical remarks added by Anna Seward to copy of William Cowper, The Task.Anna Seward William CowperThe TaskPrint: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William Cowper Print: Book
1850-1899?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence, being the first book I bought for myself. It empti...Thomas Burt William Cowper[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided her only relaxation. She must have at least browsed ...Mary Wollstonecraft William Cowper Print: Book
1800-1849'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfa...Thomas Carter William Cowper[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'I could not do without a Syringa, for the sake of Cowper's Line.'Jane Austen William CowperThe TaskPrint: Book
1800-1849'Change will befall, and friend may part But distance only cannot change the heart'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxWilliam CowperAn Epistle to Joseph Hill Esq.Unknown
1800-1849'Ode to Peace' 'Come; Peace of Mind, delightful quest/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxWilliam CowperOde to PeaceUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'I am now alone in the Library, Mistress of all I survey - at least I may say so & repeat the whole poem if I like it, without offence to anybody.'Jane Austen William CowperVerses supposed to have been written by Alexander ...Print: Book
1800-1849Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of the poem you had the goodness to send me; but you in ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William CowperThe taskPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: '1/2 past 4. I have been reading Cowpers Homer & much satisfaction has the perusal afforded me. a quotation...Robert Southey William CowperThe Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into En...Print: Book
1900-1945' What else? Yes, I have read Cowper: "The stable yields a stercoraceous heap...." It bears an unpleasant resemblance to The Land, doesn't it? But it has its good mom...Vita Sackville-West William CowperThe Task, Part III (The Garden)Print: Book
1850-1899Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopped 2 days now The Years [novel in progress]:& feel t...Virginia Stephen William CowperunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 November 1797: 'You will be surprized perhaps at hearing that Cowpers poem does not at all please me. you must have he...Robert Southey William Cowperpoem [unidentified]Print: Unknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'The Diverting History of John Gilpin, Shewing how he went farther than he intended and came sa...William CowperJohn GilpinUnknown
1900-1945'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in...Celia Burrow William Cowper[letters]Print: Unknown
1800-1849[Mary Taylor to Elizabeth Gaskell, on the Bronte brother and sisters' religious reading and its relation to their depressive tendencies:] 'Cowper's poem The Castaway w...Bronte children (Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne)William CowperThe TaskPrint: Book
1850-1899'... my mother would read aloud to me. I particularly associate Cowper's ''Winter Walk at Noon'' with these readings. Cowper was a great favourite with her — both h...Emma Darwin William CowperThe Task, Book VI, Winter Walk at NoonPrint: Book


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