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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'read two odes of Anacreon before breakfast'.Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Anacreon[odes]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 3 odes of Anacreon'Mary Shelley Anacreon[Odes]Print: Book
1700-1799'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amusement, "not voyages and travels, but all literature, ...Samuel Johnson Anacreon Print: Book
1700-1799'I wrote to him, begging to know the state of his health, and mentioned that Baxter's "Anacreon", "which is in the library at Auchinleck, was, I find, collated by my fath...James Boswell Anacreon Print: Book
1700-1799''15:Jan: 1778 Mr Johnson told me today that he had translated Anacreon's Dove, & as they were the first Greek Verses that had struck him when a Boy; so says he they cont...Samuel Johnson AnacreonDovePrint: Book
1700-1799'I must ask Baretti who translated the Sonnet of Anacreon into such pretty Italian Verse.' [some lines are given]Hester Lynch Thrale AnacreonAnacreon to himselfUnknown
1800-1849Letter 447. April, 19th, 1832: "These are the lines from Anacreon, Makarizomen se tettix, Hote dendreoon ep’ akroon Oligeen droson pepookoos, Basileus hopoos, aeide...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Anacreon Print: Book
1700-1799?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan, Collins, Woolston, Annet, Mandeville, Shaftesbury, ...James Lackington AnnetunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'lines on the death of a general officer in the east indies / ladies monthly museum' 'the muffled drums dull moan /... [transcription of poem]Mary Groom anonLines On The Death Of A General Officer In The Eas...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of penny dreadfuls: "Bill couldn't read a bit, but he...Charley anon[penny dreadfuls]Print: Serial / periodical, penny dreadful
1800-1849Recorded in Joseph Farington's diary, '[On 21 May] Sir George [Beaumont] mentioned the high encomiums for Wordsworth's "Excursion" in the Eclectic Review. Wordsworth had...William Wordsworth anonEclectic ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The Wordsworths were reading the Morning Chronicle during the 1800s. It was the source of ... the recipe for croup medicine ... entered in the Commonplace Book.'Wordsworth Family anon[Recipe for croup medicine]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Writing to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank on 19 April 1809, S[ara] H[utchinson] remarked that she had seen a churn "advertized in the Courier yesterday". She refers to ...Sara Hutchinson anonCourierPrint: Advertisement, NewspaperManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Byron to John Hanson, [? November 1799]: 'I congratulate you on Capt. Hanson's being appointed commander of the Brazen sloop of war ... The manner I knew that Capt. Hanso...George Gordon, Lord Byron anon[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Byron, 25 April 1805: 'You say you are sick of the Installation [of seven Knights of the Garter at Windsor], and that Ld. C[arlisle] was not present; I h...George Gordon Lord Byron anonMorning PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long account of Robbery &c. &c. committed on the persons o...George Gordon, Lord Byron anon[morning newspaper]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady of the Lake" advertised[;] of course it is in his o...George Gordon Lord Byron Anonadvertisement for Scott, The Lady of The LakePrint: Advertisement, NewspaperUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, acknowledging receipt of parcel of books and letters from Christian well-wishers, 14 September 1812, including Granville Penn, "The Bioscope, or Dia...George Gordon Lord Byron anon Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Urethra" I see most appropriately consequent - a poem w...George Gordon, Lord Byron anonadvertisement for William Wadd, Practical Observat...Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Urethra" I see most appropriately consequent - a poem w...George Gordon, Lord Byron anonadvertisement for Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Vers...Print: Advertisement, Newspaper


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