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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
 
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 4 January 1840: 'Read Mr. Thom's account of the Oxford theology, drawn from their own writings: good [...] Have been reading Wilberforce: grow...Harriet Martineau William WilberforceunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I wrote a letter to Chas Butten at Tocopilla & then read a good bit from the book Cousin W.B gave me before leaving England & in Practical Christianity.'James Bennetts Williams William WilberforcePractical ChristianityPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle William WilkieThe EpigoniadPrint: Book
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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
1700-1799[Transcript in Journal of Chapter One, in shorthand]John Byrom William WollastonThe Religion of Nature DelineatedPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began, and read the first section of, Wollaston's "Religion of Nature"...'Thomas Green William WollastonReligion of Nature delineatedPrint: Book
1700-1799'[italics] Wollaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, tho' frequently intermingled with Mathematical Proofs, is yet so plain, that it demonstrates the Autho...Laetitia Pilkington William WollastonReligion of Nature Delineated, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr [italics] Woolaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, shews us powerfully, how much a Lye offends the Creator; as I am tax'd with numerous Quotations, wh...Laetitia Pilkington William WoolastonReligion of Nature Delineated, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'lucy / wordsworth she dwelt in the untrodden ways,beside the springs of dove...' Transcribes text but with significant errors when compared to wordsworth's original. The...Mary Groom William WordsworthSong: she dwelt among th' untrodden waysUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William WordsworthBenjamin the WaggonerPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth describes coach journey from London, having already observed that the coach guard was a former grocer on his first day in the new job: 'At Lancaster I...[a grocer] Anon William Wordsworth[poems]Unknown
1800-1849'In compliance with frequent entreaties I took the MSS [of The White Doe of Rylstone] to [Charles] Lamb's to read it, or part of it, one evening. There unluckily I found...William Wordsworth William WordsworthWhite Doe of Rylstone, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe; and Coleridge's Christabel to him, with both of whi...William Wordsworth William WordsworthWhite Doe of Rylstone, ThePrint: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1800-1849Transcription of William Wordsworh, "Fidelity" in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 2 March 1806 (first four stanzas as in 1807 edition, followed by furthe...Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthFidelityManuscript: Unknown
Transcription of William Wordsworth, "Star-Gazers" appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 15 November 1806.Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthStar-GazersUnknown
Transcription of William Wordsworth, 'The Force of Prayer' appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 18 October 1807.Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthThe Force of PrayerManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 'Sunday Night, June 4th [1809]': 'Nothing but vexation seems to attend me in this affair of the Pamphlet [The Convention of Cintra]....William Wordsworth William WordsworthConvention of Cintra, ThePrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 18 Novembr [1809]: 'Sara [Hutchinson] has been kept almost constantly busy in transcribing ... For William [Wordsworth] she has ...Sara Hutchinson William WordsworthIntroduction to Select Views in Cumberland, Westmo...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... the whimsey of Lamb and the stirring rhythmic ta...Chaim Lewis William Wordsworth'Daffodils'Print: 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


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