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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
 
1900-1945'Belchamber (1904) by Howard ("Howdie") Overing Sturgis (1855-1920), a prosperous American expatriate, has for its principal character "Sainty" -- the Marquis and Earl of...Virginia Woolf Howard Overing SturgisBelchamberPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have looked into the Belfast Town and Country Almanack - and consulted several cunning men upon the subject - and from all quartrs, I collect - that the moon will be f...Thomas Carlyle anonBelfast Town & County AlmanackPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as much as you please. She is delightful exquisite in h...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell MitfordBelford RegisPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835: 'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five offspring came [...] Meg took them under her especi...Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam Mary Russell MitfordBelford RegisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes, and was amused, and on the whole much pleased with ...Barbara Hofland Mary Russell MitfordBelford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country TownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Our little community have been delighting themselves with your "Belford Regis"; accept their untied thanks for it [...] The book is republished rather shabbily by Carey....Catharine Sedgwick Mary Russell MitfordBelford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country TownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Your last book still rolls on, gathering golden opinions, and I for one thank you, for I have been passing the last fortnight in the country, and perhaps there is no boo...N.P. Willis Mary Russell MitfordBelford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country TownPrint: Book
1800-1849?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this bright image that she repeats it again in her Comic...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthBelindaPrint: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] asked [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795 to "make me a present of that vol: of Bells forgotten poetry which contains The Minstrel and Sir martyn" ... [he]includ...William Wordsworth John BellBell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive PoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading aloud some pieces from Bells Elocutionist...When the ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Bell's ElocutionistPrint: Book
1800-1849'A very small market this day... I saw Bells's life in London with a portrait of Mr Canning. It is a strange rough concern, the onlyconsolation is that it cannot be his l...Robert Sharp Bell's Life in London and Sporting ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Prisoner's defence in trial for forgery: "On reading Bell's Weekly Messager of the 25th of January last, which fell into my hands, I found the following paragraph, whi...John Hill Wagstaff Bell's Weekly MessagerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'From Bell's weekly Messenger, April 13 1834. "The late Rudolph Ackermann, Esqr, whose death we announced in our...C.M.G. [anon] Bell's Weekly Messenger (obituaries)Print: Newspaper
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Rafael SabatiniBellarionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; the preface to "Belle...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Samuel] [Parr]Bellendenus [preface to]Print: Book
1800-1849[Robert Browning] 'published a sort of poem called Bells & Pomegranates in wh. there is no meaning at all.'Caroline Clive Robert BrowningBells and PomegranatesPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842: 'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult of delight which your most noble Dramatic Lyrics h...Joseph and Maria ArnouldRobert BrowningBells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics)Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1842: 'Mr Browning's last "Bells and Pomegranates" I sigh over. There are fine things [...] But there is much ...Elizabeth Barrett Robert BrowningBells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics)Print: Book
1800-1849'Went with E. Allen to the Swan to see a London paper, saw one and learnt from it that Col. Evans was return'd to Westminster ... a sad shock to the Ministry- Bells - in ...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]Bells Weekly MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Shelley is not well - he reads Lucan'Percy Bysshe Shelley LucanBellum Civile / PharsaliaPrint: Book


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