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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'Prelude MS W contains a fair copy of a verse translation of the tale of the travellers and the angel from Gower's Confessio Amantis ii 291-364 in D[orothy] W[ordsworth]'...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownTale Imitated from GowerUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 10 August 1811, within two weeks of his mother's death: 'I am very lonely, & should think myself miserable, were it not for a kind of hysteric...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 November 1812: 'I am still here only sad in the prospect of going [from home of Lord and Lady Oxford]; reading, laughing, & playing ... with y...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday - the second seem...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown[epigram on J. W. Ward]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown[epigram on J. W. Ward]Unknown
Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making some remarks on ye. blank pages - there are many beaut...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknownPersian TaleManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my life is monotonous, and yet desultory. I take up boo...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown[books]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 13 December 1813: 'Called at three places - read, and got ready to leave town to-morrow.'George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 December 1813: 'Redde some Italian, and wrote two Sonnets on *** [Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster].'George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[Italian]Unknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Nine o'clock'): 'Redde a little - wrote notes, and letters, and am alone ... 'George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Midnight'): 'Began a letter, which I threw into the fire. Redde - but to little purpose.'George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'As [Richard] Sharpe was passing by the doors of some Debating Society (the Westminster Forum), in his wa...Richard Sharp unknown[poster advertising a debate on Byron and Scott]Print: Advertisement, Poster
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'Redde a satire on myself, called Anti-Byron, and told Murray to publish it if he liked. The object of t...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownAnti-ByronUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 10 April 1814: 'Today I have boxed one hour - written an ode to Napoleon Buonaparte - copied it - eaten six biscuits - d...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'I have been regaled at every Inn on the road [from Newstead to London] by lampoons and other merry conceits on myself in the minist...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[ministerial gazettes]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 March 1814: 'I have not had time to read the whole M.S. but what I have seen seems very well written (both prose and verse) & ... containing noth...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownAnti-ByronManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, April- 1 May 1814, on his relations with his half-sister: 'it is odd that I always had a foreboding -- and remember when quite a child reading th...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[Roman History]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to unknown correspondent, 29 June 1814: 'Sir / -- I have to thank you for the perusal of your work -- and assure You that I perfectly coincide with your judges in t...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, [?July 23-24 1814]: 'I have read the article & concur in opinion with Mr. Rogers & my friends that I have every reason to be satisfied. -- You best...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[article]Unknown
1800-1849Byron recommends history books in letter to Annabella Milbanke, 25 August 1814: 'the best thing of that kind I met with by accident at Athens in a Convent Library in an...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[history book]Print: Book


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