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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'I see Roughs Lorenzino reviewed. I had not expected much.' Robert Southey anonReview of William Rough, Lorenzini di Medici Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Mrs Barbauld has written some lines to Coleridge advising him to abandon metaphysics. the poem is not...Robert Southey Anna Letitia Barbauld‘To S. T. Coleridge, 1797’Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Coleridge has written a tragedy — by request of Sheridan. it is uncommonly fine — tho every charact...Robert Southey S.T. ColeridgeOsorioUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: '...but there is a man, whose name is not known in the world — Wordsworth — who has written great part...Robert Southey William WordsworthThe BorderersManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 30 September 1797: '... this took a strange turn when I was about nine years old. I had been reading the historical plays of...Robert Southey William Shakespeare[history plays, particularly Henry VI, Parts I and...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 6 October 1797: 'Coleridge has so far compleated his tragedy that he has only the task of correcting it to perform. he passed thro Bath & rea...Samuel Taylor Coleridge S.T. ColeridgeOsorioManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'I have procured an old translation of De Serres. but I am told the best account of the Maid [of Orleans...Robert Southey Jean de SerresHistoire de France Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'I have procured an old translation of De Serres. but I am told the best account of the Maid [of Orleans...Robert Southey Gregory Lewis WayFabliaux or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscript...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'In Chaucer I for ever find the ribible — but nothing else & no explanation of that. now tho I have use...Robert Southey Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'In Chaucer I for ever find the ribible — but nothing else & no explanation of that. now tho I have use...Robert Southey Gines Perez de HitaGuerras Civiles de GranadaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 2 November 1797: 'I saw Bullers death in the news-paper. — it surprized me. we are accustomed to think it dreadful for a young man to die dur...Robert Southey account of death of William BullerPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 2 November 1797: 'We have had a dreadful suicide here. the whole is in the Monthly Magazine.'Robert Southey Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 11 November 1797: 'Amos Cottles translation of the Edda is published, & I have brought over a copy for you. you know it was my intentio...Robert Southey Amos Simon CottleIcelandic Poetry, or the Edda of Saemund Translate...Print: 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
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 November 1797: 'I know that our tastes differ much in poetry. & yet I think you must like these lines by Charles Lamb....Robert Southey Charles Lamb'Written Soon after the Preceding Poem’Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return from a library belonging to the dissenters — in Red...Robert Southey Johannes Ravisius TextorDe Memorabilibus et Claris Mulieribus: Aliquot Div...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return from a library belonging to the dissenters — in Re...Robert Southey Jean MassonHistoire Memorable de la Vie de Jeanne d’Arc, Appe...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return from a library belonging to the dissenters — in Re...Robert Southey Giacomo Filippo Foresti da BergamoDe Claris MulieribusPrint: Book
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'When we got home [from walking and visiting] I read and played till desert, after desert I wrote to you.'Lady Harriet Cavendish  Print: Book
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'As soon as breakfast was over I read and played on the harp'.Lady Harriet Cavendish  Print: Book


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