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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
1850-1899		David Vincent notes the former agricultural labourer (and later trades union leader and M.P.) Joseph Arch's recollection in his memoir that, after work, '"I would stick l...Joseph Arch  Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and Burns whilst on '"solitary walks on summer evenings"...Benjamin Brierley George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and Burns whilst on '"solitary walks on summer evenings"...Benjamin Brierley Robert Burns Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of the Bible, I know not that I ever read any other bo...Thomas Carter The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of the Bible, I know not that I ever read any other bo...Thomas Carter James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to...Harriet Martineau Thomas De Quincey'Lake Reminiscences, from 1807-1830. By the Englis...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to...Harriet Martineau Henry Fothergill ChorleyLion: A Tale of the Coteries, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of ...Harriet Martineau Michel de Montaigne Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of ...Harriet Martineau Moliere (pseud.)unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of ...Harriet Martineau Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Is not "Cinq Mars" very fine? I should like to read more of De Vigny'.Harriet Martineau Alfred de VignyCinq MarsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Farewell to the Year/ by Luis Baylon [?], translated by J.G. Lockhart'; [Text] 'Hark friends! It strikes -the year's ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Luis BaylonFarewell to the YearPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'While at Cromer [...] I read "Pendennis" with such intense enjoyment [...] that the notion of trying my hand once more at a novel seized upon me'.Harriet Martineau William Makepeace ThackerayThe History of PendennisPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Sir Arthur Helps to the publisher Macmillan, 'I have lately re-read "Deerbrook" with exceeding delight.'Sir Arthur Helps Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's [italics]In Memoriam[end italics]: 'Like most other people (whom I have met wit...Harriet Martineau Alfred TennysonThe PrincessPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From chapter entitled 'Conversations' in Maria Weston Chapman's 'Memorials' of Harriet Martineau: 'Reading an article of Miss Alcott's, she [Martineau] says, "Transcenden...Harriet Martineau Louisa May AlcottTranscendental Wild Oats (article)Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Harriet Martineau, in letter of 8 July 1862: 'If Mr. Lucas's book should come in your way ("Secularia: Surveys on the Main Stream of History") do look at the chapter last...Harriet Martineau LucasSecularia: Surveys on the Main Stream of HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From letter of Elizabeth B. Ker, niece of Harriet Martineau: 'I regret infinitely that she desired all her letters to be destroyed. I had so large a boxful that it took ...Elizabeth B. Ker Harriet MartineauLife in the SickroomPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath/And stars...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonymousThe season of deathPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me long;/ I come o'er the mountains with light and song...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia HemansThe voice of springPrint: Unknown


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