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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		Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?3 December, 1850: 'I send the first volume of Pendennis. We have one more which Robert is finishing'.Robert Browning William Makepeace ThackerayThe History of PendennisPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850: 'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] One drawback is not being able to get new books till...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAlfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850: 'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] One drawback is not being able to get new books till...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCharles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850: 'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] One drawback is not being able to get new books till...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Latter-Day PamphletsPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 12 January 1851: 'Now I am going to speak to you about those sonnets [...] The truth is that though th...Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browningsonnets ['from the Portugese']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaissance-period texts, by William Gifford in his Memoir ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William GiffordMemoir of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...Bewicke Blackburne Thomas CarlyleCromwellPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...Bewicke Blackburne Thomas Carlyle'Frederick'Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...Bewicke Blackburne Thomas CarlyleLatter DaysPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable works within his reach relating to the Bible, and tra...Alfred Tennyson BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable works within his reach relating to the Bible, and tra...Alfred Tennyson works on BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable works within his reach relating to the Bible [...] ...Alfred Tennyson philosophical textsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at his request read "Maud." It appears that the poor ma...Alfred Tennyson anon 12-canto poem on battle of WaterlooManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at his request read "Maud." It appears that the poor ma...anon texts used in teaching self to readPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'When Fanny Kemble heard that my father read his "Maud" finely, she wrote: "I do not think any reading of Tennyson's can ever be as striking and impressive as that "Curse...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Curse of BoadiceaUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Mrs Vyner, a stranger,' to Alfred Tennyson, from River, New South Wales, 1855: 'I fancy a poet's heart must be so large and loving that he can feel for and forgive ev...Mrs Vyner Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'During the winter evenings of 1855 my father would translate the Odyssey aloud into Biblical prose for my mother, who writes, "Thus I get as much as it is possible to ha...Alfred Tennyson Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accept, the best books in the world (except the Bible), H...Benjamin Jowett HegelPhilosophy of HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accept, the best books in the world (except the Bible), H...Benjamin Jowett Bunsenwork on BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood John Dryden Print: Book


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