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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		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 Alexander Pope Print: 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 George Gordon Lord Byron Print: 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 Edward Young Print: 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 Cowper Print: 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...Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood Virgil  Print: 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...Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Edward Fitzgerald to Emily Tennyson [1862], in reponse to request for information on fishing and fishermen (as background for writing of Alfred Tennyson's), and after var...Edward Fitzgerald DampierVoyagesPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'Tennyson was greatly impressed by the deadly-earnest and savagery, and let me say [italics]sadness[end ital...Alfred Tennyson Jonathan SwiftLegion ClubPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'Tennyson was greatly impressed by the deadly-earnest and savagery, and let me say [italics]sadness[end ital...Alfred Tennyson Jonathan SwiftLegion ClubPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'I have an old commonplace book, into which [...] I had copied an epigram by Thomas Hood. It runs as follows...Alfred Tennyson Thomas HoodepigramManuscript: Unknown, In hand of Frederick Locker-Lampson, in commonplace book belonging to him.
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'I have an old commonplace book, into which [...] I had copied an epigram by Thomas Hood. It runs as follows...Frederick Locker-Lampson Thomas HoodepigramUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'During our cruise [on The Sunbeam, Lord Brassey's yacht] my father drew upon his wonderful memory for some of...Henry Hallam Thomas CarlyleThe French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Of "Romney's Remorse" [Tennyson] notes: "Edward Fitzgerald said in a letter, 'I read Hayley's Life of Romney the other day: Romney wanted but education and reading to ma...Edward Fitzgerald HayleyLife of RomneyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'"Crossing the Bar" was written in my father's eighty-first year, on a day in October when we came from Aldworth to Farringford. Before reaching Farringford he had the Mo...Hallam Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Crossing the Bar'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'My father considered Edmund Lushington's translation into Greek of "Crossing the Bar," one of the finest translations he had ever read'. Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Crossing the Bar'Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. He had told Disraeli that the "silly sooth" of love w...Alfred Tennyson Benjamin DisraeliHenrietta TemplePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Benjamin Jowett to Emily Tennyson, May 1868: 'I am glad that Alfred is thinking of Hildebrand. I remember a long time ago reading Bowden's Life of him, and either the ...Benjamin Jowett BowdenLife of HildebrandPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he occupied himself with the study of Grote's "History...Sir William Gomm George GroteA History of Greece (vols 1-5)Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he occupied himself with the study of Grote's "History...Harriet Grote Sir William GommAnnotations to George Grote, A History of Greece (...
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he occupied himself with the study of Grote's "History...George Grote Sir William GommAnnotations to George Grote, A History of Greece (...


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