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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' ... a most violent attack is preparing for me in the the next number of the Edinburgh Review, this I have from the authority of a friend who has seen the proof and manu...anon Henry Broughamreview of Byron, Hours of IdlenessPrint: proofManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides on...Thomas Babington Macaulay Aeschylus Print: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides o...Thomas Babington Macaulay SophoclesunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides o...Thomas Babington Macaulay Euripides Print: Book
1800-1849'I told him of my having now read every play of Euripides; & he seemed very much surprised [...] and observed, that very few men had done as much'.Elizabeth Barrett Euripides[all plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure; and we chang...Austen familyCharlotte LennoxThe Female Quixote, or, the Adventures of ArabellaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849'When Wordsworth was then spoken of as a great poet, the ordinary question was, "Why is he not more popular?" The process through which public opinion gradually turns fro...Charles Knight Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'On the 28th September I was reading "Blackwood", when the magazines of our metropolis were just getting on their outer garments; while their northern brethren were quiet...Charles Knight Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me exceedingly.'Jane Austen Eaton Stannard BarrettThe Heroine; or, Adventures of CherubinaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan SwiftThe Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St PatrickPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles James BlomfieldA Charge Delivered to the Clergy of his DiocesePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph Blanco WhitePractical and Internal Evidence against CatholicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'We did not begin reading [the proof-sheets of "Mansfield Park"] till Bentley Green. Henry's approbation hitherto is even equal to my wishes; he says it is very differen...Henry Austen Jane AustenMansfield ParkManuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced P...Princess Charlotte Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorc...Princess Charlotte George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced P...Princess Charlotte [memoirs and history]Print: Book
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced P...Princess Charlotte Anne Plumptre[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton Alain Rene Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton Mary Wortley Montagu[Letters]Print: Book


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