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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
 
1900-1945I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marriage on Two Hundred a YearPrint: Book
1700-1799Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those books -- and had read them through and through befo...George Gordon Lord Byron Books of Old TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822: 'I have not seen the thing you mention [John Watkins, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron] ... nor h...George Gordon Lord Byron Advertisement for [John Watkins], Memoirs of the L...Print: Advertisement
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1821: 'By extracts in the English papers in your holy Ally -- Galignani's messenger -- I perceive that the "two greatest examples of huma...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Newspaper
Byron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... "Mirandola" [was] not announced till the winter following [summer 1820]. The first time I ...George Gordon Lord Byron advertisement for "Mirandola"Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822: 'In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's Magazine, in which it is said that there are people who have disco...George Gordon Lord Byron article originally appearing in Blackwood's Edinbu...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 26 May 1822, giving directions for burial of his daughter Allegra at Harrow Church: 'Near the door -- on the left as you enter -- there is a monumen...George Gordon Lord Byron  Manuscript: epitaph
1800-1849Byron to the Rev Thomas Hall, 14 August 1822: 'I have observed in Galignani's paper lists of the Subscribers and Subscriptions for the Irish poor from Florence, but not f...George Gordon Lord Byron Lists of subscribers to Irish poor relief fundsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1822, sending back unread Quarterly Review (having decided to read no more reviews): '[Galignani] ... has forwarded a copy of at least on...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac...Grace Macaulay The Wave and the BattlefieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ...Caroline Clive Memoirs of a MissionaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 31 July 1810: 'I see by the papers 15th May my Satire [English Bards and Scotch Reviewers] is in a third Edition ...'George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: ' ... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have [seen?] at least a score of one description or ano...George Gordon Lord Byron Critical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: '... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have [seen?] at least a score of one description or anot...George Gordon Lord Byron The Eclectic ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 27 April 1819: 'In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work entitled "the Vampire" with the addition of my name as...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 28 April 1820: 'I perceive in a long advertisement of what you are pleased to call Ld. Byron's works -- the name of an "Ode to the land o...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Everyman magazine with "opening up an entirely new set...James Murray EverymanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Hunt, 5 July 1823: 'I have seen the Blackwood [review of The Age of Bronze]: but I still think it a pity to prosecute.'George Gordon Lord Byron review of Byron, The Age of BronzePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I...Philip Ballard [lives and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to the Chronica Greca, 23 May 1824 (translated from Italian): 'I have read for the first time yesterday an article in the Chronica Greca [paper actually entitled th...George Gordon Lord Byron Hellenica ChronicaPrint: Newspaper


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