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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
 
1900-1945'Minutes of Meeting held at School House. 3rd April 1943
    R. D. L. Moore in the Chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & s...		Knox Taylor anon Chevy ChaseUnknown
1850-1899'Do you know the Chiffonier of Paris by F. Pyat — O my lad, that a melo! what a melo!'Robert Louis Stevenson Felix PyatChiffonier de Paris
1900-1945‘Your book—my book [Davies, "Child Lovers"] has just arrived, and it is finished. Only to increasing certainty that Davies was once an exquisite poet—of which time he...Ivor Bertie Gurney William Henry DaviesChild LoversPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Well … our gallant regiment … have been in it a damn sight more than ever they expected, by the Lord. We are hardened veterans, fed up to the neck, muddy to the eyes...Ivor Bertie Gurney William Henry DaviesChild LoversPrint: Book
1800-1849Report of prison chaplain on the progress of prisoner: "From his first arrival in gaol, he had been attended by the schoolmaster; and one day, when I examined his prog...J.G. Child's First BookPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'Your longer poem I have barely looked into ... 'William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesChilde Alarique, a poet's reverie with other poemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho...Elizabeth Barrett LamartineChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White George Gordon Lord ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849At 3 1/4 down the old bank to the library. Miss Maria Browne there. Came up to me to say her sister had so bad a cold [...] she could not possibly stir out today [...] I ...Miss Browne George Gordon ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849'finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics at the end of the book in readiness to take it back....Anne Lister George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without s...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philos...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold (Canto IV)Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 September 1816: 'I have read with great pleasure the poem you lent me [Childe Harold III]. It is written with great vigour, and...John Wilson Croker George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold IIIUnknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816, on William Gifford's response to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV: 'He has been exceedingly ill with jaundice [...] He s...William Gifford George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold IVManuscript: Unknown
Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure. I receive yo...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonChilde Harold's Monitor, or Lines occasioned by th...Unknown
1800-1849Leslie A. Marchand notes regarding 1812 letter in which Byron mentions sending a book (possibly Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) to Lady Caroline Lamb 'which [she] is not to l...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimageUnknown
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1800-1849		?But Lord Byron ? he must write with great ease and rapidity.? ?That I don?t know. I could never finish the perusal of any of his long poems. There is something in the...Charles Maturin George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'To Caroline Lamb, Queen of the Drawing-Rooms, a very early copy of Childe Harold was lent by Samuel Rogers [...] Instantly Rogers was summoned to Melbourne House, where ...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though it did include some novels -- Miss Edgeworth's and B...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Childe Harold I have read your Book & cannot refrain from telling you that I think it & all those whom I live with & whose opinions are far more worth having--think it ...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book


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