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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'Mary has been reading to us (I stopped writing to hear it) the account of the death of Mr. Pitt - happy for him that he had died at this time!'Mary Wordsworth  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.'Dorothy Wordsworth Philip MassingerBashful Lover, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.'Dorothy Wordsworth PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes receiving only 'two last volumes' of 'Mr Clarkson's Book': 'we may yet have to wait a fortnight or three weeks for the other [received by Wil...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas ClarksonPortraiture of Quakerism as taken from a view of t...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just begun to read Mr Knight's Book, which you were very kind in sending.'Dorothy Wordsworth Richard Payne KnightAn Analytical Enquiry into the Principles of TastePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Lady Beaumont how she received a letter from her: 'A few minutes before your letter arrived, William [Wordsworth] had set forward with his...William and Dorothy WordsworthLady Beaumont[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'W[illia]m [Wordsworth] has read most of Mr Clarkson's book and has been much pleased, but he complains of the second volume being exceedingly disfigured by perpetual use...William Wordsworth Thomas ClarksonPortraiture of Quakerism as taken from a View of t...Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth: 'I read in the papers with great pain the account of Mungo Park's disastrous end ... 'William Wordsworth [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have been reading Fox's Book of Martyrs - not straight forward; but choice parts, it is a very interesting Book The account of the deaths of Ridley and Latimer (espec...Dorothy Wordsworth John FoxBook of MartyrsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am now reading Gray's life and letters.'Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas GrayLife and LettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'I hope the execrable Murderer will prove to have been an Irishman; the Scotch much to their honour have hitherto been little tainted by that detestable crime. I had rea...William Wordsworth [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I often think of the happy evening when, by your fireside, my Brother read to us the first book of the Paradise lost ... 'William Wordsworth John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them. In the first place my Brother and Si...William Wordsworth HutchinsonMemoirs of Colonel HutchinsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them ... I have not quite finished the anec...Dorothy Wordsworth D. ThiebaultAnecdotes of Frederick IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'We travelled ... to Nottingham, where we walked about and viewed the Castle and town, an interesting old place, and particularly so to us at that time having just read M...Wordsworth FamilyLucy HutchinsonMemoirs of Colonel HutchinsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'We had read his [Thomas Clarkson's] book ... William [Wordsworth] I believe made a few remarks upon paper, but he had not time for much criticism, and in fact having onl...William Wordsworth Thomas ClarksonHistory of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment o...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I cannot express how much pleasure my Brother has already received from Dr. Whitaker's Books, though they have been only two days in his possession - Almost the whole ti...William Wordsworth Thomas Dunham WhitakerHistory and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, ...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson: 'You had been strangely misinformed of the nature of the Edinburgh Review of William [Wordsworth]'s poems [ie his Poems in Two V...Dorothy Wordsworth Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'In passing through Penrith I had an opportunity of seeing his [Francis Jeffrey's] last Review [of Wordsworth's Poems on Two Volumes, ...William Wordsworth Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth describes coach journey from London, having already observed that the coach guard was a former grocer on his first day in the new job: 'At Lancaster I...[a grocer] Anon William Wordsworth[poems]Unknown


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