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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 28 June 1815, on learning of abdication of Napoleon: '11 o'clock. Before I go to bed I must tell you that, saving grief for the...Dorothy Wordsworth  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 28 June 1815: 'I have seen the British Critic which contains a Review by a Friend of the Coleridges' which between ourselves I t...Dorothy Wordsworth British CriticPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to B. R. Haydon, 21 December 1815: 'Have you read the works of the Abbe [Johann Joachim] Winkelman on the study of the Antique, in Painting and Sculptu...William Wordsworth Johann Joachim WinkelmanReflections concerning the imitation of the Grecia...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 23 December 1815: 'We have now nine sheets of the journal [by Captain Luff re time in Mauritius] - I do not intend to read it un...Dorothy Wordsworth Captain LuffjournalManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 31 December 1815: 'In reading the 3rd Book of the Excursion last night what a pang did I feel for our poor widowed Friend Mrs Lu...Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthExcursion, TheManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott, 22 February 1816: 'Your Paris Revisited has been in constant use since I received it ... Nothing in your works has charmed us more than ...Wordsworth FamilyJohn ScottParis Revisited in 1815 by way of BrusselsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott, 25 February 1816, on own and contemporaries' endeavours to celebrate victory at Waterloo in verse: 'Southey is a Fellow labourer. I hav...William Wordsworth Robert Southey[Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo, The]Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth: 'We thank you for your Consecration Sermon, which we received free of expense. We have read it with much pleasure, and unit...William Wordsworth Christopher WordsworthA sermon preached in the Chapel of Lambeth at the ...Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth: "We thank you for your Consecration Sermon, which we received free of expense. We have read it with much pleasure, and unit...Wordsworth FamilyChristopher WordsworthA sermon preached in the Chapel of Lambeth at the ...Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies (postmarked 9 April 1816): 'Your obliging Present [new book of poems] reached me yesterday ... I read the volume through immediately: ...William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesIllustrations of a Poetical Character, in six Tale...Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott: "I have read your late Champions with much pleasure"William Wordsworth The ChampionPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies: " ... your poem [Rinaldo] I have read with considerable attention."William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesRinaldo, a desultory PoemUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 10 January 1817, re visit to Mrs Threlkeld (very fond of C. Clarkson) at Halifax: 'I read her your last letter adding a few word...Dorothy Wordsworth Catherine Clarkson Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Evidence to Parliamentary Committee from Rev. Thomas Spencer, a Church of England clergyman: "I was appealed to in the parish of which I was incumbent for 22 years, by... anon  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "My experience is this: that what interested me most of all in newspaper reading, and what ...William Edward Hickson The ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps: "I formed in the village where I am now living, when I first went there, an evening class o...William Edward Hickson The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Statement of a juvenile offender: "I have been twice in prison. I was only in Liverpool two days. I came from Manchester to the races; I had no work. I have been at al...H.T. William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, read as numbers or volume?
1800-1849Statement of a juvenile offender: "I have been five times in prison. I have been as the Sanspareil and at all the theatres... I am sure had I never known the theatres ...T.A William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book
1800-1849Statement of a juvenile offender: "I came from Manchester to the races. I was taken into custody when I had only been in Liverpool two days. I was taken up for attempt...G.G. William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book
1800-1849Statement of a juvenile offender: "I have been three times in prison and once discharged. I have been at the Sanspareil and Amphitheatre; I have also been at the penny...J.M. William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book


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