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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Hannah MoreCoelebs in Search of a WifePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Thomas De Quincey] got round to reading ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] only in late June or early July [1809], when "I read about 40 pages in the 1st. v...Thomas De Quincey Hannah MoreCoelebs in Search of a WifePrint: Book
1800-1849'Lamb read ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] at around ... [June-July 1809] ... on 7 June he told C[oleridge] that "it is one of the very poorest sort of com...Charles Lamb Hannah MoreCoelebs in Search of a WifePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		??the work of Mrs Hannah More called Coelebs in search of a wife, as not knowing well where to class it. It is too pure and too profound to be ranked with novels, and too...Charles Robert Maturin Hannah MoreCoelebs in search of a wifePrint: Book
1700-1799[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mor...Frances Burney Hannah MoreCoelebs in search of a wifePrint: Book
1850-1899In letter of 19 October 1890, Henry James writes (in French) to Urbain Mengin on having read Paul Bourget's new novel Coeur de Femme.Henry James Paul BourgetCoeur de FemmePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'coeurde lion at the bier of his father / new monthly magazine' [includes prose note] [transcription of poem]Mary Groom Felicia Dorothea HemansCoeur De Lion At The Bier Of His FatherPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Read lovely book: "Cold Comfort Farm"'.Hilary Spalding Stella GibbonsCold Comfort FarmPrint: Book
1800-1849Wiliam Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 19 [Sept] 1817: 'I have not read Mr. Coleridge's "Biographia", having contented myself with skimming parts of it ... 'William Wordsworth Samuel TaylorColeridgePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways. I could not help enjoying Ld Cornwallis, though hal...Harriet Martineau Harriet GroteCollected Papers in Prose and Verse. 1842-1862Print: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'The one [book] that I was given was Bernard Shaw. We went into a bookshop and my father said you can have any book you like which was very unwis...Hilary Spalding George Bernard ShawCollected PlaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'And the book came. And I've read one or two of the new ones. And I liked them yes - I liked the one to Enid Bagnold; and I think I see how you may develop differently....Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestCollected PoemsUnknown
1800-1849'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] made copies of extracts or complete texts from Philips' Collection in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between 10 July 1807 and c.5 J...Dorothy Wordsworth Ambrose PhilipsCollection of Old Ballads, APrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] "Sir, you know the notion of confinement may be extended, as in the song, "Every island is a prison." There is, in Dodsley's 'Collection', a copy of vers...Samuel Johnson Robert DodsleyCollection of Poems by Several Hands Print: Book
1700-1799'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...Hester Lynch Thrale Robert DodsleyCollection of Poems by Various HandsPrint: Book
1800-1849Just before tea... read from p.126 to 168, collections and recollections the last article a pretty well done account of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby.Anne Lister John StewartCollections and recollectionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 25.3.36
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

Ethel C. Stevens James Henry DuveenCollections and Recollections: a century and a hal...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Martin LutherColloquia mensaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Christopher Dowson, Jr., 10 March 1844: 'Yesterday I read my play to [Charles Kean] and his charming wife (who is to take the principal part) -- a...Robert Browning Robert BrowningColombe's BirthdayManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Bryan Waller Procter to Robert Browning, ?26 March 1844: 'I got your play last night then read it with very great pleasure [...] Colombe is a charming creature. The ...Bryan Waller Procter Robert BrowningColombe's BirthdayPrint: In proof copy


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