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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'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'Mary Shelley John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Oct. 28th. [...] I walk out by myself about Kentish Town -- Read Comus.'Claire Clairmont John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'.Claire Clairmont John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go away in a coach at 1/2 past 8 [...] Sit up till ten reading Queen Mab'.Claire Clairmont John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849[Following Hallam Tennyson's description of his mother's attendance of her younger sister as bridesmaid in May 1836] 'My uncle Arthur says: "It was then I first saw yo...Emily Sellwood John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was passionately fond of poetry, being led to its study by accidentally meeting with Milton's minor poems, when about fourteen years of age. Though so young, I was i...John Leatherland John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads a part of Comus aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonComus (A mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634)Print: Book
1700-1799'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how many beautiful Images [italics] Milton [end italics]...Laetitia Pilkington John MiltonComus: A MasquePrint: Book
1700-1799'"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus, but I think very little remember'd'Hester Lynch Thrale John MiltonComus: A MasquePrint: Book
1900-1945'It is a most delightful lecture and most judiciously illustrated, if a mind so uncultivated as mine dares express an opinion.' Hence follows a page of appreciative comm...Joseph Conrad Sidney ColvinConcentration in English PoetryPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Ellen Thorneycroft FowlerConcerning Isabel CarnabyPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [Dora Montefiore (b. 1851)] recalls her father's ... practice of looking up Shakespeare's views on any topic which came up in conversation in a Concordance ...' Concordance to ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'I do not know Mr Joseph Kay's address or I should have written to thank him for his valuable and most interesting pamphlet on the Condition and Education of English chil...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Joseph KayCondition of Poor Children in English and German T...Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'I have just been reading and digesting Engel's Conditions of the Working Classes in England, in intention, heaven knows, a noble work; but he can't write, so it raised a...Edith Sitwell Friedrich EngelsConditions of the Working Classess in EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 7 November 1868: 'Began Lacordaire's [italics]Conferences de Notre Dame[end italics]. He starts with premises open to much disc...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Jean Baptiste Henri-Dominique LacordaireConferences de Notre Dame de ParisPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 11 February 1843: 'I wish I could send you the "Confessio amantis" -- I have read it but do not possess it -- & have bee...Elizabeth Barrett John GowerConfessio AmantisPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844: 'With regard to "La Confession Generale," I am in just your case, -- having read only the first volume, ...Elizabeth Barrett Frederic SoulieConfession generalePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845: 'Tell me, was Soulie's "Confession Generale" never finished? Did it stop short for ever at the second vol...Elizabeth Barrett Frederic SoulieConfession generale, vols 1 and 2Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety years old -- a Swiss -- had it read to him & is ple...George Gordon Lord Byron Jean-Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'From 7.40 to 9 1/2 reading aloud to myself from p.42 to 50 (very carefully) vol.I Rousseau's Confessions. I READ this work so attentively for the style's sake. Besides t...Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book


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