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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
 
1800-1849During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g...John Cole Richard Brinsley SheridanThe DuennaPrint: Book
1800-1849During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g...John Cole  Print: Book
1800-1849During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g...John Cole  Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen "Glenarvon". Madame de Stael lent it to me to read from Copet last autumn. It seems to me ...George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of the French papers chooses to tell me, -- or the adv...George Gordon Lord Byron ["the Italian version of the French papers"]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webster ... Amongst the ingredients of this volume I was ...George Gordon, Lord Byron James Wedderburn WebsterWaterloo and Other PoemsPrint: Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849This is emphatic enough.- I need not speak of Dr Chalmers' boisterous treatise upon the causes & cure of pauperism in the last Edinr review. His reasoning (so they call ...Thomas Carlyle Dr ChalmersTitle unknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817, on review of his work in Quarterly Review received two days previously: '... I ... flatter myself that the writer ... will not regret ...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottReview of Byron, Childe Harold Canto III and The P...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points for the reader (Magdalene Erskine). Vol. 2 has a n...Magdalene Erskine Anne GrantLetters from the Mountains; being the real corresp...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta, which she copied and let Murray see.' Augusta Leigh George Gordon Lord Byrontravel journalManuscript: Codex
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta, which she copied and let Murray see.' John Murray George Gordon Lord Byrontravel journalManuscript: Codex
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 31 March 1817: 'I have bought several books ... among others a complete Voltaire in 92 volumes -- whom I have been reading -- he is delightful...George Gordon Lord Byron VoltaireOeuvres Completes de Voltaire. De L'Imprimerie de...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between St. Paul and the Corinthians, not to be found in ou...George Gordon Lord Byron St. Paul Epistles to CorinthiansPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849One of my many visitors this summer, - R.M. Milnes, made earnest enquiry for you. I do hope you like his poetry almost as much as he likes yours. I keep a vol. of his a...Harriet Martineau R.M. Milnes Print: Book
1800-1849Have you read 'Zanoni'? And do you relish the gathering up of dropped (or strewed) Platonisms, & forming them into such a crown of glory, - of holy radiance, as the moral...Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the staircase on which he was beheaded at the Doge's Palac...George Gordon Lord Byron Johan Christoph von SchillerGeisterseherPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817: 'There have been two Articles in the Venice papers one a review of C. Lamb's "Glenarvon" ... the other a review of C[hilde] Har[ol]d i...George Gordon Lord Byron reviews of Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon, and Byron, Ch...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817: 'Will you remember me to Ld. and Lady Holland -- I have to thank the former for a book which I have not yet received -- but expect t...George Gordon Lord Byron Lord HollandSome Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Feli...Print: 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...John Andre de Luc George Gordon Lord ByronThe Prisoner of ChillonPrint: 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


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