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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
 
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on Italian literature, actually by Ugo Foscolo] is per...George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam HobhouseHistorical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Ch...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his review of Hunt [in the Quarterly Review], where he has at...George Gordon Lord Byron Review of Leigh Hunt, FoliagePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Literary Character", in which marginal remarks from Byr...George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac DisraeliThe Literary CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Literary Character", in which marginal remarks from Byr...George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac DisraeliThe Literary CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's newspaper -- & with all the disfiguration & curtailm...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work entitled "The Vampire" with the a...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird, 15 May 1819: 'Three years & some months ago when you were reding [sic] "Bertram" at your brother's -- on my exclaiming in the words o...Charles 8th Lord Kinnaird Charles Robert MaturinBertramUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's "Friends" in which he seems to display his knowledge of the Subject by a covert Attack or two on Some of ...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonThe Friends: a PoemUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, ...George Gordon Lord Byron Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, ...George Gordon Lord Byron Count Vittorio Alfieri[marginalia]Manuscript: Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: "In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, ...Count Vittorio Alfieri Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 6 June 1819: 'I found ... such a pretty epitaph in the Certosa Cimetery -- or rather two -- one was "Martini Luigi Implora pace...George Gordon, Lord Byron n/an/aManuscript: Unknown, tombstone epitaphs
1800-1849Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's Inferno] -- but except her father Guido's tomb -- an...George Gordon Lord Byron Benvenuto da ImolaCommentary on Dante, CommediaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read this book in your garden ... you were absent -- or I co...George Gordon Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-HolsteinCorinnePrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to his wife, 20 July 1815: '[General] Becker showed us a copy of Buonaparte's letter to the Prince Regent, in which he says that driven out of hom...John Wilson Croker Napoleon Bonaparteletter to the Prince RegentManuscript: Unknown, Copied.
1800-1849'This book has helped me incalculably in surmounting coterie-notions of the nature of another life, as well as of the objects of this.'Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not defend the bad construction of his story. I lament it, & can only wonder what bewitches us all, - us story-makers, - that we cannot make a story, - Boz, Bulwer...Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1800-1849'I quite agree with you about Leonidas &c. I have greatly enjoyed finding myself a child again over Macaulay's 'Lays'. Castor & Pollux really took away my breath. How ...Harriet Martineau Thomas Babington MacaulayLays of Ancient RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'I suppose you shared the benefit, so common, thank God! in our generation, - of an early, & thorough familiarity with Mrs Barbauld's Prose Hymns. I know no book influen...Harriet Martineau Anna Laetitia BarbauldHymns in Prose for ChildrenPrint: Book
1800-1849["The Great Drought"] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the Great Plague.'Mary Russell Mitford Caroline CliveThe Great DroughtPrint: Serial / periodical


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