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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?As usual all the good I saw in my work, before it was printed, is now vanished from my sight and I remember only its faults. All the authors of both sexes, and artists t...Amelia Opie Amelia Opieher own works as they are publishedPrint: Book
1800-1849'6/11/1830 - I have just read the speeches of our Parliament in the Journal des Debats. How entirely I agree with Lord Grey; but the bare possibility of war with France i...Amelia Opie VariousJournal des DebatsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"4/2/1845 - I have read two volumes (the last two, I think) of Lord Malmesbury's Diaries, and with intense interest. I knew so many of the men he writes about, and lived ...Amelia Opie James HarrisDiariesPrint: Book
1800-1849"4/2/1845 - I am also reading Carlyle's History of the French Revolution - full of genius, pathos, and pictures; with all its faults (and it has great ones) still, I can ...Amelia Opie Thomas CarlyleHistory of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849"During the whole time of his [her father's] illness, Mrs Opie assiduously attended him; she had later joined the Quakers, and read to him much in the Bible and other rel...Amelia Opie Bible and other religious textsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I believe simple moral tales the very best mode of instructing the young and the poor ? else why do the pious of all sects and beliefs spread tracts in stories over the ...Amelia Opie unknown[moral tales]Print: Book
1800-1849'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece...Amelia Opie George BorrowunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter [n/a]The RamblerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The serious thoughts to which my illness gave rise were much strengthened by my reading at the time several of Dr Watt's "Lyric Poems" which then came first into my hand...Thomas Carter Isaac WattsHorae Lyricae, Poems Chiefly of the Lyric KindPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mer...Bronte Family The Leeds IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mer...Bronte Family The Leeds MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mer...Bronte Family The John BullPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Ellen Nussey's reminiscences of Patrick Bronte's sister-in-law Elizabeth Branwell (in 1871 account of her 1833 visit to Haworth Parsonage): 'In summer she spent part of t...Elizabeth Branwell  Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to Robert Southey, 16 March 1837: 'At the first perusal of your letter I felt only shame, and regret that I had ever ventured to trouble you [with reques...Charlotte Bronte Robert Southeyletter to Charlotte BronteManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Emily Bronte, diary paper for 26 June 1837: 'Monday evening June 26 1837 A bit past 4 o'clock Charolotte [sic] working in Aunts room Branwell reading "Eugene Aram" to...Branwell Bronte Edward Bulwer-LyttonEugene AramPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 4 August 1839, about event following visit of David Pryce, a young Irish curate, to Haworth Parsonage: 'A few days after I got a letter ...Charlotte Bronte David PryceletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Branwell Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 27 June 1840: 'I have ... striven to translate 2 books [of Horace] ... the first of which I have presumed to send you ...'Patrick Branwell Bronte Horace Print: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 10 December 1840: 'I am sorry Sir I did not exist forty or fifty years ago when the "Lady's magazine" was flourishing like a green ...Charlotte Bronte The Lady's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 2 April 1841: 'If you think I'm going to refuse your invitation ... you're mistaken -- as soon as I read your shabby little note -- I ga...Charlotte Bronte Ellen NusseyNote inviting Charlotte Bronte on visitManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Emily Bronte, diary paper for 30 July 1841 'It is Friday evening -- near 9 o'clock ... Aunt upstairs in her room -- she has been reading "Blackwood's Magazine" to papa .....Elizabeth Branwell Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical


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