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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'I have had a proof of a review of my dramas by Gillies - the analysis is good but the whole of the part that refers to me as the author I dislike but an author has no ri...James Hogg Gillies[review of Hogg's 'Dramatic Tales']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have had a weekend's C.B. Unshaven on parade ... from six to ten on Saturday and Sunday nights I had to double 600 yards to the guardroom, to report, every half-hour, ...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Mark Twain (pseud.)The Adventures of Tom SawyerPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have had all things considered and thanks principally to Philip, a very passable Christmas day [...] then went upstairs and read Phillip till lunchtime (you see I adhe...Robert Louis Stevenson William Makepeace ThackerayThe Adventures of PhilipPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have had an answer from Mrs Montagu full of rhetoric, and kindness; but no matter for the rhetoric! She is good to me; and charity covereth a multitude of sins- She s...Jane Baillie Welsh Mrs MontaguletterManuscript: Letter
1700-1799'I have had it before, but have brought it now for the sake of copying a story or two out of it, of which there are very many entertaining ones'Joseph Hunter Leman Thomas RedeAnecdotes and Biography, including many modern cha...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked in the Margin: that he should Attain to Perfection by...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopePastoralsManuscript: book
1700-1799'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked in the Margin: that he should Attain to Perfection by...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander Pope'Third pastoral'Print: Book
1700-1799'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked in the Margin: that he should Attain to Perfection by...Hester Lynch Thrale Virgil'Second Eclogue'Print: Book
1700-1799'I have had so many amorous Epistles, Odes, Songs, Anacreonticks, Saphics, Lyrics, and Pindaricks, in Praise of my Mind and Person too, sent to me since I came to [italic...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][poems sent by admirers]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and telling you so. The last Canto of it is much the bes...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronCorsair, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and telling you so. The last Canto of it is much the bes...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and telling you so. The last Canto of it is much the bes...James Hogg Samuel RogersJacquelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page to page, with unwearied interest and entertainment. I...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottLife of Napoleon BuonapartePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page to page, with unwearied interest and entertainment. I...Sarah Harriet Burney [Reviews in the Quarterly Review of Bishop Heber's...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have had within these few days a curious MS. sent to me by an English gentleman a Dr T. Brown who intreats me to take a hand in editing it and I think it would take re...James Hogg T. BrownArt of reading and conversing on the works of the ...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I have heard Doctor Collier say [wrote Hester Thrale in undated letter] that Harry Fielding quite doated upon his Sister Sally till she had made herself through ... Dr. ...Sarah Fielding Virgil Print: Book
1700-1799'I have heard Johnson say that there was no Series of Verses in any English Tragedy so sublime & striking as the passage in Congreve's Mourning Bride: beginning thus H...Samuel Johnson William CongreveMourning Bride, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have heard of nothing good in the literary way; but I read three volumes yesterday of the strangest, dullest, and most incomprehensible trash imaginable, two or three ...Matthew Lewis Mary Wells Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sumbel, Late Wells; o...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have heard that all the kept Mistresses read Pope's Eloisa with singular delight - 'tis a great Testimony to its Ingenuity; they are commonly very ignorant Women, & ca...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeEloisa to Abelard Print: Book
1700-1799'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so much did She delight in the Poetry of Dr Young - She ...Hester Lynch Thrale Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book


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