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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 got your beautiful book of Ballads the other day at Moxon's. It contains (as far as I have seen it) much that is sweet and good and reminds me of you.'Alfred Tennyson Mary HewittBallads and other poemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'His Irish book seems to me from the little I have read very clever.'Alfred Tennyson Aubrey de VereEnglish Misdeeds and Irish MisrulePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read part of Oedipus Coloneus [title underlined].'Alfred Tennyson Sophocles (?)Oedipus Coloneus [sic]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished reading Fathom [underlined].'Alfred Tennyson Tobias SmollettFerdinand Count FathomPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think my introduction to the authoress of that fine book Mary Barton must be postponed.'Alfred Tennyson Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I now thank you very much for your able inauguration essay on Architecture and live in expectation of its successors.'Alfred Tennyson Coventry PatmoreThe aesthetics of gothic architecturePrint: Book
1800-1849'There, I flatter myself I have constructed you a Smartish Letter, considering my want of Materials. But like my dear Dr Johnson I beleive [sic] I have dealt more in Noti...Jane Austen Samuel JohnsonLetter to Boswell, 4 July 1774Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after...Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas NewtonDissertations of the Prophecies with the BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after...Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas SherlockSermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after...Lady Caroline Lamb David HumeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after...Lady Caroline Lamb William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [William Lamb] grew so out of spirits that he quite cried--as women do & has just recovered his spirites--however they are returned as usual for he is reading a Greek...William Lamb unknown[a Greek play]Unknown
1800-1849'How pretty I think your verses they express so exactly what I felt but could not find words to speak [...]'Lady Caroline Lamb Lady Georgiana MorpethunknownManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti Che ancor d'preggi tuoi parla sovente Lodando ora il bel crine, ora il ridente Tuo labbro ed ora i saggi detti onesti'Lady Caroline Lamb Faustina Maratti ZappiDonna che tanto al mio bel sol piacestiUnknown
1800-1849'I have really been so occupied with the sorrows of Mary Queen of Scots you must excuse my not have written before. I had always read the other side except in Hume, & wa...Lady Caroline Lamb William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have also read the Modern Philosophers, which in spight [sic] of a little vulgarity & too much sameness, I like extremely. Julia's character is beautiful & tho' Harri...Lady Caroline Lamb Elizabeth HamiltonMemoirs of Modern PhilosophersPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have all been reading le Siege de la Rochelle. As I leave others to make their own remarks, I shall only tell you my own opinion, which is, that though I think it al...Lady Caroline Lamb Stephanie de GenlisLe Siege de la Rochelle, ou le malheur et la consc...Print: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to...William Wordsworth Edmund SpenserunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to...William Wordsworth William WordsworthLaodamiaUnknown
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to...William Wordsworth William WordsworthLines. Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, ...Unknown


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