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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
 
1800-1849Felicia 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 WordsworthsonnetsUnknown
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to a new friend in Dublin, early 1831: 'Some "Quarterly Reviews" have lately been sent to me, one of which contains an article on Byron, by which I have be...Felicia Hemans John Gibson LockhartReview of Thomas Moore's Life of ByronPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to John Lodge, July 1831, on visit to Woodstock, Ireland: 'Amongst other persons of the party was Mr Henry Tighe, the widower of the poetess [Mary Tighe]. ...Henry Tighe Felicia Hemans"The Graves of a Household"Unknown
1800-1849Thomas Medwin, in his memoir of Shelley: 'In the beginning of [1808] I showed Shelley some poems to which I had subscribed by Felicia Browne [...] Her juvenile production...Percy Bysshe Shelley Felicia Browne [later Hemans]PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Felicia Hemans, 11 May 1827: 'Yesterday your American volume from the Author was put into my hands, and dipping into it here & there without cutting the...Joanna Baillie Felicia HemansAmerican edition comprising two collections of poe...Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and Songs for Music": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in m...William Wordsworth Felicia Hemansuncollected poemsUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and Songs for Music": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in m...William Wordsworth Felicia HemansNational Lyrics and Songs for MusicPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and Songs for Music": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in m...William Wordsworth Felicia Hemans"Pilgrim's Song to the Evening Star"Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he was the dedicatee: 'This morning I have read the stanz...William Wordsworth Felicia HemansScenes and Hymns of Life &cPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he was the dedicatee: 'This morning I have read the stanz...William Wordsworth Felicia Hemans"Elysium"Print: Book
1800-1849Henry Chorley, in Memorials of Mrs Hemans (1836): 'after having heard those beautiful stanzas addressed to his sister [composed August 1816] by Lord Byron -- which afterw...Felicia Hemans George Gordon, Lord ByronStanzas ("My Sister -- my sweet Sister")Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read the rights of Woman, am become a convert think dissipation great folly & shall remain the whole year discreetly & quietly in the Country.'Caroline Lamb Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'[L]ittle else travels down to me my Cousins & Virtuous friends not being over addicted to scribbling--do not think I put you in the other class [...] it is only an appel...Lady Caroline Lamb Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read the new Testament in Greek with great success & am edified with the slow but sure progress I make in that language you cannot think how learned I should grow did ...Lady Caroline Lamb [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Clarissa Harlowe is just dead & I really am so much discomposed at it & at Lovelaces grief to whom I do not think she behaved quite handsomely that I can prate no m...Lady Caroline Lamb Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Childe Harold I have read your Book & cannot refrain from telling you that I think it & all those whom I live with & whose opinions are far more worth having--think it ...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'"perchance my dog will whine in vain "Till fed my stranger hands-- "But long e'er I come back again "he'd tear me where he stands'Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pretend to any thing that is the least [particle?] of ...Lady Caroline Lamb Maria EdgeworthPatronage [probably]Print: Book
1800-1849'"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always better avoided--I think the Bride of Abydos full of th...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBride of AbydosPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always better avoided--I think the Bride of Abydos full of th...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book, Unknown


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