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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 read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese stories in it the one is very curious & amusing about ...Lady Caroline Lamb unknownShadows in the WaterPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese stories in it the one is very curious & amusing about ...Lady Caroline Lamb unknown[chinese story]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Y]ou interested me very much about Coleridge--I wish I had ever known him--his translation of Wallenstein is in my opinion perfectly beautiful'.Lady Caroline Lamb Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWallensteinPrint: Book
1800-1849'[A]sk Ld M[orpeth] to read you the lost Peri & see the lines about the boy kneeling & the man of crime are not passing beautiful read it too with your heart and not with...Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
1800-1849'[W]ould to God I had been an Adam Blair & not a Mrs Campbell [...] I am only miserable--because I dare not die--and like Adam Blair cannot say my prayers'.Lady Caroline Lamb J.G. LockhartSome Passages is the Life of Mr. Adam BlairPrint: Book
1800-1849'"drudge like Selden days & nights And in the Endless labour die"'.Lady Caroline Lamb Richard BentleyA Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of O...Print: Book
1800-1849'[T]he few men who are about me are all eager to get yr books but what has vexd me is that the 2 children & 4 young Women to whom I endeavoured to read them did not chuse...Lady Caroline Lamb William GodwinunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I told Murray to tell you that I read his journal with sorrow & perhaps with anger'.Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord Byron[Memoirs]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.Augusta Leigh Lady Caroline Lamb[letters and verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.Lady Annabella Byron (n?e Milbanke) Lady Caroline Lamb[letters and verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read the Excursion & Madoc.'Mary Godwin William WordsworthThe Excursion, Being a portion of the Recluse, a p...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Read the Excursion & Madoc.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyMadoc: a poemPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'M Read Madoc all morning.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyMadoc: a poemPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'He [Percy Bysshe Shelley] reads the curse of Kehama to us in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'She [Mary] reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock who dines.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Mary reads greek & Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls.'Mary Godwin Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'M reads the Sorcerer & Shelley writes his Romance.'Mary Godwin Veit WeberDie Teufelsbeschworung / The SorcererPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Mary reads Political Justice all the morning'.Mary Godwin William GodwinAn enquiry concerning political justice and its in...Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening Shelley reads Thaliba aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert SoutheyThalaba the DestroyerPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'What a Contretems [sic]! in the language of France; What an unluckiness! in that of Mde Duval.'Jane Austen Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book


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