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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"Now it was translating Tacitus, in order to try what was the utmost compression of style that I could attain.".."I went into such an enthusiasm over the original, and es...Harriet Martineau Dr AitkinTranslation of the Agricola of TacitusPrint: Book
1800-1849?for Hamlet & the trifling of his favour Hold it a fashion and a Toy in blood; A violet in the youth of primy nature Forward not permanent ? sweet not lasting The per...Lady Caroline Lamb William ShakespeareHamletUnknown
1800-1849'[I] could not like the "Paradise of Coquettes"'.Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas BrownParadise of CoquettesUnknown
1800-1849'Twould make a Paradise of Hell-- & fill even Heaven itself with woe[...]'Lady Caroline Lamb John MiltonParadise LostUnknown
1800-1849?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brown himself as a Modern Tom Jones ? It certainly canno...Lady Caroline Lamb Sir Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brown himself as a Modern Tom Jones ? It certainly canno...Lady Caroline Lamb Sir Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849?[N]ow that the Newspaper is so interesting it is difficult to read at all'Lady Caroline Lamb [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849?Dear Sir, if you had condescended to write a few lines with these copy Books I should have had greater pleasure in reading them at present I cannot even guess what they...Lady Caroline Lamb [unknown][copy books]Manuscript: Copy Books
1800-1849'do you ever read the Augustan Review it is stupid though[underlined] it thinks me so - & yet be afraid I like it because it takes[?] the thing [Glenarvon] fairly & not a...Lady Caroline Lamb [unknown]Review of Glenarvon in the Augustan ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Dear Lord Byron? I must thank you for yr. Poem you have sent me I [this word is illegible] not say how good I think it is [?]'Lady Sarah Jersey George Gordon, Lord Byron[poem]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I received the Books, & among them the Bride of Abydos. It is very, very beautiful.'George Canning George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Bride of AbydosPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 15 September 1819: 'Thank you for the perusal of the letter; it is not very good, but it will vex these old women of British criti...John Wilson Croker George Gordon, Lord Byron'Letter to the Editor of My Grandmother's Review'Unknown
1800-1849[transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Crabbe Minutely trace Man?s life; year after year, Through all his days let all his deeds appear And then though some may ...Lady Caroline Lamb George CrabbeTale II, 'The Parting Hour'Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 September 1842: 'Will Mrs Partridge receive the expression of my earnest thoughts for her happiness? [...] But I never ...Elizabeth Barrett report of reprieve of condemned criminal Elizabeth...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849[transcribed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'If guardian Powers preside above Who still extend to virtuous Love A tutelary care The Virgins bosom?s earl...Lady Caroline Lamb William Robert SpencerUraniaUnknown
1800-1849[Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?["]The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today Had he thy ['thy' is underlined] reason would he skip & play Pleas?d to the last he cr...Lady Caroline Lamb Alexander PopeAn Essay on Man, Epistle IUnknown
1800-1849[Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Nature & Art There is a word in the vocabulary more bitter, more direful in its import than all the rest?if poverty if bodil...Lady Caroline Lamb Elizabeth InchbaldNature and ArtUnknown
1800-1849[transcribed in what appears to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'With modest sidelong look and downcase glance / Behold the well matched couple now advance / His hand held he...Lady Caroline Lamb Richard Brinsley Sheridan'The Walse' also entitled 'The Waltz'Unknown
1800-1849[transcription of Moore's poem 'Gazel' in what seems to be Lady Caroline's Hand]Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas Moore'Gazel'Unknown
1800-1849[transcibed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'What is Majesty without its externals?-- / by Burke'Lady Caroline Lamb Edmund Burke[unknown]Unknown


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