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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
 
1700-1799'[Lord Lyttleton] presented me with the works of Miss Aikin (now Mrs Barbauld). I read them with rapture; I thought them the most beautiful Poems I had ever seen, and con...Mary Robinson Anna Laetitia AikinPoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:] 'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, except a little volume of very pretty Essays by Miss Aiki...Elizabeth Carter Anna Laetitia AikinEssays [?on Various Subjects]Print: Book
1800-1849'I suppose you shared the benefit, so common, thank God! in our generation, - of an early, & thorough familiarity with Mrs Barbauld's Prose Hymns. I know no book influen...Harriet Martineau Anna Laetitia BarbauldHymns in Prose for ChildrenPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading over Mrs Barbaulds "Lessons for Childern" to my eldest child who is continually tearing me to read them I find by this that they are particularly sui...John Clare Anna Laetitia BarbauldLessons for Children from Two to Three Years OldPrint: Book
1800-1849From Letter V, "Letters on Daily Life": 'I wonder whether you ever met with an old-fashioned story called "Eyes and no Eyes." It was written, I think, by Mrs. Barbauld....Elizabeth Missing Sewell Anna Laetitia Barbauld'Eyes, and No Eyes; or, The Art of Seeing'Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Life of Voltaire - & Evenings at home'Mary Shelley Anna Laetitia BarbauldEvenings at Home; or the Juvenile Budget OpenedPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Qu...Robert Southey Anna Laetitia BarbauldOde to SpringPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845: 'I do not know Charlotte Smith's books for children. I read myself Mrs. Barbauld's '"Come hither Char...Elizabeth Barrett Anna Laetitia BarbauldLessons for Children, From Two to Three Years OldPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 25 July 1779:] 'I do not wonder you were struck by Mrs Barbauld's Hymns. They are all excellent, but there are some passages amaz...Elizabeth Carter Anna Laetitia BarbauldHymnsUnknown
1700-1799'Another book which thus came in my way was Mrs Barbauld's "Hymns for Children" which I soon perceived to be exactly suited both to my taste and my capacity. Here I met w...Thomas Carter Anna Letitia BarbauldHymns in Prose for ChildrenPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Mrs Barbauld has written some lines to Coleridge advising him to abandon metaphysics. the poem is not...Robert Southey Anna Letitia Barbauld‘To S. T. Coleridge, 1797’Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The first books which are now usually put into the hands of a child are Mrs. Barbauld's "Lessons"; they are by far the best books of the kind that have ever appeared.' (...Maria Edgeworth Anna Letitia Barbauld (nee Aikin)Early Lessons for ChildrenPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'Mary is deep in the 2nd volume of the "Recluse of Norway" by Miss Porter - there is a wonderful cleverness in th...Mary Wordsworth Anna Maria PorterRecluse of Norway, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'Mary is deep in the 2nd volume of the "Recluse of Norway" by Miss Porter - there is a wonderful cleverness in th...Dorothy Wordsworth Anna Maria PorterRecluse of Norway, ThePrint: Book
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1800-1849		Lake of Killarney, by A.M. Porter. 3 vols. Rose de Blaguere, a foundling, is the heroine of the tale. Mr Clermont the hero. Mr O'Neil and his maiden sister bring up Rose...Ellen Weeton Anna Maria PorterLake of KillarneyPrint: Book
1800-1849'While I write now, George is most industriously making and naming paper ships, at which he afterwards shoots with horse-chestnuts, brought from Steventon on purpose; and...Edward Knight Anna Maria PorterLake of KillarneyPrint: Book
1800-1849'A Vision The Night-Mare came to my silent bed... Miss Porter'Bowly groupAnna Maria PorterA VisionUnknown
1800-1849'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The Village of Mariendorpt, full of the most touching p...Sarah Harriet Burney Anna Maria PorterVillage of Mariendorpt, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'When Miss Porter's Don Sebastian came out, I expected to find the Margravine, Keppel Craven, (with whom the fair authoress was in love,) and many of my other friends the...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Anna Maria PorterDon Sebastian Or The House Of BraganzaPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the lines on Dermody so much that I wish they were in r...George Gordon, Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[lines on Dermody]Manuscript: Unknown


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