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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
 
1800-1849Byron 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 in the cave at Seaham]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... A friend of mine (fifty years old & an author but not Rogers) ...[friend of Byron's, probably Dallas] anon Annabella Milbanke[poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 October 1812, on writing by Annabella Milbanke that she has forwarded to him: '... the specimen you send me is more favourable to her talents ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[biography]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 February 1814: 'In thanking you for your letter you will allow me to say that there is one sentence I do not understand ... I will copy it...George Gordon Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron in postscript of letter to Annabella Milbanke, 1 August 1814: 'I have read your letter once more -- and it appears to me that I must have said something which makes...George Gordon Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, early in their engagement, 19 September 1814: 'When your letter arrived my sister was sitting near me and grew frightened at the effect of it...George Gordon Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 23 September 1814: 'I am glad you liked Annabella [Milbanke]'s letter to you -- Augusta said that to me (the decisive one ) [ie accepting his mar...Augusta Leigh Annabella Milbanke[letter to Byron]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 16 October 1814: 'In arranging papers I have found the first letter you ever wrote to me -- read it again ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 31 July 1848:

'You will have seen some of the notices of "Wildfell Hall." I wish my sister felt the unfavo...		Charlotte Brontë Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell HallUnknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 31 July 1848:

'You will have seen some of the notices of "Wildfell Hall." I wish my sister felt the unfavo...		Charlotte Brontë Anne BrontëAgnes GreyUnknown
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1850-1899		Mary Robinson, author of an early study of Emily Bronte, to Charlotte Bronte's friend Ellen Nussey, 5 April 1882:

'I am an architect's daughter and like th...		Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Anne BrontëunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849"He [Mr Morrison] breeds horses, & the colts came up & talked to us, & his great kennelfulls of dogs who came to be patted & generally would easily become a tenant of Wil...Leslie Stephen Anne BronteTenant of Wildfell HallPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 12 April 1849: 'I read Anne's letter [of 5 April] to you; it was touching enough ...'Charlotte Bronte Anne Bronteletter to Ellen NusseyManuscript: Letter
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem...William Gallacher Anne Bronte[Unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison libra...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Anne Bronte[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[From Charlotte Bronte's introduction to the 1850 edition of her sisters' novels:] 'One day in the autumn of 1845 I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume in verse in my...Charlotte Bronte Anne BrontepoemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Letter, 22 November 1813]

'I have just been reading Anne Caldwell's play and am delighted with it.'		Jessie Allen Anne CaldwellUnknownUnknown
1900-1945'"I like books by Ruby M Ayres and Anne Duffield. The young lady usually chooses the books for me - she knows what I want. Something light to take my mind off the war - ...Anne DuffieldunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes of Mrs Grant's American Lady, which Southey lent to ...Dorothy Wordsworth Anne GrantMemoirs of an American LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points for the reader (Magdalene Erskine). Vol. 2 has a n...Magdalene Erskine Anne GrantLetters from the Mountains; being the real corresp...Print: Book


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