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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I had been reading some story of Mrs. Sherwood's, whic...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 20 June 1845: 'The Meyricks have been here today. Mr. Meyrick told Edwards [Sewell's brother] there was no doubt that Newman ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John Henry NewmanObedience, the remedy for religious perplexityPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "The Cottager's Monthly Visitor" in 1840): 'I did not ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her mother's admiration for her writings: 'After my father's death, the only reading, except the Bible, which, for weeks, she would listen...Jane Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her mother's admiration for her writings: 'After my father's death, the only reading, except the Bible, which, for weeks, she would listen t...Jane Sewell The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her family's encouragement of her writing: 'William [Sewell's brother] had arranged to have the "Stories from the Lord's Prayer" publish...William Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellThe Earl's DaughterManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellMargaret PercivalUnknown
1800-1849'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellLaneton ParsonageManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cliffs of St. Lawrence. Mr. Edgar Estcourt [...] talked...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknownArticle on the JesuitsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cliffs of St. Lawrence. Mr. Edgar Estcourt [...] talked...Elizabeth Missing Sewell The Oxford and Cambridge ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, September 1846: 'We went into London one day [...] Burns's is a dull shop decidedly. You see the same books time after time [...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Cecilia TilleyChollertonPrint: Book
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846: 'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics]Tales on the Game Laws[end italics] I began, but th...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Harriet MartineauTales on the Game LawsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 31 December 1846: 'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Aliso...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Alisonaccounts of Napoleon's battlesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I had also to go this morning and read some old black-letter poems in the Advocates' Library: and the stomach, like a true British subject, is rebelling not a little aga...Thomas Carlyle unknown["black-letter poems"]Print: Book
1800-1849'Now that you have finished Rollin, I think you ought to begin some other book on general literature, directed if possible like it, in some degree to the progress of your...John A. Carlyle Charles RollinHistoire ancienne des Egyptiennes, des Carthaginoi...Print: Book
1800-1849'I return the first two volumes of Julia with many thanks - It seems to me, that the most proper way of testifying my gratitude to the amiable Jean Jacques for the pleasu...Jane Bailie Welsh Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloquent history of Faust - For it too I thank you. It h...Jane Bailie Welsh Unknown[Tragedies]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloquent history of Faust - For it too I think you. It h...Jane Bailie Welsh Thomas CarlyleCriticism on Faust (working title)Manuscript: Sheet, Draft of essay due to be published in the Review


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