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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
 
1900-1945'And a housewife, after reading it, says she is satisfied the she has done everything and knows everything that can be done in civil defence: "We've got enough, I mean, w...Ministry of Information invasion leafletPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possibility that you may be defendants in an imperial pla...Margaret Oliphant A.W. KinglakeInvasion of the CrimeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for your little book of innermost thoughts.[...] And you have proved your excellent humanity by the manner and matter of your essays.'Joseph Conrad Christopher MorleyInward Ho!Print: Book, Pamphlet
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 9 December 1835: 'Have you seen Serjeant Talfourd's new tragedy, the Ion [...] He has been kind & flattering enough to send...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Noon TalfourdIonUnknown
1800-1849'Thank you very much for the gift of "Ion"; the tragedy was known to us by extracts, and our desire to see it was great. We like it very much - it is a noble descendant o...Mary Howitt Thomas Noon TalfourdIonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'Mary Shelley EuripidesIonPrint: Book
1850-1899'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of "Richard the 3rd" and the scene with ...George Eliot [pseud] Euripides IphigeniaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Getting on with Iphigenia [in Aulide] I am very much interested in it ? particularly in the scene between Iphigenia & her father. How much simple affectionate nature th...Elizabeth Barrett Iphigenia in AulidePrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; th...Alfred Tennyson Euripides Iphigenia in AulisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.
    Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard ...		Muriel Stevens EuripidesIphigenia in TaurisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.
    Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard ...		Charles E. Stansfield EuripidesIphigenia in TaurisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219 King’s Rd 20. IV. 1939.
    Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Opening the subject of Euripides, F. E. Pollard ...		Francis E. Pollard EuripidesIphigenia in TaurisPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, December 2, 1831: "Dealing with Euripides. The Iphigenia in Tauris. Very inferior to the Iph: in Aulide, as far as I can read".Elizabeth Barrett Browning EuripidesIphigenia in TaurisPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, December 12, 1831: Finished the Iphigenia in Tauris – not worth re-reading! – and began the Hippolytus.Elizabeth Barrett Browning EuripidesIphigenia in TaurisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think "Ireland and its Leaders" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you though you call yourself solitary live much more in...Sydney Smith Daniel Owen-Madden [published anon.]Ireland and its Rulers Since 1829Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he afterwards solicited Mr Fleetwood, the patentee of Drur...Samuel Johnson Samuel JohnsonIreneManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he afterwards solicited Mr Fleetwood, the patentee of Drur...Peter Garrick Samuel JohnsonIreneManuscript: Unknown
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'When in good humour he would talk of his own writings with a wonderful frankness and candour, and would ...Samuel Johnson Samuel JohnsonIrenePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonIrene: A Historical TragedyPrint: Book
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens,...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonIrene: A Historical Tragedy Print: Book


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