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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?I have some idea of writing in the intervals of my severer studies for professional education, a comedy for my father?s birthday, but I shall do it up in my own room, an...Maria Edgeworth Charles Robert DallasHistory of the Maroons, from their origin to the e...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre: 'Sir -- Mr. Lamb -- (one of my colleagues in the S...George Gordon Lord Byron Charles Robert MaturinBertramManuscript: Unknown
Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre: 'Sir -- Mr. Lamb -- (one of my colleagues in the S...George Lamb Charles Robert MaturinBertramManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Manuel -- out of contradiction it may be -- he likes th...Matthew Gregory Lewis Charles Robert MaturinManuelUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird, 15 May 1819: 'Three years & some months ago when you were reding [sic] "Bertram" at your brother's -- on my exclaiming in the words o...Charles 8th Lord Kinnaird Charles Robert MaturinBertramUnknown
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's annotations, at owners' requests, of copies of Barry Cornwall, Dramatic Scenes, and Charles Tennyson Turner, Sonnets and Fugitive Pi...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles Tennyson TurnerSonnets and Fugitive PiecesPrint: Book
1900-1945Some marginal annotation in pencil in English on the following pages only: 256, 265-6, 274.Vernon Lee Charles W. FergusonThe Confusion of Tongues: a review of modernismsPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have also begun Lyell['s ''Life'']. The scrap of autobiography is pleasant.'Emma Darwin Charles, Sir LyellLife, Letters and JournalsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delig...Henry James Charles-Augustin Saint-BeuveunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I have finished ... St Beuve's review of ''Mme d'Epinay's Memoirs'', in which he entirely ignores the horrible indecencies, which I call very immoral.'Emma Darwin Charles-Augustin Sainte- BeuveReview of Mme Epinay's MemoirsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899[Letter] 'I am taking to some of the St Beuve ''Causeries'', and find them very pleasant, especially anything about the time of Louis XIV always amuses me...'Emma Darwin Charles-Augustin Sainte-BeuveCauseries du lundi (Monday Chats)Print: Book, Newspaper
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the next week: that his respect for my little observati...Samuel Johnson Charles-Jean-François Henault[history]Print: Book
1800-1849?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend to you as a book you will admire, because it furnishe...Maria Edgeworth Charles-Louis MontesquieuCauses de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decad...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, from Eastnor Castle, 23-24 February 1827: 'As we were going down the stairs yesterday Lady M. said to me -- "I am reading...Lady Margaret Maria Cocks Charlotte AnleyMiriam; Or, the Power of TruthPrint: Book
1800-1849'The story of Julia and the daisies is beautiful - I read it to MF, (my father) and he liked it much'Sarah Harriet Burney Charlotte Barrett[a letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'very powerful & interesting, in parts very fine, not altogether pleasing — some striking delineation of character; it is said to be by a woman, but it is not femin...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'a greater mixture of very good & very bad that I remember to have read — great occasional beauty of thought & language, greater still in the delineation of charact...G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Charlotte BrontëVilettePrint: Book
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1850-1899		From Andrew Lang, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (Vol II, pp.307-309):

'"Kingsley, in a letter to Mrs Gaskell, rejoices that he had never expre...		Charles Kingsley Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Taylor to her friend and former schoolfellow Charlotte Bronte, in letter postmarked 24 July 1848:

'About a month since I received and read "Jane Eyre." ...		Mary Taylor Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
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1850-1899		Algernon Charles Swinburne to Sir T. Wemyss Reid, in response to Reid's Charlotte Bronte: A Monograph, 24 September 1877:

'I need not say how grateful I shou...		Algernon Charles Swinburne Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book


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