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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'"The Earl's Daughter" was also 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 sad, and I think it ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellLaneton parsonageManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 4th. May 1942.
M. Stevens in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read, pronounced rather more accurate ...		Roger Moore Knox TaylorLangdale, Easter 1942Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'January, 1819. 'Sunday -- Rose about 9. After reading Ricardo for some little time, I set ...George Grote Gotthold Ephraim LessingLaocoonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Laocoon'.George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingLaocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Po...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear and lively, the thoughts acute and pregnant. It is we...George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingLaocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Po...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to...William Wordsworth William WordsworthLaodamiaUnknown
1800-1849'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyLaon and CythnaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyLaon and CythnaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped yesterday evening into a Bookseller's shop with a s...William Wordsworth George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Republics". And she had read "Lara". Shakespeare alone po...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 20 August 1814: 'Lord Rosslyn read to us "Lara," Lord Byron's new tale. It strongly marks his manner of thinking and writing. It is a sort of conti...James Alexander, second Earl of Rosslyn George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Sept. 17th [...] Dine at 1/2 past six [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama. They [i.e. P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go to Bed at ten...Claire Clairmont George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and telling you so. The last Canto of it is much the bes...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the pass...George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the pass...George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the pass...George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the pass...Sir J. Malcolm George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the pass...George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849William Blackwood to John Murray, 8 November 1814: 'Since I was a little better [following illness] I have been again reading "Lara," and the delight it afforded me wa...William Blackwood George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book


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