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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'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind w...George Crabbe Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end italics] with "Marmion", but I was prisoner with so sev...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I quite agree with you about Leonidas &c. I have greatly enjoyed finding myself a child again over Macaulay's 'Lays'. Castor & Pollux really took away my breath. How ...Harriet Martineau Thomas Babington MacaulayLays of Ancient RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Macaulay's Lays? they are very much liked. I have read some but I abor all Grecian and Roman subjects'.Sydney Smith Thomas Babington MacaulayLays of Ancient RomePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 October 1843: 'I very much admire Mr Macaulay -- & could scarcely read his ballads & keep lying down. They se...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Babington MacaulayLays of Ancient RomePrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 December 1842: 'The only novelty we have had in books as yet, has been Macaulay's Lays of Rome -- a kind of revenge on that lite...Robert Browning Thomas Babington MacaulayLays of Ancient Rome (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
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1850-1899		H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome given to him in 1848, "when Raven wa...John James Raven Thomas Babington MacaulayLays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada"Print: Book
1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'A most singular book of Eugene Sue's [sic] I have read lately, the whole front of which is directed against ...Elizabeth Barrett Frederic SoulieLe BananierPrint: Book
1850-1899'Debans, the Dead Man's Shoes fellow has also disgraced himself in a work entitled Baron John.'Robert Louis Stevenson Camille DebansLe Baron Jean (Baron John)Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histo...Mary Russell Mitford Alexandre Dumas and Auguste MaquetLe Batard de MauleonPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Some marginal notes in French throughout. Given by the author to Vernon Lee.Vernon Lee Julien BendaLe Bergsonisme ou une Philosophie de la MobilitPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Voltaire (pseud.)Le Bible enfin explique
1900-1945'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Francophile complex. I have not yet had time to comp...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLe Blois VertPrint: Book
1800-1849"Under his instruction - while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and Moliere's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' - I caught hold of such good French pron...Thomas Cooper MoliereLe Bourgeois GentilhommePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two ...Claire Clairmont MoliereLe Bourgeois GentilhommePrint: Book
'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these ve...Susanna Arabella Thrale Moliere [pseud.]Le Bourgeois gentilhommePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have had a day of open air; only a little modified by Le Capitaine Fracasse before the dining room fire.'Robert Louis Stevenson Theophile GautierLe Capitaine FracassePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille'Mary Shelley Pierre CorneilleLe CidPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an end of Mr Boyl's book of Formes, which I am glad to h...William Battelier [unknown]Le commerce honourable ou Considerations Politique...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1845: 'Have you seen the "Compagnon du tour de France" by George Sand? I sent for it, with a fancy that it might be ...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLe Compagnon du Tour de FrancePrint: Book


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