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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
 
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 5 July 1814: 'The Princess [of Wales] sent for me to read a letter that she had sent to the Speaker [re proposed increase to her allowance].'Mary Berry Princess of WalesLetter to the Speaker [?Parliamentary]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House 31st May 1941
R. D. L. Moore in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

[...]		Roger Moore Janet RawlingsLetter to the XII Book ClubManuscript: Letter
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 17 May 1799: 'I was much entertained by some letters which [Uvedale] Price showed me from Sr George Beaumont, Fox, and Knight, containing cri...Mary Berry Charles James Foxletter to Uvedale Price on series of playsManuscript: Letter
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warning sounded. I'll put down the reflections that oc...Virginia Woolf Benedict Nicolsonletter to Virginia WoolfManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Tell Lord Grey to read Bennet's pamphlet; it is a little long, but good and right in the main object. At the end is a very affecting letter from the Botany Bay Chaplain'...Sydney Smith Henry Grey BennetLetter to Viscount Sidmouth, Secretary of State fo...Print: Pamphlet
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 26 November 1813: "Two letters, one from **** [Lady Frances Webster] ... **** [Lady Frances]'s contained also a very ...George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Frances Wedderburn Websterletter with poemManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Wrote another chapter of my Life read a little in Gray's Letters [...] they are the best letters I have seen & I consider Burns very inferior [.]John Clare Thomas GrayLettersUnknown
1800-1849'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Chart...Thomas Frost Thomas Second Lord LytteltonLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary world. I have read the Life of Arnold of Rugby, who wa...Edward Fitzgerald Edmund BurkeLettersPrint: Book
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1850-1899		I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t...Edward Fitzgerald Horace WalpoleLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil enim malo quam et me mei similem esse, et illos sui...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'"I well remember the acute sorrow with which, by my own fire-side, I first perused Dr. Currie's Narrative, and some of the letters, particularly of those composed in the...William Wordsworth Robert BurnslettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'"In reading Lady Mary W Montagu's letters, whi[ch] we have had lately, I continually felt a want - I had not the least affection for her" D[orothy] W[ordsworth] to Lady ...Dorothy Wordsworth Lady Mary Wortley MontaguLettersUnknown
1800-1849My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat...John Cole CiceroLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816: 'Among many things at Milan, one pleased me particularly, viz. the correspondence ... of Lucretia Borgia wth Cardinal Bembo ... I ...George Gordon Lord Byron Cardinal; Lucretia Bembo; de BorgialettersManuscript: Letter, Unknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Read the letters ... Dined ...'George Gordon Lord Byron lettersManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 January 1821: '... the post arriving late, did not ride. Read letters ...'George Gordon Lord Byron lettersManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Reading Mrs Browning's published letters in 1900, Wilfrid Blunt was reminded of how much he admired her and her husband's poetry ...'Wilfrid Blunt Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLettersPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850, regarding possible publication of letters between herself and Robert Southey: 'I have now read them and feel...Charlotte Bronte Robert and Charlotte Southey and BrontelettersManuscript: Letter
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney Alexander PopeLettersPrint: Book


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