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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'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'Mary Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the accession of James I t...Print: Book
1800-1849'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'Mary Shelley Cicero[Second Oration]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. begins Hist of Engd'Percy Bysshe Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the accession of James I t...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1830: 'As you like epigrams, & are not likely to have met with one which I met with yesterday in the Times newspape...Elizabeth Barrett Latin epigraphPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 February 1830: 'Here is a paragraph about Bells which I copy from the Times [transcribes passage reporting first ringing of...Elizabeth Barrett report on change-ringingPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 8 September 1830: 'I have been reading lately with my brothers some of Racine's plays [...] It is several years since I read t...Elizabeth Barrett and younger Moulton-Barrett brothersJean Jacques RacineplaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 8 September 1830: 'I have been reading lately with my brothers some of Racine's plays [...] It is several years since I read t...Elizabeth Barrett Jean Jacques RacineplaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Elizabeth Barrett, c.1 October 1830: 'Papa read us out of the newspaper Emily Bayford's marriage, it took place on Tuesday [28 September]'....Edward Moulton-Barrett report of marriage of Emily Bayford and Charles Ge...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, to Elizabeth Barrett, c.4 October 1830: 'For the last three hours [Arabella, reader's sister] has done nothing but talk in the most nonsensi...Henrietta Moulton-Barrett unknownLife of NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 January 1831: 'You will lend me Phalaris (will you not?) at some future time -- -- i have read it [italics]once[end italics...Elizabeth Barrett Richard BentleyA Dissertation upon the Epistles of PhalarisPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Ann Lowry Boyd, c. April 1831: 'For the last week I have not been at all well, & indeed was obliged yesterday to go to bed after breakfast instead...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas MooreLetters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices o...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831: 'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Blackstone through, I also read a little treatise by a ...Elizabeth Barrett Sir William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831: 'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Blackstone through, I also read a little treatise by a ...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Hawkins'Reform of Parliament the Ruin of Parliament'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 15 November 1831: 'I have been reading an article in the Quarterly Review this morning [italics]about[end italics] the administr...Elizabeth Barrett 'Letter to the Lords' (article concerning Reform B...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 23 June 1827: 'I am glad Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] is so pleased with Irving's new book; I have not yet been able to read it ...anon IrvingprefacePrint: Book
1800-1849Arabella Graham-Clarke to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 14 Deecmber 1830: 'Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] read the last work of Sir Humphrey Davey "Consolation in travail" It is ...Elizabeth Barrett Sir Humphrey DavyConsolation in TravailPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham, 22 February 1853: 'I fear that the Government of the country is likely to become from such a strange mixture of things [described ...John Wilson Croker Benjamin Disraeli'Buckinghamshire speeches'Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 23 January 1837: 'I have read Coombs [sic] Phrenology [...] [It] is very clever, & amusing; but I do not think it logical or satis...Elizabeth Barrett George CombeElements of PhrenologyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 March 1832: 'When I had Payne Knight here, I took the trouble of counting the number of lines he has thought proper to leav...Elizabeth Barrett Homer Carmina HomericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 9 June 1832: 'I have been reading thro' the eight first chapters of Genesis in Hebrew [...] As I knew the character[s] or some...Elizabeth Barrett GenesisPrint: Book


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