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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'Read Oedipus Tyrannus'Mary Shelley SophoclesOedipus TyrannusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Oedipus Tyrannus'Mary Shelley SophoclesOedipus TyrannusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Villani'Mary Shelley Giovanni VillaniJohannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a...Print: Book
1800-1849'Dante's Vita Nuova'Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1800-1849'If you have not read Herschel in Lardners Cyclo ? read it directly.' Charles Darwin John Frederick William HerschelPreliminary discourse on the study of natural phil...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the vita nuova aloud to me in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1800-1849'All the while I am writing now my head is running about the Tropics: in the morning I go and gaze at Palm trees in the hot-house and come home and read Humboldt: my enth...Charles Darwin HumboldtunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I hope you continue to fan your Canary ardor: I read & reread Humboldt, do you do the same, & I am sure nothing will prevent us seeing the Great Dragon tree.' Charles Darwin HumboldtunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Lord Stanley to John Wilson Croker, 22 March 1851: 'There is at the moment an utter break up of all parties, except the Protectionists, who are, I hope, notwithstandin...Lord Stanley The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 January 1838: 'In my childish days & for some days afterwards I have read & re-read Miss Seward's Letters. They had a cha...Elizabeth Barrett Anna SewardLetters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years ...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 February 1838: 'I have just been reading Racine's "Letters," and Boileau's. How much one should like both, if it were not...Mary Russell Mitford Jean RacineLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 February 1838: 'I have just been reading Racine's "Letters," and Boileau's. How much one should like both, if it were not...Mary Russell Mitford Nicolas Boileau DespreauxLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. February 1838: 'I [italics]will[end italics] thank you for all the pleasure I have had in reading these poems -- so full of strong...Elizabeth Barrett John KenyonpoemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.26 February 1838: 'I saw the following advertisement in the Athenaeum of Saturday, & believing that it may interest you, do no...Elizabeth Barrett advertisement for rare antique BiblePrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. March 1838: 'Thank you for Alford's poems. There is much beauty in some of them -- but [italics]there is a want of abiding powe...Elizabeth Barrett Henry AlfordpoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838: '[To] satisfy some curiosity, [I] have been reading Garth's "Dispensary," a poem very worthy of its subject'.Elizabeth Barrett Samuel GarthThe Dispensary, a PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838: 'I have been reading the "Exile," from Marion Campbell, with much interest and delight'.Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell Mitford"The Exile"Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 April 1838: 'I had to thank [John Kenyon] for [...] lending me Mr Milnes's Poems just printed for private circulation. T...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Monckton MilnesMemorials of a Residence on the Continent, and His...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. June 1838: 'The opening stanzas of your poem would charm Criticism into silence, even if she had a little to say [goes on to discu...Elizabeth Barrett John Kenyon"The Greek Wife"Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Thomas Noon Talfourd to Elizabeth Barrett, 2 June 1838: 'Mr Serjt Talfourd presents his compliments to Miss Barrett and begs to express to her how much he is gratified...Thomas Noon Talfourd Elizabeth BarrettThe SeraphimPrint: Book


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