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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
 
1800-1849Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839: 'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one, "Beatrix", in the feuilleton of the "Siecle", day ...Euphrasia Fanny Haworth Honore de Balzac"Scenes"Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1839: 'At painful times, when composition is impossible & reading not [italics]enough[end italics], grammars & dict...Elizabeth Barrett John ParkhurstAn Hebrew and English LexiconPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1839: 'At painful times, when composition is impossible & reading not [italics]enough[end italics], grammars & dict...Elizabeth Barrett Samuel LeeA Grammar of the Hebrew LanguagePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 May 1839: 'I am glad you have looked at Cheveley. [italics]Now[end italics] I can confess with one blush less that I hav...Elizabeth Barrett Rosina, Lady Bulwer-LyttonCheveley, or the Man of HonourPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 4 June 1839: ''[Dr Barry] has been lending me his friend & patient Dr Cummings book, to read -- "Wanderings in search ...Elizabeth Barrett William Fullerton Cumming, M.D.Notes of a Wanderer in Search of Health, Through I...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 June 1839: 'I mean to make an extract of your legal admirations and send them to my brother George who begins his circuit...George Goodin Moulton-Barrett Sir Edward CokeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1839: 'I do not know whether Miss Garrow does or does not write ballads [...] I have seen no writing of her's exce...Elizabeth Barrett Theodosia Garrowstanzas on the death of Letitia Elizabeth LandonManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 13-14 July 1839: 'I told [Mr Naylor] [...] that the gift of his book was the more gratifying to me as coming from a fr...Elizabeth Barrett Samuel NaylorCeracchi, a Drama and other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 August 1839: 'I a personally quite unacquainted with Mr Horne [...] Have you not heard of his Cosimo de' Medici? He is ...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Hengist HornepoemsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839: 'I have read Mr Chorley's Lion [...] it is a work highly indicative of ability [...] brilliant with allusi...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Fothergill ChorleyThe Lion, a Tale of the CoteriesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839: 'Mr Chorley's Sea port town was brought to me a little while ago -- but not as Mr Chorley's. Henrietta [s...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Fothergill ChorleySketches of a Sea Port TownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, md-August 1839: 'I was too tired upon my return from the [italics]voyage[end italics] [water excursion] yesterday, to do more ...Elizabeth Barrett anon Two Old Men's Tales: The Deformed, and The Admiral...Print: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, 16 September 1839: 'Wish "Paracelsus" luck, by the way, at the Great St Leger -- for he, a horse, starts, I see by this m...Robert Browning racing programmePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1839: 'I have lately held within my hands Miss Eliza Cook's poems [...] [comments upon book's introduction and...Elizabeth Barrett Eliza CookMelaia, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 January 1840: '[Mary Hunter] was brought up a dissenter among dissenters, & amused herself one day when she & I were to...Mary Hunter Church of England catechismPrint: Book
1800-1849'Judging from the Pamphlet, you gave me & which I have found very useful, the insects of the Rio Plata are tolerably well-known.'Charles Darwin Jean Theodore LacordaireM?moire sur les habitudes des Col?opt?res de l'Am?...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'This unfortunate O'Meara, It was the merest chance he was not sent to extend his localities in the Highlands. I would have returned the book immediately, finding how lo...Jane Baillie Welsh Barry Edward O'MearaNapoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St HelenaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I liked Milman's books better than your scanty recommendation led me to expect- The gentleman is certainly a poet - he excells in description - the outlines of his pictu...Jane Baillie Welsh Henry Hart MilmanSamor, the Lord of the Bright CityPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the 'bright city' and rejoiced to find your criticism of it so agreeable to my own. Milman is certainly a poet, but he takes a flight higher than he can sus...Thomas Carlyle Henry Hart MilmanSamor, the Lord of the Bright CityPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am now reading the Oxford Report.'Charles Darwin The Report of the second meeting of the British As...Print: Unknown


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