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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'Did [Benjamin Bell] write these verses? If so, he seems young at the art like us, but not without powers of doing better; dactyls are always difficult to manage, and hi...Thomas Carlyle Charles Hughes TerotPoemsManuscript: Sheet, Poems included in letter from Jane Baillie Welsh to TC
1800-1849'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long passage from Campbell's Poems, entitled "The Wizard...Samuel Smiles John HomeDouglasPrint: Book
1800-1849'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long passage from Campbell's Poems, entitled "The Wizard...Samuel Smiles CampbellThe Wizard's WarningPrint: Book
1800-1849'I remember, when a little boy, getting my first introduction to the novels of Walter Scott - then the "Great Unknown". One of my sisters, when an infant, was sent to the...Samuel Smiles Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1840: '[Dr Scully (physician attending Barrett)] brought me a book last week, a catalogue raisonne of Dr Parr's Libra...Elizabeth Barrett Catalogue of library of Samuel ParrPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late avatars? "Preferment", with an undeniable clevern...Elizabeth Barrett Catherine GorePreferment: or, My Uncle the EarlPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late avatars? "Preferment", with an undeniable clevern...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeOne Fault. A NovelPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Did you ever meet with an account partly translated partly composed by Miss Schimmelpenninck, of the P...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Ann SchimmelpenninckSelect Memoirs of Port RoyalPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 January 1840: 'I have been reading "Jack Sheppard," and have been struck by the great danger, in these times, of represen...Mary Russell Mitford William Harrison AinsworthJack Sheppard: A RomancePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Septimus Moulton-Barrett, 6 February 1840: ''Tell [Papa] too what I forgot to tell, that I have finished Shelley's volumes which, if it were not f...Elizabeth Barrett Percy Bysshe ShelleyEssays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Frag...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, mid-February 1840: 'Did you ever hear how poor Mr Reade has compromised himself with Fraser .. in the magazine? [...] how ...Elizabeth Barrett Review of William Reade's poems Italy and The Delu...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 February 1840: 'I never received Mr Merry's book until a very few days since. Wasn't it too bad of my dear people in W...Elizabeth Barrett William MerryThe Philosophy of a Happy Futurity est. on the Sur...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 3 March 1840: 'I had a kind message from Captain Marryat once [...] but I have never seen him. Without being one of his ind...Mary Russell Mitford Captain Frederick Marryat, R.N.novelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 March 1840: 'I cant agree about the Legend, I read the whole of it - & although your remark upon the versification seems...Elizabeth Barrett Leigh HuntA Legend of FlorencePrint: Book
1800-1849Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, c.18 March 1840: 'Three days have nearly slipped by me since I received your poem [Sordello] [...] You much overrate my judg...Walter Savage Landor Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 March 1840: 'I [italics]have[end italics] Sylvia or the May Queen among my books in London. Dont you remember telling ...Elizabeth Barrett George DarleySylvia; or, The May QueenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Byron's Magazine or rather Hunt's 'The Liberal' is arrived in town; but they will not sell it - it is so full of Atheism and Radicalism and other noxious isms. I had a ...Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)The LiberalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have just this instant finished the O'Meara - and have no time to write. You quite distress me by sending me so many books-'Jane Baillie Welsh Barry Edward O'MearaNapoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from Saint-HelenaPrint: Book, Volume 2 of 2Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Have you seen Dr Ures notice of Leslie's Meteorology, in Brande's Journal? Some one shewed it to me and it seemed a very unpalatable morsel: I know not whether you will...Thomas Carlyle Andrew UreReview of 'Description of Instruments, Designed fo...Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Till lately I have never read Spenser, and therefore was not personally acquainted with his beauties. Neither do I mean to say now that I have read his "Fairie Queen"; b...Emily Shore Edmund Spenser'Hymn of Heavenly Beautie'Print: Book


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