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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 Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer'Mary Shelley Edmund SpenserFowre HymnesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer'Mary Shelley Edmund SpenserEpithalamionPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads to me Spencer's Virgil's Gnat'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund Spenser'Virgil's Gnat'Print: Book
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
1800-1849'This evening I read Spenser's poem called 'Mother Hubbard's Tale', a very long one. It is evidently a satire on the court and clergy, and a very bitter one too.' [Editor...Emily Shore Edmund Spenser'Mother Hubbard's Tale'Print: Book
1800-1849'I read Spenser these some mornings, while eating my breakfast. He is a dainty little fellow, as ever you saw: I propose that you and he shall be closely acquainted by a...Thomas Carlyle Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'Just now I opened Spencer, and the first Lines I saw were these.- "The noble Heart that harbors vertuous thought, And is with Child of glorious great intent, Can neve...John Keats Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 23 January 1935: 'I am reading the Faery Queen [sic] -- with delight. I shall write about it.'Virginia Woolf Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room re...Alfred Tennyson Edmund Spenser Print: Book
1900-1945'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working on the "Faerie Queene", at least ten Shakespeare pla...Wilfred Owen Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'[James Mathias was on summer vacation and] when he came back my Father asked him what Books he had read - I read says he a strange Account of a Beast which however is de...James Mathias Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Nobody reads Spenser's Pastorals, and they are exquisitely pretty; the Story in his February of the Oak and the Breere, and the other in his May of the Fox and the Kid a...Hester Lynch Thrale Edmund SpenserShepheardes Calendar, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde Edmund SpenserPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little "Faery Queene" also, but it is heavy, though with sweet lines occasionally.'John Ruskin Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.Charles Stansfield Edmund SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.Florence Reynolds Edmund SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.Elizabeth Edminson Edmund SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.Henry Marriage Wallis Edmund SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:] 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which, upon my first reading it, appeared to be publish...Thomas Edwards Edmund Spenser?The Works of Mr Edmund SpenserPrint: Book
1700-1799Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751: 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which, upon my first reading it, appeared to be published...Thomas Edwards Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book


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