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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'I assure you, Dear Friend, that I did not read even one line of Signor Hunt's book until it was already published - in fact I didn't have the slightest idea of what it w...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntLord Byron and Some of his ContemporariesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 ...Mary Shelley Madame de GenlisMemoires inedits de madame la comtesse de GenlisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 ...Mary Shelley Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Merimee's] book has arrived yesterday. I have only begun reading it.' [letter to Venceslas-Victor Jacquemont]Mary Shelley Prosper MerimeeLa JacqueriePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am obliged to you for the books you were good enough to send me - Mr Crokers Volume was quite to my purpose' [letter to John Murray]Mary Shelley Thomas Crofton CrokerFairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Irela...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am very much obliged to you for the books - I still keep the O'Hara Tales, not having quite finished them - I certainly exonerate the Anglo Irish from the charge of im...Mary Shelley John BanimTales by the O'Hara FamilyPrint: Book
1800-1849'With many thanks I return your books -The Man of two Lives is founded on a good idea - treated to a great degree happily - yet it strikes me to be a translation - the ph...Mary Shelley James BoadenMan of Two Lives, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Permit me to ask you to lend me for a few days Washington Irving's last exquisitely written and interesting work - the Conquest of Granada - I want to consult it, and ha...Mary Shelley Washington IrvingConquest of Granada, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not forgotten nor neglected my task - but M. Beyle's book is so trite so unentertaining - so [underlined]very[end underlining] commonplace that I have found it qu...Mary Shelley Stendhal [pseud.]Promenades dans RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read since I got Lord Byron's life - I have no pretensions to being a critic - yet I know infin...Mary Shelley Thomas MooreLife of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'I saw my Father today who is quite delighted with Mr Moore's book - indeed who is not? - He thinks the whole sets Lord Byron in the light he best deserves - Generous ope...William Godwin Thomas MooreLife of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Cloudesley - the interest is inexpressibly absorbing - there is a truth and majesty in the delineation of the passions, and a simplicity and grace i...Mary Shelley William GodwinCloudesleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which she excells - [underlined] Reality [end underlining...Mary Shelley Laetitia Elizabeth LandonRomance and RealityPrint: Book
1800-1849'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which she excells - [underlined] Reality [end underlining...Mary Shelley William Johnson NealeCavendish; or, the Patrician at SeaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I will return Cavendish in a few days - It is very clever - but the beginning is best - & it is immoral - why [wr]ite about certain things; it is bad enough that they ar...Mary Shelley William Johnson NealeCavendish; or, the Patrician at SeaPrint: Book
1800-1849' I was much gratified by your giving me Eugene Aram to do - & then just as I was setting to it "tooth and nail" - some events in the family of a friend of mine forced me...Mary Shelley Edward BulwerEugene AramPrint: Book
1800-1849'Could you lend me any new publ. - you wd eternally oblige me - not the Contrast - I have read it - But the Fair of May Fair or Arlington -' [letter to Charles Ollier]Mary Shelley Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquis of NormanbyContrast, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wish...Mary Shelley Edward BulwerGodolphinPrint: Book
1800-1849'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wish...Mary Shelley Lady Caroline Lucy Scott [pseud.]Marriage in High Life, APrint: Book
1800-1849'he does not like any poetry except Percy's Ancient ballads and Shelley's translation of Homer's Hymn to mercury and the Cyclops - but he likes romances any marvellous ta...Percy Shelley Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book


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