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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 stumbled on the following in a work of Bulwer's published in /41 - it is curious. Speaking of France he says: "The vast masses of energy & life broken up by the great ...Mary Shelley Edward BulwerNight & MorningPrint: Book
1800-1849'No further news in this Mornings Times from Vienna - I am very anxious for Charles' [letter to Claire Clairmont]Mary Shelley [n/a]TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 31 March 1843: 'I feel guilty before you, since your last letter has remained too long unanswered [...] I thought it necessary...Elizabeth Barrett James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian)The Death of CuchullinPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 7 April 1843: 'I have read Caesar's commentaries, to be sure, .. but I found them harder to read than his battles were t...Elizabeth Barrett Julius CaesarDe Bello GallicoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was astonished yesterday to see in the Times (I sent it) the advertisement that Jenny Lind, after all, is to come out in the Lucia' [sing in "Lucia di Lammermoor" [le...Mary Shelley [n/a]TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett (in hand of an amanuensis, Boyd being blind), letter postmarked 13 April 1843: 'It runs in my head, that several years ago, per...Hugh Stuart Boyd article regarding Ossian controversyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 21 April 1843: 'Mrs S. C. Hall is an agreeable & graceful writer, & I am one of her many readers [...] From her husband ...Elizabeth Barrett Mrs Samuel Carter HallunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Go...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William Pinnock[?] Catechism of the History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Go...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William PinnockCatechism of Geography; being an easy Introduction...Print: Book
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Go...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Sarah TrimmerAbridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Le...Print: Book
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Go...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [n/a]Church CatechismPrint: Book
1800-1849'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being f...Jane Sewell Richard WalterVoyage Around the World by George AnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being f...Jane Sewell William LempriereTour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, ...Print: Book
1800-1849'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being f...Jane Sewell [unknown]History of MontezumaPrint: Book
1800-1849'whilst yet in the nursery, I learned the greater portion of the first chapter of Isaiah, and can repeat it to this day. No one told me to do so, or even knew that I had ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [n/a]Book of IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addiso...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Joseph AddisonSpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addiso...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addiso...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mason[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addiso...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Joseph AddisonCatoPrint: Book
1800-1849'My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know the language, was gained from being allowed to look at a beautiful copy of Burger's "Lenore", illustrated by...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Gottfried August BurgerLenorePrint: Book


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