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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'On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: "Yesterday I dined alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord Byron's new poem whch is not destitute of merit...Margaret Beaumont George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage I and IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: "Yesterday I dined alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord Byron's new poem whch is not destitute of merit; th...William Wordsworth George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage I and IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 18 April 1807, C[oleridge] told Sotheby: "I read yesterday in a large company, where W. Wordsworth was present, about 150 lines of your Saul, respecting your countr...Samuel Taylor Coleridge William SothebySaul, a PoemUnknown
1800-1849'On 19 April 1809 S[ara] H[utchinson] wrote to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank, "The nicest model of a churn I ever saw was in 'Barrow's account of the interior of Africa....Sara Hutchinson John BarrowTravels into the Interior of South AfricaPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 19 Aug. 1810, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told W[ordsworth] that she was "reading Malkin's Gil Blas - and it is a beautiful Book as to printing etc but I think the Trans...Dorothy Wordsworth Alain Rene Le SageAdventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'On 2 August [1779], Charles Burney at Chessington read ... [The Witlings] aloud to a party which included [Samuel] Crisp, Crisp's sister Sophia Gast and the other Chessi...Charles Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'On 2 May 1812 M[ary] W[ordsworth] wrote to her husband from Hindwell: "I have read the 'Ladies calling' - one of thy books - which pleased me much ... " Mary Wordsworth Richard AllestreeLadies Calling, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'On 22 December the Woolfs went to Charleston for Christmas [...] Clive and Vanessa Bell [sister to Virginia Woolf] and the three children were there [...] Vanessa report...Vanessa Bell and familyVirginia WoolfdiariesManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'On 25.7.1799, I have seen a month or two ago, in the "Mon Mag" an account of the publication of the first part of the 1st vol [of the Supplement to the Encyclopedia Brit...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'On 29 Dec. 1806 Southey asked John May: "Have you seen the 'Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson'? Very, very rarely has any book so greatly delighted me."'Robert Southey Lucy HutchinsonMemoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governo...Print: Book
1800-1849'On 29 Nov. 1805, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont: "I am reading Rosco's Leo the tenth - I have only got through the first Chapter which I find exceedingly inte...Dorothy Wordsworth William RoscoeThe Life and Pontificate of Leo the TenthPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 30 May 1812 W[ordsworth] observed [regarding Maria Edgeworth] that "I had read but few of her works" ... 'William Wordsworth Maria EdgeworthunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby: "I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir with a very old acquaintance, a Sonnet of yours, whch ...William Wordsworth William SothebyI knew a gentle maidPrint: Book
1700-1799'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby: "I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir with a very old acquaintance, a Sonnet of yours, whch ...William Wordsworth William SothebyI knew a gentle maidUnknown
1800-1849'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby: "I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir with a very old acquaintance, a Sonnet of yours, whch ...William Wordsworth Alaric WattsSouvenirPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'On 7 Aug. 1805 the Wordsworths told Lady Beaumont that "We have just read a poem called the Sabbath written by a very good man in a truly christian spirit ... "'Wordsworth FamilyJames GrahameSabbath, TheUnknown
1800-1849'On 7 July 1809, W[ordsworth] told Thomas Wilkinson that "Mr Coleridge showed me a little poem of yours upon your Birds which gave us all very great pleasure."'Wordsworth FamilyThomas WilkinsonTo My Thrushes, Blackbirds, etc.Unknown
1700-1799'On 9 April 1792 Anna Margaretta Larpent rose at 7.30, a little earlier than her usual, "spent some time", as she described it, '"n self examination", and then read two c...Anna Larpent Thomas PaineRights of manPrint: Book
1900-1945'On 9 February he read in the paper news that turned his mind from the future to the past. His old friend George Sturt was dead.'Arnold Bennett  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken' [transcript entire poem]Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron'On A Cornelian Heart' OR Childe Harold's PilgrimaUnknown


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