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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
 
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning & Sister[,] Dowson & wife dined with us a week back, Browning read us your letter, a capital one [...] ...Robert Browning Alfred Domettletter to Robert BrowningManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'What a pity [Tennyson] has not the intense vigour of Robert Browning -- I still believe as devoutly as ever in P...Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi & Vittoria Corombona I have been re-reading lately...Joseph Arnould John WebsterThe Duchess of MalfiPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi & Vittoria Corombona I have been re-reading lately...Joseph Arnould John WebsterThe White DevilPrint: Book
1800-1849Sara Coleridge to John Kenyon, 1844: 'I return with thanks the Poems of Miss Barrett, which I now always mention in high terms to any of my acquaintances, whenever t...Sara Coleridge Elizabeth BarrettPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 June 1844: 'Leigh Hunt has shown me his copy [of A New Spirit of the Age] all marked through. He has marked with great...Leigh Hunt Richard Hengist HorneA New Spirit of the AgePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 June 1844: 'The poem [of Caroline Norton's] which I called [italics]domestic[end italics] is one, I think, in an octav...Elizabeth Barrett Caroline Elizabeth Sarah NortonThe Dream, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 11 July 1844: 'I read Tennyson with deep & high delight, yet with the mournful feeling that his operation & immortality must ...Harriet Martineau Alfred TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 July 1844: 'I heard the other day that "Agathonia" was Mrs Gore's! [...] Mr Crabbe Robinson told George [? i.e. Barrett...Henry Crabb Robinson Catherine GoreAgathoniaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844: 'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting memoir of Mrs Hemans by Mr Chorley -- full of int...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Fothergill ChorleyMemorials of Mrs HemansPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844: 'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting memoir of Mrs Hemans by Mr Chorley -- full of int...Elizabeth Barrett Samuel Laman BlanchardLife and Literary Remains of L.E.L.Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to James Russell Lowell, 31 July 1844, thanking him for copy of his Poems (1844): 'Your "Legend of Brittany" is full of beautiful touches [...] The...Elizabeth Barrett James Russell LowellPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9-10 August 1844: 'Do you remember, by the glance you had, my lovely little cousin Lizzie Barrett [...] Well -- that child...Lizzie Barrett Mary Russell MitfordunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 August 1844: 'I regret to say, dear Miss Barrett, that we have achieved our first reading of the book, & like silly children...Thomas Westwood and familyElizabeth BarrettPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 August 1844: 'I regret to say, dear Miss Barrett, that we have achieved our first reading of the book, & like silly children...Thomas Westwood Elizabeth BarrettPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 September 1844: 'I have sent you Miss Pyer's volume of poems today .. & see in it an address to yourself. The subscripti...Elizabeth Barrett Catherine Smith PyerWild Flowers; or Poetic Gleanings from Natural Obj...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 September 1844: 'I read the preface to "Le Lis" & was delighted by it -- but I admire the romance far more than you seem...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLe Lys dans la Vallee (including Preface)Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 September 1844: 'The first book of Balzac's I ever read, disgusted me so, that I vowed to read no more of him, -- & it ...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLa Vieille FillePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 September 1844: 'You have been in my mind, & your vols -- or one at a time, while the other was out, -- open before me dai...Harriet Martineau Elizabeth BarrettPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 September 1844: 'I have just read Coningsby. It is very able, & yet scarcely efficient [...] It has no story, & not a g...Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin DisraeliConingsby: or, The New GenerationPrint: Book


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