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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
 
1850-1899Letter H 49 (late November 1856) ?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama) ? but it is a noble drama too ? ? John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856: ?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthusiastic: ?No doubt you are revelling, as I am, in Au...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H 85 (Latter half of March 1860) ?Mrs Browning?s verse is capital, but would have been better in prose. It is spoiled for rhyme?s sake.? John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPoems before CongressPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860) ?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly offensive and ?band plays?) ? Finest moral poetry eve...John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPoems before CongressPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
1850-1899'A letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabel Barrett tells of a sixty-year-old woman who believed that her morals had been injured by reading "Aurora Leigh" ...' Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History...George Eliot and G.H. LewesElizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolElizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'On her deathbed Lucy [Harrison] asked Amy [Greener, her lover] to read to her from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Caterina to Camoens" [...] It must have been painful for...Amy Greener Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCatarina to CamoensPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable things a very noble expression of what I believe to ...George Eliot [pseud] Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCasa Guidi WindowsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Many thanks for your delightful letter. I am glad you are in the midst of delightful scenery and Aurora Leigh.'Richard Reginald Harding Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a major disappointment: she tho...Edith Sitwell Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSonnets from the PortuguesePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 12 January 1851: 'Now I am going to speak to you about those sonnets [...] The truth is that though th...Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browningsonnets ['from the Portugese']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLady Geraldine’s CourtshipUnknown
1850-1899'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end italics], a poem in the September No of the Atlantic, 186...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Elizabeth C. AkersTwo SummersPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The children who like Bessy's Troubles are great geese, & no judges at all, which children generally are, for it is complete rubbish I am sorry to say'.'children', presumably known to Marianne GaskellElizabeth Cleghorn GaskellBessy's Troubles at Home Print: Book
1850-1899'She [Emma Darwin] was especially devoted to Jane Austen's novels and almost knew them by heart... Scott was also a perennial favourite, especially ''The Antiquary''. Mrs...Emma Darwin Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'My reader is a great success. It is ''Cranford'', and ''D-n Dr Johnson'' comes in. She stopped dead and said ''a slang expression''. I can't perceive she is ever amused....Emma Darwin Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long years ago (the first in queer green paper covers) whe...Henry James Elizabeth Drew StoddardThe MorgesonsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long years ago (the first in queer green paper covers) whe...Henry James Elizabeth Drew StoddardTwo MenPrint: Unknown


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