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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
 
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917: 'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying extracts into my "War Anthology" [...] I have put in...Edward Morgan Forster Walter PaterMarius the EpicureanPrint: Book
1850-1899'"Marius [the Epicurean]" came this morning and I am licking my chops in anticipation.'Joseph Conrad Walter PaterMarius the EpicureanPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: "I've just seen Aldrich's Marjory Daw in the Revue looking as natural as if begotten in the Gallic brain. It's a prett...Henry James Thomas Bailey AldrichMarjory DawPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations stud...Constance Burrow Mark Rutherford [pseud.]Mark Rutherford's Deliverance Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'Thank you for Marmion which I have read with lively pleasure ... 'William Wordsworth Walter ScottMarmionUnknown
1800-1849'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the latter almost entirely, by heart, merely from his de...Thomas Babington Macaulay Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1808: 'I went in the evening to Mrs. D[?amer]. Read "Marmion," just come out, to her.'Mary Berry Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 10 March 1808: 'Read some more of "Marmion".'Mary Berry Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read with Cecilia a good deal of "marmion" the new poem of Sir Walter Scott, which I like.'William Windham Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. When ...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your others and as long as that is admired (which it ever wil...James Hogg Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind w...George Crabbe Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end italics] with "Marmion", but I was prisoner with so sev...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottMarmionManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the retur...Anne Romilly Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1850-1899'In afternoon, the trance-teaching, and the reading of "Marmion" with companions...'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 27 March 1826: 'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow Ladies -- One whom I had already assisted on some law...anon Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'At two o'clock we passed the famed St. Abb's Head, which we had so longed to see on our first voyage to Scotland. I read a few stanzas out of Marmion, giving an account ...Queen Victoria Sir Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Ought I to be very much pleased with Marmion? - As yet I am not. James reads it aloud in the Eveng - the short Eveng - beginning at about 10, & broken by supper.'James Austen Walter ScottMarmion, or A Tale of Flodden FieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'I immediately borrowed and sat down to a second perusal of Marmion. I like the brave villain much for being so wholly divested of sneakiness...'Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottMarmion: a Tale of Flodden FieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Oh! Woman! In our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard to please...'[6 lines] 'Marmion'Carey/Maingay groupWalter ScottMarmion: A Tale of Flodden FieldPrint: Unknown


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