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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
 
1850-1899'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899'By the way do you like Maud. I cannot say I do. It strikes me that if John Smith or Bill Jones had written it, they would have been put into an asylum. There are only ...Emily De Quincey Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899From Tennyson's journal of 1855: 'October 1st. [...] I read "Maud" to five or six people at the Brownings (on Sept. 28th).'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at his request read "Maud." It appears that the poor ma...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899'I shall never forget his [Tennyson's] last reading of "Maud," on August 24th, 1892. He was sitting in his high-backed chair, fronting a southern window which looks over ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 31 July 1855: 'I thank you much for sending me "Maud." I have only read it twice, but I have already a strong feeling of what it is [....Henry Taylor Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'I once met Tennyson at dinner at the Conservative Club, in company with Dicky Doyle, Sir J. Emerson Tennent...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of "Maud." Rachel had come to the Haymarket Theatre, f...John Tyndall Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of "Maud." Rachel had come to the Haymarket Theatre, f...John Tyndall Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home: 'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the study [...] and I had him to myself for two or three...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaud (extracts)Unknown
1850-1899'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for some time, called upon us. My father took her over the ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaud (extracts)Unknown
1850-1899'On Jan. 10th 1855 my father had "finished, and read out, several lyrics of Maud.'"Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaud (sections)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "...Norman Nicholson Alfred, Lord TennysonMaud [and other poems?]Print: Book
1850-1899?I have just been reading "Maud". Do not fear, dear; it has not been unpleasant to me; I see and know and accept all the limitations without a grudge.? Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred, Lord TennysonMaud; A MonodramaPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Idylls of the King & Maud'Sarah Good Alfred, Lord TennysonMaud; A MonodramaPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as this [Forster's novel of homosexual love, Maurice] -- ...Edward Carpenter E. M. ForsterMauriceManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as this [Forster's novel of homosexual love, Maurice] -- ...Roger Fry E. M. ForsterMauriceManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as this [Forster's novel of homosexual love, Maurice] -- ...Sydney Waterlow E. M. ForsterMauriceManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the front hall ... But when the discovery of her new-fo...Young Lady Aberdeen and mother Mavor's spelling bookPrint: Book


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