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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'I received Walter Scott's Rokeby. I gazed at it with a transport of impatience, and began reading it in bed. I am already in the first canto: - my soul has glowed with w...Charlotte Bury Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Talking of books, we have lately had a literary Sun shine forth upon us here, before whom our former luminaries must hide their diminished heads - a Mr Shelley, of Unive...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Percy Bysshe ShelleyPosthumous Fragments of Margaret NicholsonPrint: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'I also transmit Octavian, and a volume of poems written by a friend of mine. He is, poor fellow! in the last stage of a consumption; so the critics should be merciful, f...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe  Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. F...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Alexander Peden Print: Unknown
1800-1849'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. F...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Donald Cargill Print: Unknown
1800-1849'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. F...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Song of SolomonManuscript: Unknown, verse translation by Barbara Macky
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Anna SewardLetters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Sydney OwensonMissionary, The: An Indian TalePrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Walter ScottVision of Don Roderick , ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe John Ford[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe John FordBroken Heart, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Nathaniel Lee Print: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe James Somerville SomervilleMemorie of the Somervilles being a history of the...Manuscript: MS book
1800-1849'So much for books - saving that Sir John Murray hath found the whole correspondence of the Earl of Chesterfield, who flourished in King Charles the Second's time, in Bat...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'When Miss Porter's Don Sebastian came out, I expected to find the Margravine, Keppel Craven, (with whom the fair authoress was in love,) and many of my other friends the...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Anna Maria PorterDon Sebastian Or The House Of BraganzaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I went to church: heard a very fine sermon. The text was taken from the Psalms. Missed the verse, and could not find it, but the meaning was that evil company corrupts g...Charlotte Bury PsalmsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Princess received a letter of twenty-eight pages, from the Princess Charlotte, which looked like the writing of a chambermaid, and appeared to me wholly illegible; b...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Princess Charlotte LetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'She read one of Madame de Stael's [italics] Petits Romans [end italics], which I had lent her, and which she told me had given her great pleasure'.Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Anne Louise Germaine de Stael HolsteinPetits RomansPrint: Book
1800-1849'She reads a great deal, and buys all new books'Princess Caroline Princess of Wales  Print: Book
1800-1849'I am sorry to mention that [Lord Byron's] last poem upon "The Decadence of Bonaparte", is worthy neither his pen nor his muse'.Princess Caroline Princess of Wales George Gordon, Lord Byron'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte'Unknown



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