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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
 
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (January 1803): 'I am now going for 2 or 3 hours to experience that most delightful of pleasures; solitude...Selina Trimmer  Print: Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Cha...Lady Harriet Cavendish Clarendon Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (September 1804): 'My sister and I finished the 3rd volume of Cowper yesterday. I am enthusiasti...Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth Cowper Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 15 October 1804: 'We have finished Cowper and have begun to read Charles the Vth.'Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth Cowper Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 10 November 1805: 'Lady B[essborough]. [aunt] has just been at the Priory of which, allowing for her usua...William and Caroline Lamb  Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 10 November 1805: 'Lady B[essborough]. [aunt] has just been at the Priory of which, allowing for her usua...Lord and Lady Aberdeen  Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 22 November 1805: 'In the morning I read by myself for two hours, and this though not a large portion of ...Lady Harriet Cavendish  Print: Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, during stay with her Spencer relations (c.1807): 'We are all as regular as clocks: read, work, and play o...Lady Harriet Cavendish and family  Print: Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 8 August 1807: 'George's reading goes on prosperously and Georgiana is the quickest little cre...George Howard  Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 8 August 1807, on her nephew and nieces' progress in education: 'George's reading goes on pros...Lady Harriet Cavendish and Caroline Howard  Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 12 August 1807: 'I have been, since I last wrote, going on with my [italics]usual[end italics]...Lady Harriet Cavendish Bossuet Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 16 August 1807: 'I got up this morning at 6 and finished Bossuet -- I am very much pleased wit...Lady Harriet Cavendish Bossuet Print: Book
1900-1945'You know Marris--the man of the East who wrote the letter I read to you? Well he is going back to his Malay princess wife and his kid, right away. I have asked him to co...Joseph Conrad Carl Murrell Marris Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945 Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the 'Mercury'. (One never misses these things.) Equally of cou...Arnold Bennett J.B. Priestley Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscenc...Miss Goadby Thomas Moore Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscenc...Frederick Edminson Thomas Moore Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscenc...Frederick Edminson Thomas Hood Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admirer, pointing out or reciting to me their finest passa...Ralph Milbanke William Shakespeare Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admirer, pointing out or reciting to me their finest passa...Ralph Milbanke Thomas Otway Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admirer, pointing out or reciting to me their finest passa...Ralph Milbanke John Dryden Print: Book


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