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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'Robert has in several instances spoiled the effect of the tales at the close by winding them too abruptly up The Marvellous Doctor is quite ruined for though previously ...James Hogg James HoggShepherd's Calendar, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am exceedingly disgusted with the last beastly Noctes and as it is manifest that the old business of mockery and redicule [sic] is again beginning I have been earnestl...James Hogg 'Noctes Ambrosianae. No. XLII' [Blackwood's Edinbu...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'There is a new work lately come to my hand "The Jacobite Minstrelsy of Scotland" which is the most bare-faced plagiarism that ever was attempted. It is by a Griffin & Co...James Hogg Jacobite Minstrelsy, with notes Illustrative of th...Print: Book
1800-1849'I enclose you two poems one by Mr Riddell which I have copied and corrected a sublime and beautiful thing, its only fault being a small shade of redundancy of thought bu...James Hogg Henry Scott Ridell'Ode to the Harp of Zion'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have within these few minutes recieved Friendship's Offering. It is splendid and far outvies any of the foregoing numbers. I really anticipate good news of it this yea...James Hogg Thomas Pringle [ed.]Friendship's OfferingPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Though Maga would have the better [sic] of something of mine it is nevertheless an excellent number. "The Age" is inimitable so is "The Currency"and indeed the whole is ...James Hogg John Wilson'The Age - A Poem - in Eight Books' [Blackwood's E...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have not yet had time to read through the Twin Sisters but there is a certain stile apparent in the Fall of Nineveh &c which is always irrestible [sic] though not equa...James Hogg Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have received the foregoing little poem from a townsman of your's which I think so good I transmit it to you for insertion in the Juvenile Keepsake and hope you will o...James Hogg Mr Brooks[poem]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849[Hogg is enclosing his 'Adventures of Colonel Peter Aston'] 'No body ever saw it but Dr Moir (Delta) who read it and will recognize it at first sight but as it is likely ...David Macbeth Moir James Hogg'Adventures of Colonel Peter Aston, The'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Mag...James Hogg ['Literary Gossip' articles in Newcastle Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Mag...James Hogg Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Mag...James Hogg [possibly] the 'Edinburgh Advertiser'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight your old friend for such feminine frible-frable! Wils...James Hogg Caroline Bowles Southey'La petite Madelaine'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight your old friend for such feminine frible-frable! Wils...James Hogg John Wilson'Unimore. A Dream of the Highlands'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I send you two pieces which were sent me for the proposed Poetic Mirror long ago and which are not in print to my knowledge. Southey's is one of his very best'James Hogg Robert Southey[possibly] 'A true Ballad of St Antidius, the Pope...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have recieved Maga to night and looked it over but think very poorly of it You need not send any more of them as I would not be at the pains to cut them up for the sak...James Hogg Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Who the devil was it who wrote the last article of the Quarterly? He is a lad of some spirit and I must have a half mutchkin with him.'James Hogg Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Here is a sort of little standard library kept - Spenser, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, & a few foreign books, & we sit and read & dream our time away'Elizabeth and William Gaskell  Print: Book
1800-1849'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the latter! [end italics]Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
1800-1849'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the latter! [end italics]Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Wordsworth Print: Book


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