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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 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & think it a pretty book. A few children of six years o...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Hengist Horne and Mary GilliesA Story Book of Country ScenesPrint: Book
1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & think it a pretty book. A few children of six years o...Moulton-Barrett family (children)S. W.A Visit to a Farm-housePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 12 April 1845: 'I have been detained from writing to you by reading the Athenaeum of today.'Harriet Martineau The AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- ...Elizabeth Barrett Charles BernardUn homme serieuxPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- ...Elizabeth Barrett Charles BernardLe ParaventPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- ...Elizabeth Barrett Charles BernardUne Aventure de magistratPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: '[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; & really I like George Sand's wickedness better, -- ...Elizabeth Barrett George SandRose et BlanchePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: 'I must beg you to order & read "Le rouge et le noir" by a M. de Stendhal .. a "nom de guerre" I fancy. I wis...Elizabeth Barrett Stendhal Le rouge et le noirPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: 'We shall find no where on the earth, I believe, the climate of Paradise; -- not even at Hyeres. In Mdme. Cha...Elizabeth Barrett Henriette Etiennette Fanny ReybaudDeux a deuxPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 30 April 1845: 'You will see the announcement of Mrs. Norton's new poem on the "Child of the Islands", namely our little Prince...Elizabeth Barrett Caroline Norton'The Child of the Islands' (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845: 'You ask me questions, "if I like novels," [...] There is a story of D'Israeli's, an old one, wi...Robert Browning Benjamin DisraeliVivian GreyPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845: 'That book you like so, the Danish novel, must be full of truth & beauty, to judge from the few ...Robert Browning Hans Christian AndersenThe Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 1 May 1845: 'Once I sate up all night to read Vivian Grey'.Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin DisraeliVivian GreyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1845: 'I have found [...] the continuation of David Sichard [novel by Balzac] [...] It is "Esther" in two volumes, & t...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacEsther, ou les Amours d'un vieux banquierPrint: Book
1800-1849'On the other hand, the most pleasurable thing, which has befallen me was receiving two packets, from England, in the same night: the one a letter of fifteen pages from M...Jane Baillie Welsh Various AutographsManuscript: Autographs
1800-1849'My eldest girl begins to read well and enters as well into the humour as into the sentiment of your admirable descriptions of human life'Sophia Scott George CrabbeTales in versePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 May 1845: 'Thank you, thank you, for letting me see the pencilled lines by poor Clare! -- How strangely melancholy, that ...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett John ClareunknownManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 May 1845: 'I know Bamford's "Life of a Radical," which contains some of his verses -- but there seemed to me to be more p...Elizabeth Barrett Samuel BamfordPassages in the Life of a RadicalPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 28 May 1845: 'For the newspapers, or rather for your verses in them, I thank you much [...] the stanzas on Kennedy's Mill road s...Elizabeth Barrett Allan Park Paton'The Road Round by Kennedy's Mill'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 June 1845: 'I have seen Elliott's poems but not in the form you mention -- & I always estimated him highly as a true poet...Elizabeth Barrett Ebenezer ElliottpoemsUnknown


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