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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1845: 'Have you seen the "Compagnon du tour de France" by George Sand? I sent for it, with a fancy that it might be ...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLe Compagnon du Tour de FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15-17 July 1845: 'Yesterday you must have wondered at me for being in such a maze about the poems. It was assuredly the wine song...Elizabeth Barrett Robert Browning'Claret and Tokay'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, ?18 July 1845: 'I confess to you that [...] as soon as I read your "Essay on Mind" (which of course I managed to do about 12 hour...Robert Browning Elizabeth BarrettAn Essay on MindPrint: Book
1800-1849Richard Hengist Horne to Edgar Allan Poe, 17 May 1845: 'Miss Barrett has read the "Raven" and says she thinks there is a fine lyrical melody in it. When I tell you tha...Elizabeth Barrett Edgar Allan Poe'The Raven'Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr Pratt Author of a poem called "the Lower World" & of divers other works in prose & rhyme sent to me his Book with obliging direction where to find a Line of Panegyric...George Crabbe Samuel Jackson PrattLower World, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-dispos...George Crabbe Scotish Review, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-dispos...George Crabbe Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'We like you amuse ourselves with reading: we are familiar with the Scenery of the North & Court of King James: we could guess that Snowdoun, Knight was King but not that...Crabbe familyWalter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'To my Gothic ear, indeed the "Stabat Mater", the "Dies Irae", and some of the other hymns of the Catholic Church are more solemn and affecting than the fine classical po...Walter Scott George Buchanan[Latin poems and hymns]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I derived a three fold Pleasure from the Receipt of Rokeby, first from the book itself, the Article, the thing sold and bought, & for this I know how much I am indebted ...George Crabbe Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Pratt & I began to write nearly about the same time & his Sympathy & my Village were [cancelled] nearly [ end cancelled] contemporaries, but this soon ceased & I was ...George Crabbe Samuel Jackson PrattSympathy; a PoemPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind w...George Crabbe Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind w...George Crabbe Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind w...George Crabbe Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind w...George Crabbe Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the...George Crabbe Horace SmithHorace in LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the...George Crabbe Horace SmithRejected AddressesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the...George Crabbe William Wordsworth[poems]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'there is one Story if story it may be called, that Shape or Limb, Beginning or End has none, "The ancient Mariner or poets Reverie" written by a friend [of Wordsworth] (...George Crabbe Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRime of the Ancient Mariner, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe had sent Scott, who already had one, a set of his works - he explained later that he'd intended it for Mrs Scott. Scott responded to the present,] to say the tru...Walter Scott George Crabbe[Works]Print: Book


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