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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'[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's childrenGeorge Crabbe[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Our lord of the "cairn & the scaur" waste wilderness and hundred hills for many a league around is the Duke of Buccleuch the head of my clan a kind & benevolent landlord...Charles William Montagu Scott and Harriet Katherine Townshend, Duke and Duchess of BuccleuchGeorge Crabbe[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849[Crabbe relates how he had fallen in love with Charlotte Williams and written her various letters, before she revealed she loved another] 'there was all this Time a Frien...Charlotte Ridout George Crabbe[letters from Crabbe to Charlotte Ridout's friend ...Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the firs...George Crabbe Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the firs...John Crabbe Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yo...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert Browning'Garden Fancies: I, The Flower's Name; II, Sibrand...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yo...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert Browning'The Tomb at St. Praxed's (Rome, 15----.)'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yo...Elizabeth Barrett Robert Browning'The Boy and the Angel'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her published juvenile writings: 'I leave my sins & yo...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert Browning'The Laboratory (Ancien Regime)'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 14 June 1845: 'When I ask my wise self what I really do remember of that Prize-poem -- the answer is -- both of...Robert Browning Alfred TennysonTimbuctooPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'R[obert] B[rowning] wrote seven and a half pages of comments about E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett]'s revised translation [of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound], and ended with...Robert Browning Aeschylus Prometheus BoundManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845: 'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and Ernest Maltravers, mentioned by Barrett in letter po...Robert Browning Edward George Bulwer-LyttonAlice, or The MysteriesPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845: 'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and Ernest Maltravers, mentioned by Barrett in letter po...Robert Browning Edward George Bulwer-LyttonErnest MaltraversPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845: 'There lies Consuelo -- done with! 'I shall tell you frankly that it strikes [italics]me[end...Robert Browning George SandConsueloPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 6 September 1845: 'I shd. have written long since to you, if but to thank you for Edgar Poe's ballad .. of which [...] [italics]t...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Edgar Allan Poe'The Raven'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 11 September 1845: 'Mrs Shelley found Italy for the first time, real Italy at Sorrento, she says. Oh that book ...Robert Browning Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyRambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842 and 184...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845: 'I began to write last saturday to thank you for all the delight, I had in Shelley [...] Bes...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Percy Bysshe ShelleyPosthumous PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845: 'I began to write last saturday to thank you for all the delight, I had in Shelley [...] Bes...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Percy Bysshe Shelley'Marianne's Dream'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 1 October 1845: 'I have read to the last line of your Rosicrucian; & my scepticism grew & grew through Hume's p...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Percy Bysshe ShelleySt. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance. By a G...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 4 October 1845: 'Your spring-song is full of beauty as you know very well [...] so characteristic of you [...] that I was sorely ...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert Browning'Oh to be in England'Manuscript: Sheet


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