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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'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & go...George Crabbe Thomas WartonHistory of English Poetry, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just read the "Liber Amoris" of (as we are told) Mr Hazlet: it is strange that any Man could write & marvelous that he could publish such History of his own Weakn...George Crabbe William HazlittLiber Amoris, or the New PygmalionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been engaged by Spurzheims new Edition of his Phrenology: he does not write English Accurately & even where I understand, I cannot always agree & that in Assertio...George Crabbe Johann C. SpurzheimPhrenologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I thank you for your Letter & Mr Scott's Treatise. True! I agree with him in his principal Idea, though even there I do not like the Expression that Regeneration must pr...George Crabbe Abraham ScottCalvinistic Doctrines RefutedPrint: Book
1800-1849'The public opinion [of the trial of Catherine Cook, a servant convicted of theft] is, I think, expressed in the Morning Herald. Other papers I do not see, except the pro...George Crabbe [n/a]Morning Herald, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected ...George Crabbe Horace SmithGaieties and Gravities; A Series of Sketches, Comi...Print: Book
1800-1849'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected ...George Crabbe [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 1 October 1849: 'We have had much quiet enjoyment here [...] read some amusing books, (Dumas & Sue! -- shake your ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAlexandre Dumas Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 1 October 1849: 'We have had much quiet enjoyment here [...] read some amusing books, (Dumas & Sue! -- shake your ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningEugene Sue Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849: 'The [French] President's letter from Rome has delighted us -- A letter worth writing and reading! ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLouis Napoleon Letter to Edgar NeyPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849: 'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere -- I fancy in the Spectator -- and was not much struck...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Thomas Burbidge and Arthur Hugh CloughAmbarvalia (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849: 'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere -- I fancy in the Spectator -- and was not much struck...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett John Kenyon'Sacred Gipsy Carol'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThomas Burbidge and Arthur Hugh CloughAmbarvaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningArthur Hugh CloughThe Bothie of Toper-Na-FuosichPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Matthew Arnold'The Sick King in Bokhara'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Matthew Arnold'The Forsaken Merman'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850: 'Miss Fanshawe is well worth your writing of [...] as one of the most witty of our wits in verse, ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Catherine Maria FanshawepoemsManuscript: Unknown, copied
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 May 1845: 'The "Memoires de Fleure," was made into an agreeable English book, with certain abbreviations, by The...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett The French Stage and the French People, as illustr...Print: Book
1800-1849'The reason for my not mentioning the History of Bremhill was this. I had not read at that time more than a very few pages: I knew nothing of Wansdike, nothing of Tanhill...George Crabbe William Lisle BowlesParochial History of Bremhill, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are...George Crabbe Edward CoplestonInquiry into the Doctrines of Necessity & Predesti...Print: Book


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