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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
 
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's Note Book: 'On the 25th November 1825, I went by His Majesty's invitation to dine and sleep at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park. His Majesty...King George IV and John Wilson CrokerThomas MooreLife of SheridanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequ...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronFare thee wellPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'Who is Mr. Prior? I have read his "Life of Burke" with the greatest satisfaction [...] There are very few thin...Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool PriorLife of BurkeUnknown
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully...Richard Lovell Edgeworth George Gordon, Lord ByronFare thee wellPrint: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society
1800-1849'Of his poem Waterloo she writes: "These are my honest opinions, just as I should give them to any third person: and let me fairly add that I by no means expected to be ...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottField of Waterloo, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Like most of those capable of appreciating real literature, Lady Louisa enjoyed novels of almost any description; admitting her taste with unusual frankness: "I did n...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, of course, longed to read nothing so much. I knew on...Jean Jacques RousseauJulie; ou, la Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read "Emma", a novel of Miss Austen's? I have seen three or four [italics] Harriet Smiths [end italics] taken up and let down again, and you not being a [it...Louisa, Lady Stuart Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end italics] with "Marmion", but I was prisoner with so sev...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottMarmionManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end italics] with "Marmion", but I was prisoner with so sev...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'With the same amusement [of secret knowledge about Scott's authorship] I now sit by the fire, sucking in the sagacious remarks I hear. Says one, who has a favourite rela...Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and M...acquaintances of Louisa StuartWalter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and M...acquaintances of Louisa StuartWalter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and M...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and M...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and M...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and M...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and M...Mrs Weddell Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and M...Mrs Weddell Daniel Defoe[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully...Richard Lovell Edgeworth [unknown][Reports on Mendicity]Print: Unknown


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