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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'Shaw's Monody' 'I who the tedious absence of a day /...' [transcribes poem from line 11]B.A.T. Herbert Cuthbert ShawMonody to the Memory of a Young Lady Who Died in CUnknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816: 'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this morning from Sir James Mackintosh: "I presume I have t...Sir James Mackintosh George Gordon Lord ByronMonody [on Sheridan]Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816: 'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this morning from Sir James Mackintosh: "I presume I have t...William Gifford George Gordon Lord ByronMonody [on Sheridan]Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816: 'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this morning from Sir James Mackintosh: "I presume I have t...John Hookham Frere George Gordon Lord ByronMonody [on Sheridan]Unknown
1850-1899'I have read M. Auguste.'Robert Louis Stevenson Joseph MeryMonsieur AugustePrint: Book
1850-1899'Miss Hutchison Stirling is I believe about to submit to you a little story which I read at her request some time ago and in which I thought there was great promise espec...Margaret Oliphant Amelia Hutchison StirlingMonsieur le ComteManuscript: Book in MS
1900-1945Tuesday 28 February 1939: 'I have just read [Shelley's] Mont Blanc, but cant make it "compose": clouds perpetually over lapping [sic]. If a new poem, what should I say? I...Virginia Woolf Percy Bysshe ShelleyMont BlancPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Francis Parkman, 24 August 1884: " ... I cannot hold my hand from telling you ... with what high appreciation and genuine gratitude I have been reading you...Henry James Francis ParkmanMontcalm and WolfePrint: Book
1600-1699'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this year doth not prove so good as the last was; and so after reading it, I burned it. After reading of that ...Samuel Pepys [John] [Phillips?]Montelion, the prophetical almanac for the year 16...Print: Pamphlet, almanac
1800-1849Byron to Elizabeth Pigot, 2 August 1807: 'I have now a Review before me entitled, "Literary Recreations" where my Bardship is applauded far beyond my Deserts ... [the] cr...George Gordon, Lord Byron VariousMonthly Literary RecreationsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Engaged in a 2nd perusal of The Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine I.G. Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From Hope went to the library and staid about an hour reading... In monthly Magazine of July 1820 remarkable praise of the life + writings of the celestial German philoso...Anne Lister Monthly MagazinePrint: Book
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Wrote out of the "Monthly Mag." an example of English hexameter. [Borrowed 'the first 12 no.s' from Miss Haynes on 17 August 1798] Sir Philip Sidney had an idea of the ...Joseph Hunter [n/a]Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeby it is certain is never to be in, but it is still r...James Hogg Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 28 June 1796: 'THE story of the Mysterious Mother is of an earlier date than the noble author imagined: it may be f...Robert Southey Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 2 November 1797: 'We have had a dreadful suicide here. the whole is in the Monthly Magazine.'Robert Southey Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 2 September 1796: 'IN your Magazine for June, a Correspondent, who signs himself M.H. has defended the system of He...Robert Southey Monthly Magazine (June 1796)Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799I wrote out of the Monthly Review, an anecdote of Dr Franklin's [surgeon?] who said that the [king?] was the only gentleman in the kingdom. I began to make an index to th...Joseph Hunter Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical


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