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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 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 [n/a]Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
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
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Byron, 25 April 1805: 'You say you are sick of the Installation [of seven Knights of the Garter at Windsor], and that Ld. C[arlisle] was not present; I h...George Gordon Lord Byron anonMorning PostPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'The bloody proceeding [a reference to a disturbance at Westminster School] I have seen no account of in the papers ...Robert Southey Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'You may lately have seen her pretty often alluded to in the Morning Post, ?but pray who is the [ital] Dr. B [ital] in Yesterdays?(Monday?s) Paper??it seems as if meant f...Frances Burney Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Steamer from Southampton docked at Bermuda, bringing English newspapers up to date of 2nd June: 'Our second lieutenant instantly boarded her as officer on guard, and bro...John Mitchel [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theat...Zoe Procter [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'See in "Morning Post" of October 4th, 61, page 3, 3rd column, last article, results of Christianity and "Mr Close of Cheltenham".'John Ruskin [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Read Morning Post newspaper. Rained all day cld. not go out.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945 'I owe you my best thanks for the gift of Mrs Cornford’s book of poems which I am delighted to have. I have been away in Wiltshire or would have thanked you soo...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Eliza Fenwick, a touring actress, to her mother, also Eliza Fenwick, 'Barbadoes, May 2nd [1812], Morning, 10 o clock,' describing her experiences following a nearby volca...Eliza Fenwick junior Morning ServicePrint: Book
1850-1899?The "Morning Star" was at that time the leading Radical daily in London ? almost the only Radical daily, indeed. It was my custom every morning (Sundays excepted, of cou...William Edwin Adams [n/a]Morning StarPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Wu notes translated extract from Sir Bors' lament for Arthur (in the Morte D'Arthur of Thomas Malory) in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book.Wordsworth FamilyThomas MaloryMorte D'ArthurManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'When the seventeen-year-old seaman entered Mr Pratt's bookstore on Sixth Avenue near Greenwich Avenue, he bought his first volume of Sir Thomas Malory's Morete d'Arthur;...John Masefield Thomas MaloryMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening we all went over to the Camerons. Several Pre-Raphaelite artists were there to meet Tennyson; Hunt and Rossetti and one or two whose names I did not gath...Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred, Lord TennysonMorte d'ArthurUnknown
1850-18993 November 1857: 'In the evening we all went over to the Camerons [i.e. Charles Hay, and Julia Margaret Cameron]. Several Pre-Raphaelite artists were there to meet Ten...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage about the battle with the Romans. He went to meet M...Alfred Tennyson Thomas MaloryMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899'On Feb. 17th [1861] my father told my mother about his plan for a new poem, "The Northern Farmer." 'By the evening of Feb. 18th he had already written down a great pa...Alfred and Emily TennysonThomas MaloryMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Alfred TennysonMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book


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