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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
 
1850-1899'Called upon Nield in the evening and after a walk we came to my quarters and read the Parts we have in The Heir at Law.'Mr Neild George ColemanThe Heir at LawPrint: Book
1700-1799'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They are Colman's best things." [Boswell reports a conve...Samuel Johnson George ColmanTwo Odes: To Obscurity and To OblivionPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes th...Hester Lynch Thrale George ColmanClandestine Marriage, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I can make nothing of Craniology, for this reason: [Smith then discusses why he is not convinced by the idea] But to state what are original propensities, and to trace o...Sydney Smith George Combe[probably] A System of PhrenologyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 23 January 1837: 'I have read Coombs [sic] Phrenology [...] [It] is very clever, & amusing; but I do not think it logical or satis...Elizabeth Barrett George CombeElements of PhrenologyPrint: Book
1850-1899Hudson recalled how, preoccupied with the prospect of his mother's death and it effect on him: 'Then one day, with my mind in this troubled state, in reading George...William Henry Hudson George CombeA System of PhrenologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have many things to acknowledge, but let me take them in turn. Firstly, I have to thank you for your verses. Need I say that however much of truth there may be in them...Charles Dickens George Cox[MS verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849''Affecting picture of Constancy and Love' 'Yes! There are real mourners- I have seen /...' [transcription of 'The Church' from l.170 - 'While visions please her, and whi...Mary Groom George CrabbeThe ChurchUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		??And which of the living poets fulfils your ideal standard of excellence?? ?Crabbe. He is all nature without pomp or parade and exhibits at times deep pathos and feel...Charles Robert Maturin George Crabbepoetic worksPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted valuable reading time. Then there was opposition from h...Edwin Muir George Crabbe Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pretend to any thing that is the least [particle?] of ...Lady Caroline Lamb George CrabbePoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849[transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Crabbe Minutely trace Man?s life; year after year, Through all his days let all his deeds appear And then though some may ...Lady Caroline Lamb George CrabbeTale II, 'The Parting Hour'Unknown
1800-1849'No; I have never seen the death of Mrs Crabbe. I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he probably was married.'Jane Austen George Crabbepreface to The BoroughPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 July 1836: 'I remember daring to say to Sir Uvedale Price that I could not like Crabbe; and I remember -- how well! his ...Uvedale Price George CrabbeThe LibraryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think the public taste is not in any danger of relapsing into Arcadian pastorals, but I suspect these Caledonian pastorals to be almost as ideal. Crabbe, with his occ...Eleanor Anne Porden George Crabbe[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, a...Sarah Harriet Burney George CrabbePoetical Works of the Rev. George CrabbePrint: Book
1900-1945'In bed I have been fuming over your assumption that my liking for the poet Crabbe is avowed. I assure you I bought a copy out of my own pocket money before you were wea...Virginia Woolf George CrabbeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before m...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Crabbe Print: Book
1700-1799'I am desired by the Duchess of Rutland to Print a Discourse which I read at Belvoir-Chapel at the Funeral of the late Duke'.George Crabbe George Crabbe[funeral address for Duke of Rutland]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer your very obliging letter till I had read the Parish re...Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland George CrabbeParish Register, ThePrint: Book


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