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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 staid in and read Byron'John Ruskin George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read some of Wilkinson's "Egypt".'John Ruskin Sir John Gardner WilkinsonEgyptPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wet all day. Read Andersen's tales. There is a strange mingling of false sentiment - unchildlike - with their delicate fancy and wit; too much of rosebowers and crystal ...John Ruskin Hans Christen Andersen[tales]Print: Book
1800-1849'Working on 8th and 3rd Books only, examining Plato's fearful judgement on invalids.'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Jeffrey has sent me a note requesting the Ops Majus by the middle of next month, and enclosing a draft of twenty guineas for the article on Richter. You may conceive wh...Thomas Carlyle Franz HornUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Which resolutions with health and my habits of indutry will make me 'Sleep in spite of thunder'.Walter Scott William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Graham, the maker of this hat, is a poor but industrious woman, about five-and-thirty years of age, resident with her husband and daughter, in a cottage belonging to...Mrs Graham William CobbettCottage Economy: A New EditionPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'The Edinr Review is out some time ago; and the 'State of German Literature' has been received with considerable surprise and approbation by the Universe. Thus for insta...Thomas Carlyle Thomas de QuinceyReview of 'State of German Literature'Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Everything seems to have been designed to develop the serious fold in her nature. At ten, the poor infant was reading Smollett's History [...] She summed up her impressi...Anne Isabella Milbanke Tobias SmollettHistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbours and tenants, with a friendly finger ready to stick...Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella MilbankeJohn Milton Print: Book
1800-1849'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbours and tenants, with a friendly finger ready to stick...Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke Cowper Print: Book
1800-1849'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbours and tenants, with a friendly finger ready to stick...Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella MilbankeThomas Campbell Print: Book
1800-1849'In Seaham village lived a poet, "an unfortunate child of Genius," -- one Joseph Blacket, a cobbler's son, whom [Anne Isabella Milbanke's] parents actively befriended. Wh...Anne Isabella Milbanke Joseph BlacketpoetryUnknown
1800-1849'In 1809 [Anne Isabella Milbanke] wrote the Lines supposed to be spoken at the Grave of Dermody. It is one of the earliest of her compositions extant [goes on to quote 11...George Gordon Lord Byron Anne Isabella Milbanke'Lines Supposed to be Spoken at the Grave of Dermo...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Poetry and shoemaking were part of the daily round [for the young Anne Isabella Milbanke]; a grander ambition was taking shape. Translations from Horace [...] Three line...Anne Isabella Milbanke Horace  Print: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday I had a letter from Murray in answer to one I had written in something of a determined stile for I had no idea of permitting him to start from the course after...Walter Scott John MurrayLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'[Anne Isabella Milbanke] read a great deal [during season of 1813], among her books being one called Pride and Prejudice, "which is at present the fashionable novel. It ...Anne Isabella Milbanke Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Annabella had [...] written to her aunt [Lady Melbourne; during autumn 1813], after having read the enlarged edition of the Giaour. "The description of Love almost make...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourPrint: Book
1800-1849Anne Isabella Milbanke to Lord Byron (1814): 'Your ode to Buonaparte was read in the company which I have just left. It was thought not perfectly lyrical -- of this I ...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord Byronode to Napoleon BonaparteUnknown
1800-1849'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book


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