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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
 
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 CrabbeLibrary, ThePrint: Book
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 CrabbeVillage, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant o...Walter Scott George CrabbeVillage, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant o...Walter Scott George CrabbeLibrary, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant o...Walter Scott George CrabbePatron, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'My eldest girl begins to read well and enters as well into the humour as into the sentiment of your admirable descriptions of human life'Sophia Scott George CrabbeTales in versePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe had sent Scott, who already had one, a set of his works - he explained later that he'd intended it for Mrs Scott. Scott responded to the present,] to say the tru...Walter Scott George Crabbe[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe had sent Scott, who already had one, a set of his works - he explained later that he'd intended it for Mrs Scott. Scott responded to the present,] to say the tru...Walter Scott's childrenGeorge Crabbe[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Our lord of the "cairn & the scaur" waste wilderness and hundred hills for many a league around is the Duke of Buccleuch the head of my clan a kind & benevolent landlord...Charles William Montagu Scott and Harriet Katherine Townshend, Duke and Duchess of BuccleuchGeorge Crabbe[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849[Crabbe relates how he had fallen in love with Charlotte Williams and written her various letters, before she revealed she loved another] 'there was all this Time a Frien...Charlotte Ridout George Crabbe[letters from Crabbe to Charlotte Ridout's friend ...Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dost not remember this compliment, but I remember the i...Richard Shackleton George CrabbeVillage, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dost not remember this compliment, but I remember the i...Richard Shackleton George CrabbeLibrary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dost not remember this compliment, but I remember the i...Richard Shackleton George CrabbeNewspaper, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - ...Mary Leadbeter George CrabbeParish Register, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - ...Mary Leadbeter George CrabbeTales in VersePrint: Book
1800-1849'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - ...Mary Leadbeter George CrabbeBorough, thePrint: Book
1800-1849'I assure you she [Mrs Murray] was a Shield to me on the Night when I read my Verses.' [to Murray and others, prior to agreeing on their publication]George Crabbe George Crabbe[verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I received yours this Morning as I was reading pages 85-113 in the M.S.'George Crabbe George CrabbeTales from the HallManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can appl...George Crabbe George CrabbeLady BarbaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can appl...George Crabbe George CrabbeEllenPrint: Book


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