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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 have not done much with the Sermons you sent me nor after the Bristol Huricanes Would you expect it, still I have not been altogether idle, for vamping old Sermons is ...George Crabbe George Crabbe[sermons]Manuscript: Unknown
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1800-1849		'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.Louisa, Lady Stuart George Crabbe[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as well as his obliging service to authours, were ready as...Samuel Johnson George CrabbeVillage, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as well as his obliging service to authours, were ready as...James Boswell George CrabbeVillage, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of '"Crabbe's Paris Register" - Burials', beginning '"True, I'm a sinner", feebly he begins/ "But ...George CrabbeParish RegisterPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Then died lamented in the strength of life 1827 "Called not away, when time had loosed each hold/ On the fond ...C.M.G. [anon] George CrabbeThe Mother's FuneralPrint: Book
1800-1849'Out of a considerable quantity of garbage which I have allowed myself, at different intervals, to devour, I have only to mention Crabbes Poems as worthy of being read. I...Thomas Carlyle George CrabePoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Evening's daughter'; [text] 'Come, evening gale! The crimson rose/ Is drooping for thy sigh of dew/ The Hyacinth woos...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine George CrolyEvening's daughterPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'The Late Queen of Russia on seeing Her Bust in the King's Chamber in 1812' 'Thour't gone from us, to weep no more...'Bowly groupGeorge CrolyThe Late Queen of Russia on Seeing Her Bust in the...Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George DarleySylvia or the May QueenPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 March 1840: 'I [italics]have[end italics] Sylvia or the May Queen among my books in London. Dont you remember telling ...Elizabeth Barrett George DarleySylvia; or, The May QueenPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1840: 'Have you given up the idea of seeing Mr Darley's book again -- It chaperons or is chaperoned by some Devonshir...Elizabeth Barrett George DarleyThomas a BecketPrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] George DennisCities and Cemeteries of Etruria, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the merry beggars. Elvira'Mary Shelley George DigbyElvira; or, the worst not always truePrint: Book
1850-1899In the BL copy: Written in margin of "Paper: Its Applications and its Novelties" p16 'In 1853 the sum of #4000 was at last paid to Mr Archer for his process -- and stamps...George DoddCuriosities of IndustryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read the fist Realistic Scotch Novel?The House with the Green Shutters? It is not first class but it is glorious after Barrie, Maclaren, Crockett & Co. You se...Arnold Bennett George Douglas (pseud. of George Douglas Brown, 1869-1902)The House with the Green ShuttersPrint: Book
1850-1899'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's "Trilby". It...John Masefield George du MaurierTrilbyPrint: Book
1850-1899'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I needed an inner life". From "Peter Ibbetson" he learned o...John Masefield George du MaurierPeter IbbetsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Quarter was gleaned not from Flaubert, only from thir...Victor Sawdon Pritchett George du Maurier[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Mary E. Robson George du MaurierTrilbyPrint: Book


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