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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'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outlines” in this month’s "Cornhill" − poems which have...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyNotes on the FirthManuscript: Sheet, Unknown
1850-1899'Many thanks. I have received the 15 quid, and the "Portfolio" proof.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonNotes on the Movements of Young Children.Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson ColeridgeNotes on the Reform BillPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I had just been reading, when your letter came, Taine's Graindorge, of which you speak .....Henry James Hippolyte TaineNotes sur Paris, Vie et opinions de M. Frederic-Th...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the "Ave Maria", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... dined, and turned over yr. notes.'George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonNotes to (?) Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines Occ...Unknown
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes' [...] Voisey at tea [...] Departs about 1/2 past ten -- M...Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyNotes to Queen MabUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829: 'I never learnt anything about the rule [...] of the Greek Article, -- except what I learnt from [italics]you[end it...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart Boydnotes to the AgamemnonPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown] Notice des tableaux exposes au Musee d'AnversUnknown
1800-1849"It so happened that a retired Scotch physician, who had settled in the town, chanced to read this notice, and, interested in all related to his gifted countryman [Burns]...a Scotch physician Falcon Harmonic Society Notice of a Burns SupperPrint: Poster
1900-194520 April 1920: 'Saw the birth of Ka's son in the Times this morning, & feel slightly envious all day in consequence.'Virginia Woolf Notice of birth of Mark Arnold-FosterPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Only yesterday morning he [Cyril Oliphant] was well enough to read out to me [Francis Oliphant] a little notice of his De Musset which appeared in Willie Tulloch's littl...Cyril Oliphant Notice of Cyril Oliphant's 'De Musset'Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 17 May 1843: '[David Wilkie] was amiable & affectionate -- and when I read [of] his Death, (I was at Dover) I felt as if...Benjamin Robert Haydon notice of death of David Wilkie (on 1 June 1841)Print: Newspaper
1900-194527 June 1918: 'At the Club yesterday I picked up the Times & read of Aunt Minna's death 2 days ago at Lane End [...] She was in her 91st year. A more composed, & outwar...Virginia Woolf notice of death of Sarah Emily DuckworthPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Tuesday 20 September 1927: 'I opened the Morning Post & read the death of Philip Ritchie [...] I think for the first time, I felt this death leaves me an elderly laggard;...Virginia Woolf Notice of death of the Hon. Philip Charles Thomson...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'[Henry Fothergill Chorley] had seen a notice of the Brownings' marriage that appeared in the 28 September 1846 issue of Galignani's Messenger, an English-language news...Henry Fothergill Chorley notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849John Forster to Sarianna Browning, 21 September 1846: 'You cannot imagine the surprise with which I saw this morning's announcement [of Robert Browning, Sarianna's b...John Forster Notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I fi...James Watson notice of political meetingPrint: Poster
1800-1849Mary Berry to 'a friend at Paris,' October, 1835: 'I have read with much attention the "notice" on the life of M. Gouthier that you lent me at Paris, and on which you ask...Mary Berry unknownNotice on life of M. GouthierPrint: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'Just now I sit in the N[ational]. G[allery]. having studied a notice that instructs me to "attack" a petrol bomb wi...Edward Morgan Forster notice on wartime safety measuresPrint: ?poster ('notice')
1800-1849Byron to Madame Sergent-Marceau, 5 May 1823 (translated from Italian): 'no present you might give me would be more welcome than the short work in which the actions of you...George Gordon Lord Byron Antoine Francois Sergent-MarceauNotices Historiques sur le General MarceauPrint: Book


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