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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
 
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Bruton Street, 3 January 1824: 'We landed here at half-past three yesterday, dined tete-a-tete w...Lord and Lady Granville (Granville and Harriet Leveson Gower)  Print: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from St Omer, 27 February 1824: 'You have no idea what a comfort and pleasure it is to me to have you...Harriet Countess Granville 'little book upon prayer'Manuscript: Unknown, Copied in MS.
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague, 22 April 1824: 'Here is again the most delicious spring weather. I wish you could see...Granville Leveson Gower French newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the g...Harriet Countess Granville Basil HallJournal in South AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the g...Harriet Countess Granville Basil HallJournal in South AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the g...Harriet Countess Granville George HowardversesUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 5 December 1824: 'It amused me to open a new volume of Mme. Campan's journal at these wor...Harriet Countess Granville Madame CampanJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 17 February 1825: 'I feel already the hundred comforts of the [Mardi Gras] carnival being...Harriet Countess Granville SegurLife of BuonapartePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 1 August 1825: 'I have begun reading the Bible with notes regularly. I always liked what ...Harriet Countess Granville BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister Georgiana, Lady Carlisle, 5 December 1825: 'We are much shocked to see in "Galignani" an account of the poor Duchess [of Rutla...Lord and Lady Granville (Granville and Harroet Leveson Gower) report of Duchess of Rutland's deathPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Sunday, 20 November 1825 (first entry): 'I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular [journal] [...] I have bethought me on seeing lately some volumes...Walter Scott George Gordon Lord ByronmemorandaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Monday, 5 December 1825: 'Dined at the Royal Society Club where as usual was a pleasant meeting of from 20 to 25. It is a very good institution. We pay two guineas only...Henry Mackenzie Henry Mackenzie'Essay on Dreams' (extract)Unknown
1800-1849Thursday, 8 December 1825: 'Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since [...] succeeding to good farms under the Duke of Buccleuch [he]...Walter Scott William KnoxThe Lonely HearthUnknown
1800-1849Thursday, 8 December 1825: 'Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since [...] succeeding to good farms under the Duke of Buccleuch [he]...Walter Scott William Knox'Spiritual hymns'Unknown
1800-1849Friday, 9 December 1825: 'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson [...] She must have been assis...Walter Scott Harriet WilsonMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 23 December 1825: 'Sir Gilbert [the first Earl Minto] was indeed a man among a thousand. I knew him very intimately at the beginning of the century [...] He ...Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl MintopoemsUnknown
1800-1849Sunday, 12 February 1826; 'Read a few pages of Will d'Avenant who was fond of having it supposed that Shakespeare intrigued with his mother. I think the pretension c...Walter Scott William Davenant Print: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 19 February 1826; 'Being troubled with thick-coming fancies and a slight palpitation of the heart I have been reading the Chronicle of the Good Knight Messir...Walter Scott G. ChastellainVie de Jacques de LalainePrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 23 February 1826: 'Read a little volume called the OMEN very well written, deep and powerfull language [...] it is [John Gibson] Lockhart or I am strangely...Walter Scott John GaltThe OmenPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 2 March 1826: 'Slept indifferently and dreamd of Napoleon's last moments and last illness of which I was reading a medical account last night by Dr. Arnott...Walter Scott Dr ArnottAn Account of the Last Illness, Decease, etc. of N...Print: Book


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