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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
 
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin George Gissing[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The Book Club members were evidently in no mood to aprec...Charles Stansfield George GissingPrivate Papers of Henry Rycroft, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The Book Club members were evidently in no mood to aprec...Howard R. Smith George GissingNew Grub StreetPrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The Book Club members were evidently in no mood to aprec...Henry Marriage Wallis George GissingOdd Women, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The Book Club members were evidently in no mood to aprec...Ernest E. Unwin George Gissing Print: Book
1900-1945'About "The Crown of Life", It is almost the only one of G. G. [George Gissing]'s books I haven’t read. It didn’t appeal to me—it was not a good Gissing book. Just ...William Henry Hudson George GissingWill WarburtonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am disgusted with myself for letting so long a time pass before thanking you for the Gissing book ["The House of Cobwebs and other stories"], as I suppose it was...William Henry Hudson George GissingThe House of Cobwebs and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am disgusted with myself for letting so long a time pass before thanking you for the Gissing book ["The House of Cobwebs and other stories"], as I suppose it was...William Henry Hudson George GissingThe Private Papers of Henry RyecroftPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwithstanding all the charms of fashion, I read more o...John Wilson Croker George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 September 1816: 'I have read with great pleasure the poem you lent me [Childe Harold III]. It is written with great vigour, and...John Wilson Croker George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold IIIUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked his way through [...] included adventure stories suc...Christopher Thomson George Gordon, Lord ByronpoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley (whose jobs included winding bobbins and working as...Benjamin Brierley George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and Burns whilst on '"solitary walks on summer evenings"...Benjamin Brierley George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 20 August 1814: 'Lord Rosslyn read to us "Lara," Lord Byron's new tale. It strongly marks his manner of thinking and writing. It is a sort of conti...James Alexander, second Earl of Rosslyn George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 30 August 1817, from Genoa: 'Mr. Wishaw leaves to-morrow for Florence. I showed him a sketch of the beginning for "The Life of Lady Russell," which ...Mr Wishaw George Gordon, Lord Byronjournal of travels in Switzerland (extracts)Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 15 September 1819: 'Thank you for the perusal of the letter; it is not very good, but it will vex these old women of British criti...John Wilson Croker George Gordon, Lord Byron'Letter to the Editor of My Grandmother's Review'Unknown
1800-1849'Saturday Sept. 17th [...] Dine at 1/2 past six [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama. They [i.e. P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go to Bed at ten...Claire Clairmont George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Jany -- 5th. [...] Read Mazeppa.'Claire Clairmont George Gordon, Lord ByronMazeppaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817: 'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair &c how foolish I have been not to read them before ...Elizabeth Barrett George Gordon, Lord ByronWorks including The CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817: 'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair &c how foolish I have been not to read them before ...Elizabeth Barrett George Gordon, Lord ByronReviews of the CorsairPrint: Serial / periodical


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