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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 The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the g...Harriet Countess Granville George HowardversesUnknown
1800-1849'Mutual Love Our Mutual Flame, inspires our bliss/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge HuddersfordSong: Mutual LoveUnknown
1700-1799'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (the 2 first of w'ch I had read before we left Chiche...John Marsh George KeateSketches from nature, taken and coloured on a jour...Print: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Tent Life in Siberia. -- Not a very new...Elizabeth Missing Sewell George KennanTent Life in SiberiaPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 23 September 1802: 'I am now going, my dearest G. (depending upon your secrecy), to transcribe for you so...Lady Harriet Cavendish George Lamb'John O'Thanet'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge George LavingtonThe Moravians compared and detectedPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale George LilloLondon Merchant, or the History of George BarnwellPrint: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale George LilloFatal Curiosity: A True Tragedy of Three ActsPrint: Book
1700-1799'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lillo never saw it there - the Charge of Plagiarism sho...Hester Lynch Thrale George LilloElmerick; Or Justice TriumphantPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:] 'Thank my stars, I have torn it this minute all to bits! What? Why a reflection upon the Vision, but that was...Catherine Talbot George Lord LytteltonThe VisionPrint: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George LytteltonThe History of the Life of King Henry the SecondPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 July 1767:] 'We are deep (for our after supper book) in Lord Lyttleton [i.e. his History of Henry II]. For my own amusement I ...Catherine Talbot and familyGeorge LytteltonHistory of the Life of Henry IIPrint: Book
1800-1849[Maria Branwell to her fiance, the Rev. Patrick Bronte, 5 December 1812:] 'Since I began this [letter] Jane put into my hands Lord Lyttleton's Advice to a Lady. When I...Maria Branwell George LytteltonAdvice to a LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899[Editorial commentary by Annie Coghill, Mrs Oliphant's cousin] 'George Macdonald's first book, or at any rate his first successful book, "David Elginbrod", had been publi...Margaret Oliphant George MacDonaldDavid ElginbrodManuscript: MS of a book
1850-1899"Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald."Agnes Blanche Hemming George MacDonaldAlec Forbes of HowglenPrint: Book
1850-1899"Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'".Agnes Blanche Hemming George MacDonaldAlec Forbes of HowglenPrint: Book
1850-1899'Elinor Glyn recalled "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872) being read to her as a child ...'Elinor Glyn George MacDonaldThe Princess and the GoblinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield George MacdonaldThe Princess and the GoblinPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was through the reading of his narrative poem, "Within and Without" (published in 1855, but written a few years earlier), that their acquaintance began. She wrote to ...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron George MacdonaldWithin and WithoutPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I sat down to read "the Vicar's Daughter" & got so interested in it that I began to read tit bits aloud. Polly who was very tired got interested also & pr...John Buckley Castieau George MacDonaldThe Vicar's DaughterPrint: Book


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