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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 told Murray to tell you that I read his journal with sorrow & perhaps with anger'.Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord Byron[Memoirs]Manuscript: Unknown
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 Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever seen". When he refused to give it up, the warder said h...Arthur Symons George Gordon Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'On March 15 [1812] [...] [Anne Isabella Milbanke] dined at Lady Melbourne's [...] [William Lamb] may have been genuinely tired of the principal topic as recorded in Anna...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (cantos I and II)Print: Book
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon Lord Byron[Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'Try, by way of change, Byron?s "Mazeppa", you will be astonished. It is grand and no mistake, and one sees through it a fire, and a passion, and a rapid intuition of gen...Robert Louis Stevenson George Gordon Lord ByronMazeppaPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
1800-1849'Annabella had [...] written to her aunt [Lady Melbourne; during autumn 1813], after having read the enlarged edition of the Giaour. "The description of Love almost make...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourPrint: Book
1800-1849Anne Isabella Milbanke to Lord Byron (1814): 'Your ode to Buonaparte was read in the company which I have just left. It was thought not perfectly lyrical -- of this I ...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord Byronode to Napoleon BonaparteUnknown
1800-1849'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'[John] Murray [Byron's publisher] sent an advance-copy of the new Harold. She [Lady Byron] read the imprecation, supposed to be spoken in the Colosseum: '"... Let me ...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III)Print: Book
1800-1849'Early in July [1819] appeared the first part of Don Juan. "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected, wrote Annabella [Anne Isabella, Byron's estranged wife]....Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Moore had owned that the Memoirs [of Byron] were of "such a low pot-house description" that [John Murray] could not have published them'Thomas Moore George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate p...Lord John Russell George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate p...Lord Holland George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate p...Lord Rancliffe George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in The Giaour, the Fare thee well, and the Satire. Wi...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in The Giaour, the Fare thee well, and the Satire. Wi...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord Byron'Fare thee well' (lyric verses)Print: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in The Giaour, the Fare thee well, and the Satire. Wi...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord Byron'the Satire'Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 22 July 1819: 'I think parts of "Don Juan" more beautiful than anything he has written, some wit and...Harriet Countess Granville George Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book


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