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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[Letter, 22 November 1813]

'I have just been reading Anne Caldwell's play and am delighted with it.'		Jessie Allen Anne CaldwellUnknownUnknown
1800-1849[Letter 22 November 1813]

'I want to read again Miss Baillie's ''Hope'',which I thought the prettiest of her compositions ...'		Jessie Allen Joanna BaillieHopePrint: Book
1800-1849

[Letter 24 March 1814]
'''The Wanderer'' is to be out on Monday. It is the most interesting novel I have ever read.'

Fanny Allen Frances D'ArblayThe WandererPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Letter]

'And now to tell you my opinion of the ''Corsair''. I think it beautiful beyond all his other works.'		Elizabeth Wedgwood George Gordon, Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Letter]

'Here is a very pleasant letter from Sally to you, which we thought it was a pity should go for nothing, and so we opened it, and so we read it.'		Elizabeth Wedgwood Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood[Letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I think I have never written to you since I read ''Glenarvon''. I agree with you in admiring it exceedingly in some respects [...] I almost think that as a picture of th...Sarah Wedgwood Caroline, Lady LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading a pamphlet by Mr Coleridge, which he calls ''The Statesman's Manual, a Lay Sermon.''... I do think I never did read such stuff as the sermon, such an...Sarah Wedgwood Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Statesman's Manual, a Lay SermonPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'We have been reading the new edition of Wordsworth's poetry, in which there are several new things.'Sarah Wedgwood and the Miss AllensWilliam WordsworthUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter, Summer 1867]

'I took the ''Lancashire Wedding or Darwin moralized'' to read in the carriage. The moral is that it is not wise to give up a pretty, poo...		Emma Darwin anonThe Lancashire Wedding or Darwin MoralizedPrint: Book
1800-1849'James Montgomery, Esq., a poet of great merit, edited at this period the Sheffield Iris, a paper of wide circulation, and penned a most flattering review of “Airedale,...James Montgomery John NicholsonAiredale in Ancient Times, Elwood and Elvina, The ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I lay all day upstairs on the sofa groaning and grumbling and reading ''The Last Days of Pompeii''.'Charles Darwin Edward Bulmer LyttonThe Last Days of PompeiiPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think Anne's 'Tales' particularly interesting ... I prefer the first, there is greater purity and far greater truth. 'The Admiral's Daughter' is deficient in both thes...Jessie Sismondi Anne Marsh CaldwellTwo Old Men's Tales: The deformed and The Admiral'...Print: Book
1800-1849'Fanny has just been reading a little of one of Jeffrey's reviews of Wordworth...'Fanny Wedgwood Francis Jeffrey[Review of Wordsworth]Print: Serial / periodical, Edinburgh Review
1800-1849'I have just received my dear Mackintosh's 'History of the Revolution' ... I cannot read it with quiet nerves.'Jessie Sismondi James MackintoshHistory of the Revolution in England in 1688Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read, since being here, Evelyn's Life of Mrs Godolphin; it is very pretty, but she is too virtuous and too nun-like...'Charles Darwin John EvelynThe Life of Mrs GodolphinPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have since been reading in The Lady of the Lake, and this passage reminds me of our voyage: — "See the proud pipers on the bow, And mark the gaudy streamers flow...Queen Victoria Sir Walter ScottLady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849'It poured the whole afternoon, and, after writing, I read to Albert the three first cantos of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, which delighted us both.'Queen Victoria Sir Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'At two o'clock we passed the famed St. Abb's Head, which we had so longed to see on our first voyage to Scotland. I read a few stanzas out of Marmion, giving an account ...Queen Victoria Sir Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'We went below at half-past seven, and I read the fourth and fifth cantos of The Lay of the Last Minstrel to Albert, and then we played on the piano.' Queen Victoria Sir Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'We breakfasted with Miss Seymour; 36 and, after writing and reading, we started at a quarter to eleven with her and our Highland party.'Queen Victoria unknownunknownPrint: Unknown


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