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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
 
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'What a pity [Tennyson] has not the intense vigour of Robert Browning -- I still believe as devoutly as ever in P...Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847: 'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often than any thing else in verse'.Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1900-1945'L[eonard]W[oolf] had undertaken to write a play for the "X" Society, which had recently read Robert Browning's Paracelsus.'The 'X' SocietyRobert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able t...Albert Battiscombe Thomas MooreParadise and the PeriPrint: Book
1850-1899'If Clynes needed a second lesson in the subversive power of print, it came when his foreman nearly sacked him for sneaking a look at "Paradise Lost" during a work break ...J.R. Clynes John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'I often think of the happy evening when, by your fireside, my Brother read to us the first book of the Paradise lost ... 'William Wordsworth John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford them no, for I have no wish to incur any extraneous exp...anon John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson (12 November 1810) with description of three nights' stay during October (c.26-29) 1810 at Hackett (overlooking Langdale a...William Wordsworth John MiltonParadise LostUnknown
1800-1849'During his stay with the Beaumonts at Coleorton, 30 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1806, W[ordsworth] gave several readings from Paradise Lost - including Book I and Book VI, lines 767-...William Wordsworth John MiltonParadise LostUnknown
1800-1849'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...Joseph Barker John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899[Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Mammon (figurative) description of, Paradise Lost, Book 1, line 680'.Edward Davy Harrop John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson discusses copy of Paradise Lost annotated by John Keats for Mrs Dilke, in which passages highlighted and critical commentary added.John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'There is a pleasant story of how [Aunt Cara] once set a Jebb niece to read "Paradise Lost" aloud to herself and her sister Aunt Polly, in order to improve Aunt Polly's m...[unknown] Jebb John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. In the even read the 9th book of "Paradise Lost".'Thomas Turner John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the 10th book of "Paradise Lost" in the even.'Thomas Turner John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'in the Even Tho. Davy at our House to whom I read the 4th Book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".'Thomas Turner John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read the 6th book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".'Thomas Turner John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read the 12th and last book of Milton's "Paradise Lost", which I have now read twice through and in my opinion it exceeds anything I ever read for sublimity ...Thomas Turner John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book


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