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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
1850-1899
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"If that high World" - Byron', beginning 'If that high world -- which lies beyond Our own, survi...Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord Byron'If that high world'Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To Mary" - Byron', beginning 'RACK'D by the flames of jealous rage, By all her torments deeply cu...Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord ByronTo MaryUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines lines from the "Bride of Abydos" [Byron].Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Bridge of AbydosUnknown
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he be...Celia Burrow George Gordon, Lord ByronMazeppaPrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he be...Alfred Rawlings George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he be...Reginald Robson George Gordon, Lord Byron'Isles of Greece, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he be...Francis Pollard George Gordon, Lord ByronGiaour, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he be...Reginald Robson George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: 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
1850-1899'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor...Richard Pyke George Henry LewesHistory of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride & Prejudice" or "Tom Jones" than any of the Waverley ...Charlotte Bronte George Henry LewesletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 10 January 1850: 'I have received and perused the "Edinburgh Review" [containing negative review of "Shirley" by her friend G....Charlotte Bronte George Henry LewesReview of Charlotte Bronte, ShirleyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'G went at 8 and I spent the evening alone for the first time since we have been at Berlin. I read G's Farce - Robson's adventure with a Russian Princess'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[a farce]Manuscript: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the pas...George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[draft of Life of Goethe]Manuscript: Unknown, MS of Lewes' book
1850-1899'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewesbook in MS, perhaps his Life of GoetheManuscript: Unknown, book M.S.
1850-1899'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewespart of the MS of his Life of GoetheManuscript: Unknown, MS of book
1850-1899'Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesMS of his Life of GoetheManuscript: Unknown, MS of book
1850-1899'Read... G's article on Mad Dogs which he was going to send to Edinburgh'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[MS article on Mad Dogs]Manuscript: Sheet, MS of article
1850-1899'I am now in the middle of G's "Aristotle", which gives me great delight'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesAristotle, a Chapter from the History of ScienceManuscript: Sheet, prob. in MS as publ. 1864
1850-1899'in the evening I read G.'s article on Grote's Plato'.George Eliot [pseud.] George Henry Lewes[article on Grote's Plato]Manuscript: Unknown, ms of article



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