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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, mid-February 1840: 'Did you ever hear how poor Mr Reade has compromised himself with Fraser .. in the magazine? [...] how ...Elizabeth Barrett Review of William Reade's poems Italy and The Delu...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'All the mob of Potton made a great riot to celebrate the passing of the Reform Bill, and paraded the town with the most hideous yells, accompanying a triumphal car in th...Emily Shore  Print: flags
1800-1849'P.S. - I have seen no public notice of your book, except the advertisement a fortnight since.'Eleanor Anne Franklin Advertisement for Our Village: Sketches of Rural C...Print: Advertisement
1800-1849'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you why. It is one of those cheerful, spirited works, fu...Mary Howitt Advertisement for new edition of Mary Russell Mitf...Print: Advertisement
1800-1849'I saw it [praise of Joanna Baillie] in "Blackwood's" this present month, and with indignation too. I never deny the wonderful excellence of Joanna Baillie, but no one sh...Mary Howitt Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been reading William James on this very point - the worth ...Mary Augusta Ward biblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Lady Charlotte stopped a few days with friends near Winchester, and while there her husband read in The Times '"[...] of a wonderful discovery in the manufacture of i...Charles Schreiber article on new method of iron productionPrint: Newspaper
1850-189916 July 1857: 'Sitting alone at breakfast I took up the paper and saw in the military intelligence that Montague [son]'s regiment (2nd Batt. Rifle Brigade) was under o...Lady Charlotte Schreiber military intelligence columnPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thanks to the efficiency of Mr Kydd, we were overtaken here by a runner, and spent a pleasant half-hour in the shade reading letters from home, and the latest sensations...Frank Smythe newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to William Harness, February 1842: 'My poor father has passed this winter in a miserable state of health and spirits. His eyesight fails him no...Mary Russell Mitford daily newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 January 1842: 'I have won a sight of the Poetae Christiani -- but the price is ruinous -- [italics]fourteen guineas[end ita...Elizabeth Barrett Poetae Graeci Christiani, una cum Homericus Centon...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [....Elizabeth Barrett De legibusPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic]with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [...Elizabeth Barrett works attributed to PlatoPrint: Book
1900-1945'When I get home my noble aunt is reading the papers. At the time I was writing this the number of people reading the papers was more than usual.' newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There was one [thought like a hornet] zooming in The Times this morning - a woman's voice saying, "Women have not a word to say in politics".'Virginia Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Every day for a fortnight at the end of February, an observer brought a copy of the "Daily Mirror" into the canteen and handed it round among immediate neighbours (about... Daily MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Hundreds of men and women were standing on the stairs leading to the basement. They read newspapers, they chatted, they seemed strangely amiable.... I sat beside two wo... Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Hundreds of men and women were standing on the stairs leading to the basement. They read newspapers, they chatted, they seemed strangely amiable.... I sat beside two wo... Daily ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, ?27 March 1842: 'I remember a few years ago reading speeches by O'Connell in one of the Irish papers, which, with the faul...Mary Russell Mitford speeches of Daniel O'ConnellPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for trying [...] to suppress [italics]the saloons[end ita...Elizabeth Barrett Select Collection of Old PlaysPrint: Book


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