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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
 
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Matthew ArnoldPoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde John DrydenPoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Robert BurnsPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 23 December 1825: 'Sir Gilbert [the first Earl Minto] was indeed a man among a thousand. I knew him very intimately at the beginning of the century [...] He ...Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl MintopoemsUnknown
1850-1899'We have just had Oscar Wilde's incredible letter ... I read his poems and found, with disappointment, they were not even improper.'Robert Louis Stevenson Oscar WildePoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849From recollections of John Murray junior: 'Sometimes, though not often, Lord Byron read passages from his poems to my father. His voice and manner were very impressive...George Gordon Lord Byron George Gordon Lord ByronpoemsUnknown
1700-1799'[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from that time, deserted me. Mrs [Meribah] Lorrington freque...Meribah Lorrington Mary DarbypoemsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Lord Lyttleton] presented me with the works of Miss Aikin (now Mrs Barbauld). I read them with rapture; I thought them the most beautiful Poems I had ever seen, and con...Mary Robinson Anna Laetitia AikinPoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 May 1763:] 'Carlo Maggi is, indeed, a most excellent companion, and I agree with you in lamenting that one cannot recommend t...Elizabeth Carter Carlo MaggipoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849[From Charlotte Bronte's introduction to the 1850 edition of her sisters' novels:] 'One day in the autumn of 1845 I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume in verse in my...Charlotte Bronte Emily BrontepoemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[From Charlotte Bronte's introduction to the 1850 edition of her sisters' novels:] 'One day in the autumn of 1845 I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume in verse in my...Charlotte Bronte Anne BrontepoemsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945' I haven't quite finished Mrs Wharton. It's very good and readable as she always is I think. It was a great solace to me on the way. Also I had a volume of poems by Rupe...Gertrude Bell Rupert BrookePoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am still in the hospital and expect to be for at least two days more … Just now I don’t know where I can keep books. I have with me Donne’s poems and Brown’s “Reli...Isaac Rosenberg John DonnePoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Warsaw Review (the one where 3 years ago I've read translations of Tennyson) asks me to translate myself.'Joseph Conrad Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I owe you my best thanks for the gift of Mrs Cornford’s book of poems which I am delighted to have. I have been away in Wiltshire or would have thanked you sooner....William Henry Hudson Frances Crofts CornfordPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, late November 1838: 'I cannot return the [italics]Book of Beauty[end italics] to Miss Garrow without thanking her for allowing m...Elizabeth Barrett Theodosia Garrowpoems 'The Gazelles' and 'On Presenting a Young In...Print: Book
1700-1799The Dowager Lady Spencer to Mary Berry, from Nuneham (seat of George Simon, second Earl of Harcourt), 21 August 1799: 'Have you ever seen the 3d vol. of Mason's Poems, pu...G., Dowager Lady Spencer William MasonPoems (third volume)Print: Book
1850-1899'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again....Lord Lansdowne Caroline Clivepoems (unspecified)Print: Book
1900-1945'Read "Poems 1909-1925" by T.S. Eliot. I have never had any inclination to read Eliot's book but a whim prompted me to name it when Moll asked what book I'd like. I am af...William Soutar T.S. EliotPoems 1909-1925Print: Book
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1900-1945		'Annabel Huth Jackson recalls the impact of a copy of Swinburne's "Poems and Ballads" at Cheltenham Ladies' College: "half the house went mad over it and we copied out mo...Pupils at Cheltenham Ladies' CollegeAlgernon SwinburnePoems and BalladsPrint: Book


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