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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
 
1850-1899"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga...H. M. Swanwick Dante Gabriel Rossettipoems including JennyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the p...Tiddy Alfred Tennysonpoems including The RevengePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the p...Mary Stocks and siblingsAlfred Tennysonpoems including The RevengePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson discusses "sarcastic" marginal remarks by Samuel Parr in his copy of Poems by Mrs Pickering (1794), a volume including poems by John Morfitt and Joseph West...Samuel Parr Joseph Westonpoems including Written on Returning from Lichfiel...Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding M.M. WerePoems of Contemporary WomenPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of an amanuensis, letter postmarked 19 January 1843: 'Since I last wrote to you, the Poems of Darthula has been read t...Hugh Stuart Boyd James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian)Poems of DarthulaPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.'George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MoorePoems of the Late Thomas LittlePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.'George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MoorePoems of the Late Thomas LittlePrint: Book
1900-1945'I never feel any emotions now, except the great terrible desire always surging up to get away ... I was thinking a lot today of a book we had at school, Poems of To-d...Reginald Hugh Kiernan English Association Poems of To-day: An AnthologyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Whether it was owing to her own Desire, or the Envy of those who survived her, I know not; but of her various and beautiful Writings, except one poem of her's in Mrs [it...Laetitia Van Lewen Mary BarberPoems on Several OccasionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Madam, I am really ashamed of not having answered your very obliging and interesting letter, and not hving acknowledged the receipt of the pretty poem which you have don...Lord Holland Mary Russell MitfordPoems on the Female CharacterManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry Mackenzie) in praise of his Poems on Various Occasi...Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee George Gordon, Lord ByronPoems on Various OccasionsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry Mackenzie) in praise of his Poems on Various Occasi...Henry Mackenzie George Gordon, Lord ByronPoems on Various OccasionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lookd in the poems of Coleridge, Lamb and Loyde - Colridges monody on Chatterton is beautiful but his sonnets are not happy ones they seem to be a labour after exelence ...John Clare Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoems on Various SubjectsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John MiltonPoems upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, an...Print: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817: 'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he is delighted; and Mr. Canning, most particularly so w...George Gordon Lord Byronpoems [apparently including Childe Harold's Pilgri...Unknown
1900-1945'20th January, Thursday. Pat has given me a number of his poems for the ?Two Houses?. [a magazine of which Gerald Moore was the editor] I had to smile at finding again ...Gerald Moore George Eric Patersonpoems [unspecified]Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 11 July, 1797: 'Cottle brought with him the new edition of Coleridges poems, they are dedicated to his brothe[MS torn] George, in one of the m...Robert Southey S.T. ColeridgePoems, by S. T. Coleridge, Second Edition. To Whic...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Alfred TennysonPoems, Chiefly LyricalPrint: Book
1800-1849S. T. Coleridge on Tennyson's Poems. Chiefly Lyrical (1830): '"I have not read through all Mr Tennyson's poems, which have been sent to me; but I think there are some ...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alfred TennysonPoems, Chiefly LyricalPrint: Book


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