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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
 
1900-1945'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson, Mr Cass & Mr Goadby...Allan Goadby Alfred, Lord TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (c. August 1802): 'Mama, my aunt, Corisande and Caro Ponsonby have been spending 2 or 3 days at Brocket Ha...William Lamb poetryPrint: Book
1800-1849'In Seaham village lived a poet, "an unfortunate child of Genius," -- one Joseph Blacket, a cobbler's son, whom [Anne Isabella Milbanke's] parents actively befriended. Wh...Anne Isabella Milbanke Joseph BlacketpoetryUnknown
1900-1945'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles The Love of a Nation The Tiger & the Lady Building Quaker Stories Henry Lawrence The...members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]PoetryManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:] 'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel were genuine; it is so long since...Elizabeth Carter Katherine PhillipspoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Two of your love poems are supremely beautiful - O let not words, the callous shell of thought & I will not say my life was sad and I like infinitely They owned the...Richard Monckton Milnes Richard Monckton MilnesPoetry for the PeoplePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding James Elroy FleckerPoetry of James Elroy FleckerPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an ...Mary Shelley Poetry of the Anti-JacobinPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We are on a long march and I’m writing this on the chance of getting it off; so you should know I received your papers and also your letter … The Poetry Review you s...Isaac Rosenberg Poetry ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we tele...Alfred Tennyson Anna SwanwickPoets, The Interpreters of the AgePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 November 1800: 'Wm. somewhat better [having been suffering from piles] -- read Point Rash Judgement.'William Wordsworth William WordsworthPoint Rash JudgementManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'The only books I have the opportunity of reading are ration and points books.' points booksPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"Coleridge's many notes to Jeremy Taylor's Polemicall Discourses include some addressed to the author directly ('A sophism, dearest Jeremy!'); some to the owner of the vo...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jeremy TaylorPolemicall DiscoursesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in "Polixandre".'Elizabeth Pepys Martin le Roy de GombervillePolexandrePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the police, that was just their name. They specialised in d...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Police BudgetPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the police, that was just their name. They specialised in d...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Police NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriPolinicePrint: Book
1800-1849'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dialogues of Plato, with the critical diligence of a jun...John Mitchel Aristotle?PoliteiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Get on but slowly with my translation of the "Politeia": and nearly repent that I began it; for I lack the energy and strength to go through with it. On some days I have...John Mitchel Aristotle?PoliteiaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, on childhood religious beliefs and practices, 15 January 1846: 'As to the [classical] gods and goddesses, I believed in them all ...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett William KingPolitical and Literary Anecdotes of His Own TimesPrint: Book


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