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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'[Henry Fothergill Chorley] had seen a notice of the Brownings' marriage that appeared in the 28 September 1846 issue of Galignani's Messenger, an English-language news...Henry Fothergill Chorley notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 7 January 1847: 'If it were not for the Bible & Shakespeare, we might say seriously that we had not seen a rea...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning SieclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847: 'I see by the "Siecle" that Balzac's works are coming out in a complete edition arranged by hims...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Advertisement for edition of Honore de Balzac, Com...Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16-21 May 1847: 'I went a week ago into Wilson's room & stood by the table in my lazy careless way, turning ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Italian grammarPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16-21 May 1847: 'I went a week ago into Wilson's room & stood by the table in my lazy careless way, turning ...Elizabeth Wilson Italian grammarPrint: Book
1800-1849Sir W. Follett to John Wilson Croker, from Paris, 6 October 1840: 'We saw in Galignani yesterday that George Giffard [Follett's brother-in-law, and a ward of Croker's]...Sir W. Follett Galignani['s Messenger?]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849John Forster to Sarianna Browning, 21 September 1846: 'You cannot imagine the surprise with which I saw this morning's announcement [of Robert Browning, Sarianna's b...John Forster Notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett...Print: Newspaper
1850-18995 March 1853: 'At 6 I went down again to the [workmen's] Room and to my surprise found the library finished and furnished, the refreshments all about and everything lo...Dowlais Iron Company workers  Print: Newspaper
1850-189919 March 1853: 'I turned into the workmen's Room for a moment [...] About a dozen men were enjoying the smoking room. Maria [Lady Charlotte's daughter] counted 50 in t...Dowlais Iron Company workers  Print: Book
1800-1849'I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page to page, with unwearied interest and entertainment. I...Sarah Harriet Burney [Reviews in the Quarterly Review of Bishop Heber's...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 1 October 1905: 'We have had visitors for the last 4 weeks [...] I have written quite a lot [...] Also I have read a good deal,...Virginia Stephen eighteenth-century textsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall on printed matter, so long denied us by our own wri...Virginia Woolf 'new novels'Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to his wife, whilst in Oxford for the installation of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of the University, 12 June 1834: 'The dinner at Christ Ch...John Wilson Croker  Print: Unknown
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916: 'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], and wondering whether all his rant has made a scra...Virginia Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
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1900-1945		Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918: 'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I understand anything they say; also I have read the whol...Virginia Woolf classical Greek literaturePrint: Book
1850-1899'[Mrs Ward writes to Mr Buxton about Sidney Webb's idea for a Factory Act for east London, and comments] I find the same thing foreshadowed in various other things on Fac...Mary Augusta Ward [papers on Factory Law]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'[Mrs Ward] regularly put herself to school to learn every detail of the system of sweated home work prevalent in the East End of London at that time; wading through pile...Mary Augusta Ward [blue books of statistics]Print: Book
1850-1899'Today I have been to church which has not improved my temper I must own. The clergyman did his best to make me hate him and I took refuge in that admirable poem, The Son...Robert Louis Stevenson Bible, O.T., Judges, Chapter 5.Print: Book, Bible or possibly prayerbook
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 3 May 1934: 'We only got the Times yesterday and read about George [Duckworth]. Well, there's nothing much to be said at this distanc...Virginia Woolf report of death of Sir George DuckworthPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers gazed, and I felt like -- who's the man in the bi...Virginia Woolf The BiblePrint: Book


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