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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
 
1800-1849I remember so well its first publication, my mother and sisters crying over it, dwelling upon it with rapture! And when I read it, as I was a girl of fourteen not yet ver...Lady Louisa Stuart Henry MackenzieThe Man of FeelingPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was unable to work for a fortnight through lameness... While laid by from work, I read Mr. MacKenzie's "Man of Feeling" and other tales. I thought them a little too hi...Thomas Carter Henry MackenzieMan of Feeling and other talesPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 4-20 April 1793: 'I have lately read the Man of Feeling — if you have never yet read it — do now from my recommendation — few...Robert Southey Henry MackenzieThe Man of FeelingPrint: Book
1800-1849'read greek - read Mackenzies works'Mary Shelley Henry Mackenzie[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Here is Mr Mackensie - with the Surprise I heard it - the Author of "the Man of Feeling" & indeed he is so called.'George Crabbe Henry MackenzieMan of Feeling, ThePrint: Book
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1800-1849		'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.Louisa, Lady Stuart Henry MackenzieMan of Feeling, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closely. Thus, in No. 16,-- "The effects of the return o...James Boswell Henry Mackenzie[imitation of Johnson]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feeling and my last Paper (with great estimation) in the...Margaret Carlyle Henry MackenzieThe Man of FeelingPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 5 December 1825: 'Dined at the Royal Society Club where as usual was a pleasant meeting of from 20 to 25. It is a very good institution. We pay two guineas only...Henry Mackenzie Henry Mackenzie'Essay on Dreams' (extract)Unknown
1800-1849'Now hating to deal with ladies when they are in an unreasonable humour I have got the goodhumoured Man of Feeling to find out the lady's mind and I take on myself the ta...Walter Scott Henry MackenzieThe Man of FeelingPrint: Book
1800-1849A rare thing this literature or love of fame or notoriety which accompanies it. Here is Mr H.M. [Henry Mackenzie] on the very brink of human dissolution as actively anxi...Walter Scott Henry Mackenzie Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1820, about books received: 'the diary of an Invalid good and true bating a few mistakes about "Serventismo" which no foreigner can understa...George Gordon Lord Byron Henry MatthewsDiary of an InvalidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - Diary of an Invalid'Mary Shelley Henry MatthewsDiary of an Invalid; being the Journal of a Tour.....Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 5 February 1851:

'Those papers on the London Poor are singularly interesting; to me they open a new and strange world, ve...		Charlotte Brontë Henry MayhewLondon Labour and the London PoorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'fine imagery, but is too speculative'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Henry MelvillSermon on the AscensionPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'loud... parts of it forcibly stated, but too inflamatory'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Henry MelvillSermon on Protestantism and PoperyPrint: Book
1800-1849'elaborate, striking, almost too glaring'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Henry MelvillSermon on the Doctrine of the ResurrectionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had read it first to nearly the very same people after my Father's illness in 1844; it is only less beautiful than practical & useful'G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Henry MelvillSermon on the Proportion of Grace to TrialPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'In the face of such topics, how can I grovel any longer? Do I not feel the thraldom & restlessness of worldly ambitions… Lord, save me from double-mindedness'G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Henry MelvillSermon on the ResurrectionPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Barclay Hudson, an American living near by, lent him a new novel to read. It was published in Paris by the Obelisk Press, a publisher specializing mainly in pornography ...Lawrence Durrell Henry MillerTropic of CancerPrint: Book


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