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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
 
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Swedenborgian letters, which I had already seen and I ...Henry James Henry James Sr"Is Marriage Holy?"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of...George Gordon Lord Byron Marino Sanuto"Italian history of the Doges of Venice"Print: Book
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford "lady's book of praise of a solitary life"Print: Book
1900-1945'In all seriousness he [Victor Gollancz] could flaunt a prophetic grandeur, or perhaps simply uncontrolled showmanship, which would have been comic in less traumatic cont...Ralph Glasser Victor Gollancz"Let my people go": some practical proposals for d...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 31 March 1846:] 'I received the number of the Record you sent and despatched it forwards to Mr Young &c. am I right? I read D'Aubign...Charlotte Bronte Jean Henri Merle D'Aubigne"Letter"Print: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge"Life and Writings of Hesiod" Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871, describing life at family home: " ... I make a very pleasant life of it. I linger in a darkened room all the forenoon, reading...Henry James unknown"lightish books"Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1807 (re 20 August): 'After tea, Mr. Greathead, at my request, read to us his translation in verse of Boccaccio's "Lisabetta and her Brothe...Mr Greathead Greathead"Lisabetta and her Brothers" (verse translation af...Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1807 (re 20 August): 'After tea, Mr. Greathead, at my request, read to us his translation in verse of Boccaccio's "Lisabetta and her Brothe...Mary Berry Greathead"Lisabetta and her Brothers" (verse translation af...Unknown
1900-1945'Louis Untermeyer [an American poet] [...] had [...] been carried away by "Madeleine[in Church]" when Siegfried Sassoon read it to him [in 1920]'.Siegfried Sassoon Charlotte Mew"Madeleine in Church"Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1874): 'Lately we have been reading Holinshed and Froude's Mary, for A. has been thinking about a play of "Queen Mary," and has sketched...Alfred and Emily Tennyson Froude"Mary"Print: Book
1900-1945'After dinner, (a delicious dinner), Virginia read us her memoir of Old Bloomsbury. She had read it to me already at Saulieu, but I loved hearing it again; I want you to...Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf"memoir of Old Bloomsbury"Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 28 April 1809: 'In the morning I saw Joanna [Baillie]. She stayed nearly an hour with me. I read to her my "Notice upon Madame du D----'s Life," wi...Mary Berry Mary Berry"Notice upon Madame du D[effand]'s Life"Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 12 May 1809: 'This morning I had the Bishop of Rodez with me for nearly two hours. I read to him my preface and my "Notice on the Life [of Madame du...Mary Berry Mary Berry"Notice upon Madame du D[effand]'s Life"Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces 1805 letter from Mary Berry (writing as Catherine Fanshawe) to Catherine Fanshawe, in response to poem written by Fanshawe as Berry, and len...Mary Berry Catherine Fanshawe"Ode, by Mary Berry."Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e....Florence De Quincey James T. Fields"On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent Engl...Print: Book
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e....Thomas De Quincey James T. Fields"On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent Engl...Print: Book
1850-1899?Morley has accepted the "Fables" and I have seen it in proof and think less of it than ever.? Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson"On Lord Lytton's Fables in Song"Manuscript: Sheet, Proof of the article
1850-1899'I have the "PTFL" proof; and it is very fourth rate, I am afraid; not quite [italics] dead [end italics] you know, but ailing − very ailing.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson"On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places"Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay.
1800-1849'In a poor little struggling Unitarian periodical, the Monthly Repository [...] a youth, named Thomas Noon Talfourd, was about this time [1816] making [...] first attempt...Martineau familyThomas Noon Talfourd"On the System of Malthus"Print: Serial / periodical


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