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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
 
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850: 'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I never should have seen it probably, for my husband ...Robert Browning John Westland MarstonReview of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850: 'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I never should have seen it probably, for my husband ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning John Westland MarstonReview of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828: 'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] They are the only ones I have [italics]seen[end italic...Elizabeth Barrett anonReview of Elizabeth Barrett, An Essay on Mind with...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828: 'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] They are the only ones I have [italics]seen[end ital...Elizabeth Barrett anonReview of Elizabeth Barrett, An Essay on Mind with...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'Think of the Westminster Review [...] commending me for "moral courage" on account of the sonnets to Ma...Edward Moulton-Barrett Review of Elizabeth Barrett, Poems (1844)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I return you the Quarterly Reveiw [sic] with many Thanks. The Authoress of "Emma" has no reason I think to complain of her treatment in it - except in the total omission...Jane Austen Walter Scott [anon]review of EmmaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'George, George, you are detected, and if you do not immediately drink a bottle of Burgundy (to my health and Pepys's) you will certainly be damned.'Robert Louis Stevenson George SaintsburyReview of Familiar Studies in Pall Mall GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Fanny Kemble to John Murray (1832): 'The article in the Quarterly on my "Francis the First," more than satisfied me, for it made me out a great deal cleverer than ever...Fanny Kemble MilmanReview of Fanny Kemble, Francis the FirstPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Sir Francis Knight to John Murray (1839): 'I was glad [...] to hear the child's voice crying in the Times this morning. The extract [from his work] was the very best t...Francis Head Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administ...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Sir Francis Knight to John Murray, 5 March 1839: 'What is most extraordinary is the article in my favour which lately appeared in the Globe. That paper, after defendin...Francis Head Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administ...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849George Borrow to John Murray junior, 31 December 1842: 'With respect to the critique [of his The Bible in Spain] in the Times, I fully agree with you that it was har...George Borrow Review of George Borrow, The Bible in SpainPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849George Borrow to John Murray junior, 31 December 1842: 'With respect to the critique [of his The Bible in Spain] in the Times, I fully agree with you that it was har...George Borrow Review of George Borrow, The Bible in SpainPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849George Borrow to John Murray, 25 February 1843: 'I have seen the article in the Edinburgh about the Bible [in Spain] -- exceedingly brilliant and clever, but rather ...George Borrow Review of George Borrow, The Bible in SpainPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Your "Daniel Deronda" is uncommonly jolly, and right. I don’t know that you’ve ever written anything which pleased me so much. You might have pitched it stronger about t...Robert Louis Stevenson Sydney ColvinReview of George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817: 'In acknowledging the arrival of the article from the Quarterly, which I received two days ago, I cannot express myself better tha...Augusta Leigh Walter ScottReview of George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'do you ever read the Augustan Review it is stupid though[underlined] it thinks me so - & yet be afraid I like it because it takes[?] the thing [Glenarvon] fairly & not a...Lady Caroline Lamb [unknown]Review of Glenarvon in the Augustan ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderbu...George Gordon Lord Byron anonreview of Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, Dichtung und W...Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I gather from a review that the conclusion of the book has not been printed in the Fortnightly?& this the most interesting part of the book. For this reason I should li...Arnold Bennett unknownReview of H.G. Wells' The First Men on the MoonPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 19 or 26 March 1875: "I read this morning your notice of A Passionate Pilgrim ... If kindness could kill I should be safely out of th...Henry James William Dean Howellsreview of Henry James, A Passionate PilgrimPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 February 1876: "Why won't you tell me the name of the author of the very charming notice of Roderick Hudson in the last Atlantic, w...Henry James anonReview of Henry James, Roderick HudsonPrint: Serial / periodical



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