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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849
Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Think of the dignity and interest attached to a character, that can relish the pure pleasures of taste and beneficence, at a period of life...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
Letter to Mrs F----R. May 9 1800?? I declare, had I my pilgrimage to begin anew through the wilderness, I would not give my share of the endearing charities of life, my b...Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] Thomas GrayElegy written in a country churchyardPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria E...John Wilson Croker Charlotte Smith Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthian...Hugh Stuart Boyd St Chrysostom'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthi...Elizabeth Barrett St Chrysostom'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthi...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydAnnotations to St Chrysostom, 'In Epistolarum prim...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849
Benjamin Robert Haydon, in his Autobiography, mentions 'Liz', 'An attractive girl on the second floor of a house full of young men ... [who] attached herself to the par...Liz William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards [unknown][history]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards [unknown][great poets' works]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards Bayley[Dictionary]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843: 'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, -- to think that for 20 years of our earliest Frie...Benjamin Robert Haydon Benjamin Robert HaydonjournalManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849
The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I...Earl of Lonsdale Huxtable Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I...Earl of Lonsdale Virgil  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I...Earl of Lonsdale Mechi Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...Sarah Harriet Burney John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...Sarah Harriet Burney John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...[Miss] Wilbraham John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...[Miss] Wilbraham John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...Elizabeth Wilbraham John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book



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