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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
 
1900-1945'In 1910, when Alfred Noyes's "Collected Poems" came out [...] [Charlotte Mew] read his "The Old Sceptic" and reflected that as far as sentiment went, she might have writ...Charlotte Mew Alfred Noyes"The Old Sceptic"Print: Book
1900-1945'After refreshment Geo Burrow told us of Meinholt's [sic] book "The Amber Witch" & of witchcraft & Howard R. Smith read a story written by H.M. Wallis who was unable to ...Howard R. Smith Henry Marriage Wallis"The Price of his Soul"Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'May 18th. A. read the "San Graal." I doubt whether the "San Graal" would have been written but for my endeavour, and the Queen's ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson"The San Graal"Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'... as we drifted gaily down the sparkling river [Tigris] in perfect autumnal weather, I thought of Browning's [italics] Wanderers [end italics] .... For on my kelek I h...William Collis Spackman Robert Browning"The Wanderers"Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Hunter (aged 10) to Elizabeth Barrett, quoted in letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1837: '"I read today in a magazine a tale of Miss Mi...Mary Hunter Mary Russell Mitford"The Widow's Dog"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have just been reading The Wife which pleases me greatly. I do not know which story I like best - They both contain such true observations - thoughts that come home to...Mary Shelley Caroline Norton"The Wife" and "Woman's Reward"Print: Book
1900-1945'"The censorship here is so close that I depend for most of my information upon "Time" and "Life"," I wrote to New York that summer.'Vera Brittain "Time" Magazine Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolAlice Meynell"To A Daisy"Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer ...Alfred Tennyson Petrarch "Trionfo della Morte"Unknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Adrian Johns notes 17th-century bookseller Thomas Bennett (d. 1706)'s practice of reading "'Useful Discourses'" to his servants every Sunday.Thomas Bennett "useful Discourses"Print: Unknown
1850-1899'"Victor Hugo" has come; I like all your alterations vastly, except one which I don?t like, tho? I own something was needed there also.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson"Victor Hugo's Romances"Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances?
1850-1899'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".'George Eliot [pseud.] Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse"Vier Neue Novellen"Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Having now, I believe, fairly passed through between New Holland and New Guinea, and having an open sea to the westward, so that to-morrow we intend to steer more to the...Joseph Banks William Dampier"Voyage Round the World" or "Voyage to New Holland...Print: Book
1700-1799'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "Sanjuis draconis", as possibly also that which Tasman s...Joseph Banks William Dampier"Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland...Print: Book
1700-1799'All the shoals that were dry at half ebb afforded plenty of fish, left dry in small hollows of the rocks, and a profusion of large shell-fish (Chama gigas) such as Dampi...Joseph Banks William Dampier"Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland...Print: Book
1700-1799'In the evening a small bird of the noddy (Sterna) kind hovered about the ship, and at night settled on the rigging, where it was taken, and proved exactly the same bird ...Joseph Banks William Dampier"Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland...Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on her concerns about the acceptability of some of her writings: 'While writing "Weal and Woe in Garveloch," the perspiration many a time streamed down ...Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau"Weal and Woe in Garveloch"Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on reading for research toward her series of 'Tales', during 1832: 'The scenery was furnished by books of travel obtained from the Public Library [...] ...Harriet Martineau Edwards"West Indies"Print: Book
1800-1849In letter from Byron to Thomas Moore: 'When Byron read these verses aloud to Moore and Rogers, they all three broke down with laughter.'George Gordon, Lord Byron Lord Thurlow"When Rogers ... "Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christopher Wordsworth"Who Wrote Eikon Basilike?" considered and answere...Print: Book


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