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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
 
1850-1899'In the evening... read the "Zueignung" to the "Gedichte" and several of the Ballads'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Zuegnung", "Gedichte", BalladsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Have employed this evening reading the history and theory of the gas lights from a number of the EncyclopaediaAdam Mackie ' an Encyclopaedia'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who deserved the Name of a [italics] Writer [end italics];...Laetitia Pilkington Katherine Philips''in Memory of F.P. who died at Acton the 24 May 1...Print: Book
1850-1899'... such cursed nonsense as the last thing in Good Words. Oh! Alfred Tennyson! Alfred Tennyson, oh!'Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred, Lord Tennyson'1865-1866'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen unknown'18th Century prose'Print: Book
1800-1849Went downstairs a very little after 9 so as to have 1/2 hour before church for reading 2 or 3 old papers my uncle gave me.Anne Lister '2 or 3 old papers'Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'I was however turning over Horace yesterday to look for the Expression [italics] tenui fronte [end italics] in Vindication of my Assertion to Johnson that low Foreheads ...Hester Lynch Thrale Horace'8th Ode'Print: Book
1800-1849Maria Graham to John Murray, 2 November 1817: 'Pray what is the 4th Canto of "Childe Harold" doing? and where is Lord Byron? You know my admiration for his works, and ...Maria Graham 'a Danish account of the north of Africa'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power to ...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart Boyd'A Day of Pleasure at Malvern'Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Warburton has said that the Epic is arrived at perfection & consequently incapable of improvement — for Homer is...Robert Southey William Warburton'A Dissertation on the Sixth Book of Virgil’s Aene...Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Tennyson, 'A Farewell'.Edward Morgan Forster Alfred Tennyson'A Farewell'Print: Book
1850-1899'I liked "Veuillot" horrid; it was jolly and sympathetic and I think true.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'A French Journalist'Print: Serial / periodical
'Mr & Mrs Unwin & Miss Bowman Smith gave a vivacious reading of a clever & witty sketch, "A Lesson in Pearls" by Mrs Barry Pain.'Ernest & Ursula Unwin & Muriel Bowman SmithMrs Barry Pain'A Lesson in Pearls'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'I cou'd not avoid remarking to the Dean, that notwithstanding the Friendship Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] p...Laetitia Pilkington Jonathan Swift'a Libel on Dr Delany and a Certain Great Lord'Print: Unknown
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry: 'I informed him [Pope], that, at reading a new p...Earl of Tyrconnel and guests including Aaron Hill 'a new play'Unknown
1850-1899'The Mag has come; the only thing I liked was your Japanese.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'A Note on Japanese Art' in Magazine of ArtPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'From my early years I was always a lover of books, and I well remeber when we lived in a solitary place that my mother on going to a neighbouring town, always bought me ...Robert White [unknown]'a penny history'Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 2 July 1851, on J. P. Browne's phrenological analysis of her:

'I send back Mr Fraser's [pseudonym assumed by Browne] charac...		Charlotte Brontë J. P. Browne'A Phrenological Estimate of the Talents and Dispo...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then started [?] upon. The Mad Tea Party by Mr A.L. Goad...Alfred Rawlings Lewis Carroll [pseud.]'A Poem'Print: Book
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1850-1899		[Annotations]: Just above the printed words 'A Proposal' Peter Cunningham has added [semi-legible] 'as such of Night' and [legible] '4. Of Young's Night Thoughts 1743'.Peter Cunningham 'A Proposal' [for subscribers to a volume of colle...Print: Advertisement


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