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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'And I saw a Punch which I thought I would like so much....there was one queer picture in Mr Punch which I must tell you about'.Robert Louis Stevenson PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899John Wilson Croker to John Murray jr, 14 February 1857: 'I have been so very ill as to have been unable until yesterday to look at the Raglan article in the last Quart...John Wilson Croker article on Duke of WellingtonPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have got the book from Mrs Bell it is Martin Rattler.'Robert Louis Stevenson R M BallantyneMartin Rattler or a Boy's Adventures in the Forest...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am getting on very well with Ovid.'Robert Louis Stevenson OvidunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Oh my vessel's on the say says the shan van voght And I do not know what to say says the shan van voght.'Robert Louis Stevenson Traditional BalladShan Van VoghtUnknown
1850-1899'I have read Bragelonne'.Robert Louis Stevenson Alexandre DumasLe Vicomte de BragelonnePrint: Book
1850-1899'I spent most of yesterday in the Advocates' Library and got about half way through the catalogue.'Robert Louis Stevenson ?Robert ?Wodrow[MSS in the Advocates' Library]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Do you know Henry Kingsley. Read Mademoiselle Mathilde by him, now coming out in the Gentleman's Magazine ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry KingsleyMademoiselle MathildePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I suppose Poems and Ballads will stand in the way of a Laureateship.'Robert Louis Stevenson Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and Ballads [first series]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
1850-1899'By the way what awful trash Tennyson's serial poetry is just now. To think of the man who wrote the 'Lotus Eaters' 'St Simeon Stylites' et caetera.'Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred TennysonThe Lotus Eaters/St Simeon StylitesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I send you three translations of a bit of Horace, in order to hear what you think of the last measure.'Robert Louis Stevenson HoraceBook II Ode IIIPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in ...Frederick Edminson Frederick Edminson[paper on Matthew Arnold as essayist]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899"Can you find and send to me the last lines of Longfellow's Golden legend, beginning 'It is Lucifer, son of the air,' and so on. 'Since God put him there, he is God's min...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Golden LegendPrint: Book
1850-1899'The strike [at Dowlais Iron Company works] being over, Lady Charlotte left Dowlais for Canford. She stopped in London on the way [...] In the evening there was "Music wi...Lady Charlotte Guest BodeBallads from HerodotusPrint: Book
1850-1899'At Dowlais again alone [following period spent in London and elsewhere], the day's record started prosaically: "Works journal till 8, then Euclid till 9."'Lady Charlotte Guest Euclid  Print: Book
1850-1899'The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed'Alfred Rawlings Alfred Rawlings[Minutes of XII Book Club Meeting]Manuscript: book
1850-1899'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in ...Frederick Burgess Frederick Burgess[paper on matthew Arnold as man and politician]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Hegel must either be frightfully clever, or a most egregious ass: I incline to the latter position.'Robert Louis Stevenson Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelunknownUnknown
1850-189919 February 1854: 'After breakfast I walked with my boys [i.e. two of her sons] to Trinity College [Cambridge]. They took me through the Great Court [...] and thence i...Lady Charlotte Guest Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book


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