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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[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for enclosing to me that sweet melancholy sonnet, which as...Mrs Secker ?Elizabeth ?CartersonnetPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 5 March 1753:] 'I am much obliged to you for the sonnet; it is very pretty'.Thomas Edwards Hester MulsosonnetUnknown
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:] 'The verses from my fair [italics]Pupil[end italics], as she does me the honour to call herself, did indeed a litt...Thomas Edwards Miss HighmoresonnetUnknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754: 'I will send you a sonnet that I am extremely fond of, from no modern author, but from one whom I am sure you never...Catherine Talbot Carlo Maria MaggiSonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...'Unknown
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754: 'I am beyond description charmed with the Italian sonnet you sent me. I am afraid your opinion is too well grounded...Elizabeth Carter Carlo Maria MaggiSonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...'Manuscript: Letter, Transcribed by Catherine Talbot in letter of 10 June 1754.
1800-1849'To My Mother' 'Oh! Thou whose tender smile most partially/...'Julia Mary TigheSonnet Addressed To My MotherPrint: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'I am half enamoured of the paper that touched his hand, and the ink that did his bidding. [I have] grown fond of the sweet comeliness of his charactery'.Oscar Wilde John KeatsSonnet in BlueManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Sonnet on Chillon "Eternal spirit of the Chainless Mind!, ..."'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronSonnet on ChillonUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		In Letter XI, "Letters on Daily Life", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces a sonnet by 'Archbishop Trench' opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident / It is the v...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Trenchsonnet opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by ac...Unknown
1800-1849'Milton's sonnet on his Blindness "When I consider howmy light is spent"'Bowly groupJohn MiltonSonnet OR When I consider how my light is spentUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
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5. F. E. Pollard then undertook...		Francis E. Pollard Matthew ArnoldSonnet to a FriendUnknown
1800-1849'Milton's Sonnet on his Blindness / 'When I consider how my light is spent...'[transcript of text]Emma Bowly John MiltonSonnet XIX When I consider how my light is spentUnknown
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 21 May 1802, 'Wm. wrote two sonnets on Buonaparte, after I had read Milton's sonnets to him.'Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonsonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea running the heel of...Dorothy and William WordsworthJohn MiltonsonnetsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt...Constance Maynard John MiltonSonnetsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's...Marie Stopes William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ...Robert Smillie William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
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1850-1899		"I stayed for the night in Derby, visiting its various printing offices in search of a job, but without success, and, hugging the shore of the river Derwent, made for Mat...John Bedford Leno William WordsworthSonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849"[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's copy of a set of the Works of the British Poets, in wh...William Wordsworth William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book


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