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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'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot...Edwin Muir Algernon Charles Swinburne'Atalanta in Calydon'Print: Unknown
1700-1799In letter to Mary Berry of 17 August 1791, Horace Walpole transcribes anonymously-authored, sixteen-line verse, sent to him by General Conway, on Sir W. Hamilton's mistre...Horace Walpole anon 'Attitudes -- A Sketch'Unknown
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...Reginald Robson Reginald Robson'Bad Morality & Bad art'Manuscript: Unknown
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, verses by Lady Jane Grey beginning: 'be Constant be Constant Feare not for Pain'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Lady Jane Grey'Be Constant'Print: Book
1900-1945‘We are on a long march and I’m writing this on the chance of getting it off; so you should know I received your papers and also your letter … The Poetry Review you s...Isaac Rosenberg Walt Whitman'Beat! Beat! Drums!'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the top...Florence Reynolds John Masefield'Beauty'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846: 'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, after reading just the first & last poems, I could not h...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Richard Hengist Horne'Bedd Gelert'Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Hood'Ben Battle'Print: Book
1900-1945'5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touched upon the History of the County in his inimitable ...Sylvanus A. Reynolds 'Berkshire Lady, A'Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Feb. 13th. A. read what he had done of the birth and marriage of "Arthur."'Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'birth and marriage of "Arthur"'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Her first WEA summer scool at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over Wilson's Fourteen Points and in literary sessions r...Alice Foley Robert Browning'Bishop Blougram's Apology'Print: Book
1800-1849'Last night, I was listening to music and the voice of song amid dandy clerks and sparkling females - laughing at times even to soreness at the marvellous Dr John Scott (...Thomas Carlyle John Scott'Blackwood's Magazine' [ARTICLE TITLE] in 'The Lon...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-19457 August 1918: 'Our excitement [has been] the return of the servants from Lewes last night, with [...] the English review for me, with [...] Katherine Mansfield on Blis...Virginia Woolf Katherine Mansfield'Bliss'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916: 'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts was here, and went round at once to get news of Jerm...Edward Morgan Forster Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner)'Bombardment'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[Mary Brotherton writes] 'I told him [Tennyson] the story [of the eighteenth-century woman soldier Phoebe Hessel] one day at Farringford, knowing it would touch him, and ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Bones'Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 1st. A. [...] is very cheerful, and is reading me a book about Russia. He is interested in the strange sects among the Russ...Alfred Tennyson 'book about Russia'Print: Book
1850-1899'The note by my father, that originally headed his blank verse translation from the Iliad beginning 'He ceased, and sea-like roar'd the Trojan host, 'ran: "Some, an...Alfred Tennyson Sir John Herschel'Book I. of the Iliad translated in the Hexameter ...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 9 February 1862: 'I ought before this to have written to thank you for your book of Ancient Astronomy. But I delayed doing so until I had ...George Grote G. C. Lewis'book of Ancient Astronomy' Print: Book
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson to Emily Sellwood (1839): 'I took up this morning an unhappy book of English verse by a Welshman, and read therein that all which lies at present swamp...Alfred Tennyson 'book of English verse by a Welshman'Print: Book
1850-1899'The farm [a family property] in Lincolnshire consumed a vast deal of our time all through [...] 1853 [...] Grote worked at intervals even at the farm [...] the operati...George Grote Stephens'Book of the Farm'Print: Book


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