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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
 
1800-1849Henry Chorley, in Memorials of Mrs Hemans (1836): 'after having heard those beautiful stanzas addressed to his sister [composed August 1816] by Lord Byron -- which afterw...Felicia Hemans George Gordon, Lord ByronStanzas ("My Sister -- my sweet Sister")Manuscript: Unknown
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines entitled ‘Stanzas Addressed to the Greeks’ [unattributed] beginning 'On, on! To the just and gl...Catherine Austen anonStanzas Addressed to the GreeksUnknown
1800-1849'stanzas for music by the ettrick shepherd' [transcribes 2 stanzas] 'my sweet little...'Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan James HoggStanzas for musicUnknown
1850-1899Aubrey de Vere on time spent with Alfred Tennyson in London during 1850: 'Few of the hours I spent with Alfred surive with such a pathetic sweetness and nearness in my...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennysonstanzas from In MemoriamManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Aubrey de Vere on time spent with Alfred Tennyson in London during 1850: 'Few of the hours I spent with Alfred surive with such a pathetic sweetness and nearness in my...Aubrey de Vere Alfred Tennysonstanzas from In MemoriamManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1839: 'I do not know whether Miss Garrow does or does not write ballads [...] I have seen no writing of her's exce...Elizabeth Barrett Theodosia Garrowstanzas on the death of Letitia Elizabeth LandonManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'At a moment of such deep agony & I may add shame--when utterly disgraced judge Byron what my feelings must be at Murrays shewing me some beautiful verses of yours--I do ...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronStanzas to AugustaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'stanzas. addressed to a friend on the birth of his first child. / montgomery'Mary Groom James MontgomeryStanzas, Addressed to a friend on the birth of his...Unknown
1850-1899'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion...George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoStanzePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Thursday 14 March 1915: 'If I'd written this diary last night which I was too excited to do, I should have left a row of question marks at the end. What excited me was th...Virginia Woolf StarPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'On Monday, January 15, saw an Evening Standard placard with the words, "Hitler Will March, says Paris" But in the Star the same evening was a summary of an article by Pe... StarPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Marshy Meadows by short cut and read Star Dreamer.'Verena Vera Pennefather Agnes CastleStar DreamerPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Beverley NicholsStar Spangled Manner, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'The next morning I took a ride to Stoke where Lady Louisa show'd me a paragraph she had cut out of the "Star", reflecting on the Dean for refusing the cathedral for the ...John Marsh [n/a]Star, ThePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Henry WilliamsonStar-born, ThePrint: Book
Transcription of William Wordsworth, "Star-Gazers" appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 15 November 1806.Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthStar-GazersUnknown
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include remarks on spatial relations between man, atoms, and stars, and on the effects of temperature on...Edward Morgan Forster A. S. EddingtonStars and AtomsPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding A.J. CroninStars Look DownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I want to thank you at once for the book you have been good enough to send me.It is of course of the greatest interest and secures my personal sympathy by the kindly att...Joseph Conrad Harold WaldoStash of the Marsh CountyPrint: Book
1800-1849The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feeling and my last Paper (with great estimation) in the...Margaret Carlyle Thomas CarlyleState of German LiteraturePrint: Serial / periodical


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