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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruct...Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight.William Pinnock'Catechisms of History and Geography"Print: Book
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The...Charles Evans Oliver Wendell Holmes'Chambered Nautilus, The'Print: Book
1800-1849'Change' 'We say that people ... [transcribes text]'LEL'Mary Dugdale Laetitia Elizabeth Landon'Change'Unknown
1900-1945Monday 11 September 1939: 'I have just read 3 or 4 Characters of Theophrastus, stumbling from Greek to English, & may as well make a note of it. Trying to anchor my mind ...Virginia Woolf Theophrastus 'Characters'Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 15 October 1804: 'We have finished Cowper and have begun to read Charles the Vth.'Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth 'Charles the Vth'Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas Tyrwhitt (ed.)'Chaucer's Dream', attributed to Chaucer in editio...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been longing to be back among you all, and feeling very lonely this afternoon. Since then I have been reading Tennyson's splendid "Ode to the Duke of Wellin...Robert Dunlop Smith Rudyard Kipling'Children's Song'
1800-1849'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there & reads Germania - Several books arrive among others ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge'Christabel'Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.Mary Godwin Samuel Taylor Coleridge'Christabel'Print: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...Elizabeth Ann Smith Robert Louis Stevenson'Christmas at Sea'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15-17 July 1845: 'Yesterday you must have wondered at me for being in such a maze about the poems. It was assuredly the wine song...Elizabeth Barrett Robert Browning'Claret and Tokay'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann...Claire Clairmont anon'Cleomades et Claremonde'Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been longing to be back among you all, and feeling very lonely this afternoon. Since then I have been reading Tennyson's splendid "Ode to the Duke of Wellin...Robert Dunlop Smith Henry Newbolt'Clifton Chapel'
1900-1945'The Subject of Fairy Stories was introduced shortly by C. E. Stansfield who followed with a reading from Rewards & Fairies. "Cold Iron" F. E. Pollard sang "Do you won...Charles Stansfield Rudyard Kipling'Cold Iron'Print: Book
1800-1849'parts are eloquent & true, some too partial & self-satisfied, underrating the evil more than overrating the good, a little of it we should formerly at Christ Church have...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas James'College Life'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Sir Francis Knight to John Murray, 1 April 1839: 'I cannot help thanking you for having sent us such a shower of Quarterly Reviews. My Hens are quite delighted at the ...Sir Francis Head and (apparently) female family membersJohn Wilson Croker'Colonial Government -- Head's Narrative [of his A...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835: 'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five offspring came [...] Meg took them under her especi...Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam 'comic annual'Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin William Wordsworth'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge'Print: Book
1850-1899'[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's hold. He agreed, but said that Pattison's religious ph...Mary Augusta Ward Mark Pattison'Confession of Faith'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846: 'I forgot quite to quarrel with you a little about Sir E Lytton Bulwer [sic] -- because indeed I dislike his...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Edward Bulwer Lytton'Confessions and Observations of a Water-Patient'Print: Serial / periodical


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