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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
 
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's w...James Glass Bertram William TaitTait's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, Macaulay - no less than a "History of England". "Tait...John Mitchel [uknown]Tait's Edinburgh Magazine [review of Macaulay's Hi...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have just been reading your paper about "Taking in Sail". I think I have told you before how much I feel with and sympathise in your afternoon musings - the subdued t...Margaret Oliphant A.K.H. BoydTaking in SailPrint: Unknown
1800-1849[transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Crabbe Minutely trace Man?s life; year after year, Through all his days let all his deeds appear And then though some may ...Lady Caroline Lamb George CrabbeTale II, 'The Parting Hour'Unknown
1800-1849'Prelude MS W contains a fair copy of a verse translation of the tale of the travellers and the angel from Gower's Confessio Amantis ii 291-364 in D[orothy] W[ordsworth]'...Dorothy Wordsworth unknownTale Imitated from GowerUnknown
1800-1849'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonTale of a TubPrint: Book
1800-1849'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonTale of a TubPrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Harrington told Seward, who told me; that Swift had taken his Tale of a Tub from Pallavicini upon Divorces, I always thought it was borrowed from "les trois Annea...Hester Lynch Thrale Jonathan SwiftTale of a Tub, APrint: Book
1700-1799'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputation than he deserves. His excellence is strong sens...Samuel Johnson Jonathan SwiftTale of a Tub, APrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift, as he used to do upon all occasions. "The 'Tale of ...Samuel Johnson Jonathan SwiftTale of a Tub, APrint: Book
1900-1945'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jonson, by the request of the committee, 'Short & sugg...Rosamund Wallis Ben JonsonTale of a Tub, APrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several ...Alfred Rawlings Jonathan SwiftTale of a Tub, APrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Jonathan SwiftTale of a Tub, A. Written for the Universal Improv...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Jonathan SwiftTale of a Tub, Written for the Universal Improveme...
1800-1849Saturday, 10 February 1827: 'I got a present of Lord Frederick Leveson Gower's printed but unpublishd "Tale of the Mill" -- it is a fine tale of terror in itself and v...Walter Scott Lord Frederick Leveson GowerTale of the MillPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Here I enjoyed a number of days in reading A Tale of Two Cities, and in sending off contributions to the Balkan News, which was a racy little news sheet pu...Vero Walter Garratt Charles DickensTale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1850-1899[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family].Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Hans Christian AndersenTalesPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H 32 - 11/1/1857 - "Here is a little bit of criticism at last by way of example on your beginning of the Butterfly. "I am going to tell you." This is familiar - as...John Ruskin Ellen HeatonTalesManuscript: Unpublished short tales
1800-1849'[S. T. Coleridge] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he (the last person whom I should have suspected) read my tales as they came out on the first of the month'.Samuel Taylor Coleridge Harriet MartineauTalesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I had been reading some story of Mrs. Sherwood's, whic...Elizabeth Sewell Mrs. Mary SherwoodTalesPrint: Book


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