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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
 
1850-1899'They got dingy novels from the Caen Circg Library, & had no other books, I fancy. No wonder they "hate living abroad".''the Heald girls' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[whilst watching a boat race at Eton] Meta said she thought of the verse in the Ancient Mariner "A Seraph band" &c, - for each figure was motionless and bright, & the sm...Margaret Emily (Meta) Gaskell Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRime of the Ancient mariner, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica, which on opposite sides [of a controversy between Liberals and Clericals] breat...Mary Augusta Ward TribunaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindled by the relationship between the two'Mary Augusta Ward Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont Print: Book
1850-1899Look here, you had better get hold of G.C. Lichtenberg’s "Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche": Gottingen, 1794 to 1816 (it was published in numbers see...Robert Louis Stevenson Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupfersti...Print: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 February 1850: 'Such a magical act as conjuring up for me the sight of a new poem by Alfred Tennyson, is unneces...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAlfred Tennyson(Probably) 'The Bugle Song' (opening 'The splendou...Unknown
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850: 'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much pleased with the book. [italics]I[end italics] am rea...Robert Browning Edward George Bulwer-LyttonThe Caxtons. A Family PicturePrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850: 'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much pleased with the book. [italics]I[end italics] am rea...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850: 'I have read Shirley lately: it is not equal to Jane Eyre in spontaneousness & earnestness: I found ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850: 'I have read Shirley lately: it is not equal to Jane Eyre in spontaneousness & earnestness: I found ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningHonore de BalzacLe Cousin PonsPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850: 'I complain of Florence for the want of books -- we have to dig & dig before we can get anything new...Robert Browning newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 25 April 1850: 'I have read re-read marked learned & [italics]]really[end italics] inwardly digested your last Poem [...] Well then ...Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningChristmas-Eve and Easter-DayPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?27 July 1850: 'I return the "Confidences" with thanks upon thanks. Both Robert & I began with a sort of interest & pleasure...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAlphonse Marie Louis de Prat de LamartineLes ConfidencesPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?27 July 1850: 'I am finishing the "Memoires d'un medecin"'. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alexandre Dumas (pere)Memoires d'un medecin: Joseph BalsamoPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850: 'I have seen extracts in the Examiner from Tennyson's "In Memoriam," which seemed to me exquisitel...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'All through the winter of 1896-7 Mrs Ward was steeping herself in Catholic literature' [as research for her book "Helbeck of Bannisdale"].Mary Augusta Ward [Catholic literature]Print: Book
1850-1899'Many Catholic books, in which she browsed "with what thoughts", as Carlyle would say, followed her to Levens [a house she rented in Kent], giving her that grip of detail...Mary Augusta Ward [Catholic literature]Print: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850: 'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I never should have seen it probably, for my husband ...Robert Browning John Westland MarstonReview of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850: 'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I never should have seen it probably, for my husband ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning John Westland MarstonReview of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850: 'For Mary Barton, I am a little, little disappointed, do you know. I have just done reading it. T...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Unknown


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