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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'Finish 3rd book of Horace's Odes - Madme de Sevignes letters - & Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage'Mary Shelley John FletcherLove's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 February 1837: 'I have been reading & rejoicing in your Faithful Shepherdess. The general conception & plan are feeble...Elizabeth Barrett John FletcherThe Faithful ShepherdessPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the Tyrant - suggested by the pigs at the fair of St Giul...Percy Bysshe Shelley John FletcherDouble Marriage, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 30th. [...] Read Elder Brother [quotes two lines from Act II scene 1]'. Claire Clairmont John Fletcher and Philip MassingerThe Elder BrotherPrint: Book
1500-1599'The date "1580" is inscribed by [Gabriel] Harvey on sig.Ss3v of the Florio volume ["First Fruites" (1578)] at the "Finis" of the major portion of the text.'Gabriel Harvey John FlorioFlorio his first fruites: a perfect induction to t...Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 14 July 1853:

'Mr Ruskin's beautiful book reached me safely this morning; its arrival was a pleasant surprise, for I was ...		Charlotte Brontë John Forbes'Memorandums Made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836: 'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, with respect to the old dramatists! -- for indeed I ...Elizabeth Barrett John Fordplays (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe John Ford[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe John FordBroken Heart, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a r...Charlotte Bury John FordBroken Heart, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a r...Charlotte Bury John FordLover's Melancholy, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to go on reading things miles away -- beautiful hard wo...Virginia Woolf John FordThe Lover's MelancholyPrint: Book
1850-1899 Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 February 1872: "You, like all the world here I suppose, have been reading Forster's Dickens. It interested, but disappointed me -...Henry James John ForsterLife of Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899Harriet Martineau, in letter of 20 March 1873: 'The Life of Dickens is far too exclusively occupied with his personal relations with Forster [...] Yet it has an interest,...Harriet Martineau John ForsterThe Life of Charles DickensPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dr. Sir. Poets tell us that love is blind ? I fear indifference is more so. It is many months since I sent you a slight gage d?amour; it is many years (do not be alarme...Charles Dickens John Forster[works]Print: BookManuscript: SheetUnknown
1800-1849'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Goldsmith's life, and (long ago) with the Lives of the S...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John ForsterLife and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Goldsmith's life, and (long ago) with the Lives of the S...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John ForsterLives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth Print: Book
1800-1849'I try and find out the places where Mr Forster said I strained after common-place materials for effect, till the whole book dances before my eyes as a commonplace piece ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Forster[review, probably in 'The Examiner' of 'Mary Barto...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have just begun Forster's Life of Dickens again. I did not finish it before. I think that will start me off for the autumn. I want a fact book not a fiction book. Ther...Antonia White John ForsterLife of Charles Dickens, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Foster's essays.'John Ruskin John Foster[essays]Print: Book


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