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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[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John KenyonRhymed Plea for TolerancePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. February 1838: 'I [italics]will[end italics] thank you for all the pleasure I have had in reading these poems -- so full of strong...Elizabeth Barrett John KenyonpoemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. June 1838: 'The opening stanzas of your poem would charm Criticism into silence, even if she had a little to say [goes on to discu...Elizabeth Barrett John Kenyon"The Greek Wife"Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 10 November 1841: 'I have been wandering in Lower Austria [sic] -- very much pleased -- by the help of your music-tongued & smiling...Elizabeth Barrett John Kenyon'Upper Austria'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 April 1842: 'The "Rhymed Plea" is admirable "after its kind" -- but with all my true & admiring regard for its author & ...Elizabeth Barrett John KenyonA Rhymed Plea for TolerancePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849: 'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere -- I fancy in the Spectator -- and was not much struck...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett John Kenyon'Sacred Gipsy Carol'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1842: 'Mr Kenyon called yesterday [...] and he left Lady Blessington's Annual [...] The annual is fuller of tr...Elizabeth Barrett John Kenyon, Walter Savage Landor, Theodosia GarrowThe Keepsake for 1843Print: Book
1900-1945'On reading an article by Lord (then Mr) Keynes in The Times on working-class saving, I wrote to him about our survey. As well as a letter of encouragement, he sent me a...John Keynesarticle in The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read Kidd's Geological Essay and an account of 10 years residence in Tripoli. Kidd's a very bad embarresed [sic] style. Account of Tripoli; amusing enough. [Lists other ...Benjamin Newton John KiddA Geological essay on the Imperfect EvidencePrint: Book
1850-1899'...I have been continuing to work at ... John Knox...'Robert Louis Stevenson John KnoxunknownUnknown
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790, 'at night': 'While I write, Mr. Lysons has been turning over Le Neve's "Monumenta Anglicana," and has found that [italics]nine...Mr Lysons John le NeveMonumenta Anglicana: Inscriptions on the Monuments...Print: Book
1850-1899'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and rambles that took up so much of my time, but I would try to overcome my disinclination to serious reading. There we...William Henry Hudson John LelandThe Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revel...Print: Book
1850-1899'"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy; and Lempriere's "Classical Dictionary" "Fell into ...Alfred Edward Housman John LempriereBibliotheca Classica Print: Book
1800-1849[Carlyle transcribes a poem by John Leyden he has read in Hogg's 'Spy' and sends it to Robert Mitchell] 'Well, if I am not much deceived you will thank me, for transcribi...Thomas Carlyle John Leyden'Shout, Britons, for the Battle of Asaye'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John LightfootThe Works of the Reverend and Learned John Lightfo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday October [...] 31st. [...] A note from Mr. Baxter with Lingard's [...] Reply to the attacks of Shute, Bishop of Durham against the Catholic Religion which I read...Claire Clairmont John LingardTracts Occasioned by the Publication of a Charge D...Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker John Locke Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place John Locke Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'In my letter of ye. 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that I have not for several years looked into the tract o...George Gordon Lord Byron John LockeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John LockeEssay Concerning Human Understanding, AnPrint: Book


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