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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John MiltonParadise Lost: a poem in twelve booksPrint: Book
1800-1849'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chap...Christopher Thomson John Milton 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 Milton Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' were but expressions of thoughts and feelings whi...Samuel Bamford John MiltonL'AllegroPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' were but expressions of thoughts and feelings whi...Samuel Bamford John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I often think of the happy evening when, by your fireside, my Brother read to us the first book of the Paradise lost ... 'William Wordsworth John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford them no, for I have no wish to incur any extraneous exp...anon John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson (12 November 1810) with description of three nights' stay during October (c.26-29) 1810 at Hackett (overlooking Langdale a...William Wordsworth John MiltonParadise LostUnknown
1800-1849Wordsworth in the Fenwick Note to Miscellaneous Sonnets: 'In the cottage of Town-End, one afternoon, in 1801, my Sister read to me the Sonnets of Milton. I had long been...Dorothy Wordsworth John Milton[sonnets]Unknown
1800-1849'During his stay with the Beaumonts at Coleorton, 30 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1806, W[ordsworth] gave several readings from Paradise Lost - including Book I and Book VI, lines 767-...William Wordsworth John MiltonParadise LostUnknown
1800-1849'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...Joseph Barker John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of the song of Milton, "Sabrina fair" has brought back...George Gordon Lord Byron John MiltonSabrina FairPrint: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ...Joseph Malaby Dent John Milton Print: Book
1900-1945'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t...Elizabeth Blackburn John MiltonLycidasPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell. Worn out with his bad night's rest. He went to bed -- I read to him, to endeavo...Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonParadise Lost (Book I)Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 February, 1802: 'After tea I read aloud the eleventh book of Paradise Lost. We were much impressed, and also melted into ...Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonParadise Lost (Book XI)Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 21 May 1802, 'Wm. wrote two sonnets on Buonaparte, after I had read Milton's sonnets to him.'Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonsonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, in entry for Thursday 3 June 1802, 'A very affecting letter came from M[ary]. H[utchinson]., while I was sitting in the window read...Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea running the heel of...Dorothy and William WordsworthJohn MiltonsonnetsPrint: Book


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