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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?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the latter of which, I verily believe preserved me from t...Charles Dickens The ExaminerPrint: Newspaper, Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (December 1806): 'We had the Examiner yesterday. Mr. Hunt's jokes are really wretched. I am more convinced...Devonshire familyLeigh Hunt et alThe ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The Examiner comes with perfect regularity; and tho' a week old is a great blessing. Continue it, if you can. Nay, if it came on Saturday (that is half a week old) thi...Thomas Carlyle The ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The two Examiners came on Wednesday: we like them much.'Thomas Carlyle The ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945
Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "On a visit to the Quantocks... William Hale White, 'Mark Rutherford,' reread The Excursion, book 1...William Hale White William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "...Edwin Muir William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson's acute and passionate wisdom. (Examine passage I, ...John Ruskin William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mother has been reading "The Excursion" lately.'Edith Lytton William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Here I am beside a French canal, watching the day, and remembering with an ache what Glostershire is in such a season as September, and with whom I usually spent the...Ivor Bertie Gurney William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set forth in prose or verse, merely as the material for gra...anon William WordsworthThe Excursion (excerpts)Print: Book
1900-1945'The Excursion June 24th 1939.
 H. R. Smith once again agreed to provide a route, & we had an excellent run without going outside the boundaries of Berkshire...
Bruce Dilks Victor AlexanderThe Excursion June 24th 1939Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39.
    A Bruce Dilks in the chair.

1. Minutes of last [two meetings] read & approved.

[......
Victor Alexander Victor AlexanderThe Excursion June 24th 1939Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945

Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35

   Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. Account o...

Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. RobsonThe Excursion – Saturday July 13th. 1935: Byways o...Manuscript: Notebook, with photographs of the excursion pasted alongside the text.
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William WordsworthThe Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse,Print: Book
1800-1849'Calls on Hookham and brings home Wordsworths Excursion of which we read a part - much disappointed - he is a slave'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William WordsworthThe Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, a p...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Mary reads the "Excursion" all day & reads the "History of Margeret" to PBS'.Mary Godwin William WordsworthThe excursion, being a portion of the recluse, a p...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the Excursion & Madoc.'Mary Godwin William WordsworthThe Excursion, Being a portion of the Recluse, a p...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [...] Read in the Excursion -- the Story of Margaret ver...Claire Clairmont William WordsworthThe Excursion, Being a Portion of the Recluse, a P...Print: Book
1700-1799'In the even I read to my friend a sermon preached at the last Visitation held at Lewes, written by Mr Nicholl, Vicar of Westham in this county, and part of three discour...Thomas Turner John NichollThe execrable practice of buying and selling livin...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Suddenly he [William Edmonstoune Ayton] burst forth without any warning with "Come hither Evan Cameron" - and repeated the poem to us.'William Edmonstoune Ayton William Edmonstoune AytonThe Execution of MontrosePrint: Serial / periodical



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