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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'Our new Master reads prayers to the Boys every night - John says he does not read so well as Mr Johnson; but ab...  Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, ['Early Spring 1812']: 'I see no new books except by the merest accident ... The only modern Books that I read are those of travel...William Wordsworth [travel books]Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'The Coleridges and Algernon [Montagu] were here yesterday and John and A had a happy day of play and rea...Algernon Montagu  Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] is reading a Story Book of Algernon [Montagu]'s at home and you would be surprised to hear how we...John Wordsworth [a story book]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what he reads in the Grammar. Today we proposed to him ...John Wordsworth [grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Mary Hutchinson, 1 February 1813: 'Willy [Wordsworth, the poet's son] is now beside me ... He has taken up a book, and there he reads fragments of a...Willy Wordsworth [nursery rhymes]Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson [about 14 Sept. 1813]: 'We have had no time to read Newspapers [with decoration of Rydal Mount] but have been obliged to content ...Wordsworth Family  Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes of Mrs Grant's American Lady, which Southey lent to ...Dorothy Wordsworth  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes of Mrs Grant's American Lady, which Southey lent to ...Dorothy Wordsworth ['readings with the Bairns']Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'I saw two sections of Hazlitt's Review [of William Wordsworth, The Excursion, in the Examiner] at Rydale, and...Dorothy Wordsworth Examiner, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'I have seen a book advertised under your name, which I suppose to be a novel.'William Wordsworth  Print: Advertisement, Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes Wordsworth family's anxieties at hearing (false)rumour of death of Tom Clarkson, in letter to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'We anxiousl...Wordsworth Family  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'Buonaparte seems quite to have put the Corn Laws out of our heads. William has however carefully read all that has...William Wordsworth [information about the Corn Laws]Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she had not seen the Book [The Excursion], had seen nothi...Hannah More Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 8 April 1815, on following progress of Napoleon in British press: 'Those villainous Sunday newspapers are my abhorrence - I read in...Dorothy Wordsworth  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 8 April 1815: 'I see by last night's paper (we take the evening Mail) that Murat stands against Buon[aparte].'Dorothy Wordsworth  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 28 June 1815, on learning of abdication of Napoleon: '11 o'clock. Before I go to bed I must tell you that, saving grief for the...Dorothy Wordsworth  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 28 June 1815: 'I have seen the British Critic which contains a Review by a Friend of the Coleridges' which between ourselves I t...Dorothy Wordsworth British CriticPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott: "I have read your late Champions with much pleasure"William Wordsworth The ChampionPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Evidence to Parliamentary Committee from Rev. Thomas Spencer, a Church of England clergyman: "I was appealed to in the parish of which I was incumbent for 22 years, by... anon  Print: Newspaper


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