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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
 
Byron to unknown female correspondent (mother of author of poem sent for Byron's consideration), 17 August 1814: 'The poem from which you have done me the honour to enlo...George Gordon Lord Byron Robert Charles Dallas [?][poem]Manuscript: Unknown
Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 14 October 1814: 'I have this morning seen the paragraph [regarding their engagement, alluded to by her in letter to him] -- it is just to yo...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspaper]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 'trying to read old Annual Registers and the daily pap...George Gordon Lord Byron [daily newspapers]Print: Newspaper
Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre: 'Sir -- Mr. Lamb -- (one of my colleagues in the S...George Lamb Charles Robert MaturinBertramManuscript: Unknown
Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of the French papers chooses to tell me, -- or the adv...George Gordon Lord Byron Quarterly ReviewPrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
Byron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III, [?April 1817]: 'Sir, In your Journal of 27th...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspaper]Print: NewspaperUnknown
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 February 1821: 'Within these few days I have read, but not written.'George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure. I receive yo...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonChilde Harold's Monitor, or Lines occasioned by th...Unknown
Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821: 'You may probably have seen all sorts of attacks upon me in some gazettes in England some months ago. I only saw them, by Murray's ...George Gordon Lord Byron A. A. Wattsseries of five articles alleging plagiarism in Byr...Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on R. B. Sheridan, 15 October 1821: 'One day I saw him take up his own "Monody on Garrick". -- He lighted ...Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley SheridanMonody on GarrickUnknown
Byron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... "Mirandola" [was] not announced till the winter following [summer 1820]. The first time I ...George Gordon Lord Byron advertisement for "Mirandola"Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay Charles DarwinThe Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 March 1802: 'I read German after my return [from walk] till tea time.'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownGerman text/sPrint: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 March 1802: ' After tea I read to William that account of the little boy belonging to the tall woman ...'Dorothy Wordsworth unknownunknownUnknown
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'He [William Wordsworth] is now reading Ben Jonson ... It is about 10 o'clock, a quiet night. The fire flut...William Wordsworth Ben JonsonunknownPrint: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 4 June 1802, "... a tranquil night ... I read Mother Hubbard's Tale before I went to bed."Dorothy Wordsworth Mother Hubbard's TaleUnknown
Came upstairs at 10 1/2 [...] musing melancholily over the fire till 11. From then till 3.10, read the whole of (M-sen t it to me Saturday 15 November) some passages in t...Anne Lister By the author of valerius and Reginald Dalton Some passages in the life of Mr Adam BlairPrint: Book
My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...Anne Lutton John AdamsThe History of Rome, from the Foundation of the CiPrint: Book
My brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what a power was at work in our hearts! 'Scriptures'Print: Book
Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 25 November 1883: 'I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of the most curious and amazing books in all literature...Henry James Anthony TrollopeAutobiographyPrint: Book


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