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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 16 June 1802, 'I read the first Canto of the Fairy Queen to William.'Dorothy Wordsworth Edmund SpenserThe Faerie Queene (Canto I)Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 10 November 1851:

'I have now read "The Fair Carew." It seems to me a delightful work and of genuine metal. Whether it ...		Charlotte Brontë anon The Fair Carew; Or, Husbands and WivesUnknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Nicholas RoweThe Fair Penitent: A tragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Mary Pollard Mary Martha SherwoodThe Fairchild FamilyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read fairy tales by George MacDonald.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook George MacDonaldThe Fairy Tales of George MacDonaldPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 February 1837: 'I have been reading & rejoicing in your Faithful Shepherdess. The general conception & plan are feeble...Elizabeth Barrett John FletcherThe Faithful ShepherdessPrint: Book
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'Sydney Smith Philip DoddridgeThe Family ExpositorPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 3rd Vol of Dodderidge's "Family Expositor".'Joseph Hunter Philip DoddridgeThe Family Expositor; or a Paraphrase and VersionPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad The Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful I...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 September 1760:] 'I have picked up a very strange [book], but which, with some faults that would make it dangerous to some so...Catherine Talbot Daniel DefoeThe Family InstructorPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 7 June 1809: 'Mrs Cholmley and two of her daughters and Walter Scott breakfasted with us. Shortly after came Sir G. and Lady Beaumont, Robert Walpol...F. Cholmley Joanna BaillieThe Family Legend (act 4)Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 7 June 1809: 'Mrs Cholmley and two of her daughters and Walter Scott breakfasted with us. Shortly after came Sir G. and Lady Beaumont, Robert Walpol...Mary Berry Joanna BaillieThe Family Legend (acts 1, 2, 3, 5)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Thank you very much for sending me the text [of John Galsworthy's play "The Family Man"] which I have looked over with considerable interest. There are several rather co...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Family ManPrint: playscript
1900-1945'[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a... The Family ReaderPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945Thursday 16 March 1939: 'Yesterday in Bond Street where I finally did lay out £10 on clothes, I saw a crowd round a car, & on the back seat was a Cheetah with a chain rou...Virginia Woolf T. S. EliotThe Family ReunionPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Tom sent me his play, Family Reunion. No, it don't do. I read it over the week end. It starts theories. But no... You see the experiment with st...Virginia Woolf T. S. EliotThe Family ReunionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday August 20th. [...] Read Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe.' Claire Clairmont Johann David WyssThe Family Robinson Crusoe: Or, Journal of a Fathe...Print: Book
1850-1899'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story Teller", that she got from the public library. My fa...Polly Stamper [n/a]The Family StorytellerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'At four and a half my great delight was poring over fairy phenomenons and the actions of necromancers -- & the seven champions of Christendom in "Popular tales" has be...Elizabeth Barrett Richard JohnsonThe Famous Historie of the Seven Champions of Chri...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading a bunch of modern plays published by Benn. Some of them seem to me to be very good and to strike a very real and human note. What do you think of the...Gertrude Bell Miles MallesonThe FanaticsPrint: Book


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