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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
 
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752: 'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amusement, "The Female Quixote;" the few chapters I read...Catherine Talbot Charlotte LennoxThe Female QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure; and we chang...Austen familyCharlotte LennoxThe Female Quixote, or, the Adventures of ArabellaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 29 May 1754:] 'I very much wonder, how it came to pass that I did not hear a syllable of Mr Duncombe's performance, till Miss Sal...Thomas Edwards John DuncombeThe FeminiadPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Thanks for the play ["The Feud"] which reached me today and as you may imagine was read at once.' Hence follow a page of praise, including a comparison with the middle p...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettThe FeudPrint: playscript
1800-1849'In October [1815] Scott published his poem, the "Field of Waterloo," and its appearance convinced Blackwood [incorrectly] that Scott was not the author of "Guy Manneri...William Blackwood Walter ScottThe Field of WaterlooPrint: Book
1800-1849'I saw Scott's "Waterloo" and "Guy Mannering" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already - that I have nothing to add to the Newspaper puns, ...Thomas Carlyle Walter ScottThe Field of Waterloo, A PoemPrint: Book
1900-1945'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o...Talbot Baines ReedThe Fifth Form at St Dominic'sPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for the book. You know what I think of it in so far as I have been able to express it. I did not do it very well. There is a singular fascination about this last ...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Fifth Queen Crowned
1900-1945'Friday. Cold + wet under foot. Frenchman fainted after bath. Bridge. Still losing. Fr. + read The Fighting Chance by RW Chambers.'William Thomas Robert W. ChambersThe Fighting ChancePrint: Book
1900-1945'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth...Percy Wall Richard Brinsley Sheridan (pen name? in any case, not the 18th c playwright)The Filipino MartyrsPrint: Book
1900-1945'And I have read Dreiser?s "The Financier", which I could never get hold of till the other day. This book, despite its dreadful slovenliness in details of phrase, is an e...Arnold Bennett Theodore DreiserThe FinancierPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, and the Firgrove, to Coleridge ... The morning was de...William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe FirgroveManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford Robert ParsonThe first booke of the Christian exercise, apperta...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so up to my wife and with great mirth read Sir W Davenents two speeches in dispraise of London and Paris, by way of reproach one to the other, and so to prayers and ...Samuel Pepys Sir DavenantThe first day's entertainment at Rutland House, by...Print: Book
1900-1945‘You mention Ian Hay and MacGill. I had a glance at Ian Hay, and wished I could read it, but had to leave it. What I saw was very good indeed … By the way have you ev...Ivor Bertie Gurney Ian HayThe First Hundred ThousandPrint: Book
1900-1945'To my joy there was a book-case in the room and soon I was engrossed in a book which I later found was Ian Hay's "The First Hundred Thousand" a fictionalised account...Hymie Fagan Ian HayThe First Hundred ThousandPrint: Book
1900-1945"... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's The S...Margaret Cole H. G. WellsThe First Men in the MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945"Thanks for the '1st men in the moon', I have already finished it and enjoyed it very much."Clive Staples Lewis H.G. WellsThe First Men in the MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read [The First Men on the Moon] in Strand, & hasten to insult & annoy you by stating that the last two instalments are among the very best things you have done. ...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe First Men on the MoonPrint: Serial / periodical
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1800-1849		H. J. Jackson notes annotations (including corrections and updatings to text and notes) by Francis Hargrave in copy of his own edition of Edward Coke's Commentary upon Li...Francis Hargrave Edward CokeThe First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of En...Print: Book


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