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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
 
1800-1849From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton - "In 1849 her brother was reading The Seven Lamps of Architecture; he found its author to be 'a great enthusiast and ru...John Heaton John RuskinThe Seven Lamps of ArchitecturePrint: Book
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1850-1899		From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton: "She had read and was a 'great admirer' of the early volumes of Modern Painters.'Ellen Heaton John RuskinModern Painters I and IIPrint: Book
1850-1899'2 East Parade, Leeds. June 25th 1856. Ellen is rather puzzled', wrote her brother to his wife, 'on comparing the tower at Calais, with Ruskin's "delightful" description....Ellen Heaton John RuskinModern Painters IVPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H 30 - January 1856 - "I am always treating you ill - but I took so many presentation copies [of the third volume of Modern Painters, published Jan 15, 1856] from ...Ellen Heaton John RuskinModern Painters IIIPrint: Book
1850-1899"Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -since these magicians were now first revealing themse...Edmund Gosse John Ruskin Print: Book
1850-1899"Poor fellow! I really pity him; for his last numbers of the Fors [Clavigera] seem to imply growing distraction of mind, wh. is scarcely compatible with perfect sanity. Y...Leslie Stephen John RuskinFors [Clavigera]Print: Book
1850-1899?There are plenty of things to groan over if so disposed; a fact wh. has been lately impressed upon me by reading some of Ruskin?s manifestoes to the world.?Leslie Stephen John RuskinFors Clavigera: Letters to the workenand labourers...Print: Book
1900-1945"Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him."Leslie Stephen John RuskinPraeteritaPrint: Book
1900-1945"Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him."Leslie Stephen John Ruskin Print: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies John RuskinThe Crown of Wild olive: Three Lectures on Work, T...Print: Book
1850-1899"Winnie Seerbohm, who left Newnham College, Cambridge in November 1885 after only one term's study, suffered from what seems retrospectively to have been nervous asthma c...Winnie Seerbohm John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1850-1899' .... when ... [Mark Pattison] ... met [Mrs Humphry Ward] as a girl of sixteen ... she was familiar ... with certain pieces of Ruskin's Modern Painters, which she had ...Mary Augusta Ward John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again...Chester Armstrong John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again...Chester Armstrong John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again...Chester Armstrong John RuskinThe Seven Lamps of ArchitecturePrint: Book
1850-1899[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again...Chester Armstrong John RuskinThe Crown of Wild OlivesPrint: Book
1900-1945'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,...Joseph Toole John Ruskin[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise...Patrick McGill John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Pritchett] was... unprepared for the intimidating greatness of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"... "There was too much to know. I discovered that Ruskin was not so very many ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book


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