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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
 
1850-1899'Your kind present of Andrew Lang's two volumes has just reached me, and from what I have gleaned by a glimpse of the plates wh. I have opened, I have an intellectual tre...S.P. Oliver Andrew LangLife, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcot...Print: Book
1800-1849'Your kind present was most welcome [Mary then writes at length about her bad health] I have read a great deal of your volumes with great pleasure recognizing old friends...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntMen, Women, and books: a selection of Sketches, Es...Print: Book
1800-1849'Your last book still rolls on, gathering golden opinions, and I for one thank you, for I have been passing the last fortnight in the country, and perhaps there is no boo...N.P. Willis Mary Russell MitfordBelford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country TownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your last letter was very nice.'Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Your last poem in the Cornhill was first class.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund Gosse'Timasetheos' in The Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles; in every new work your mind seems to increase its e...Prince Regent Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles; in every new work your mind seems to increase its e...Prince Regent Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles; in every new work your mind seems to increase its e...Prince Regent Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1700-1799'Your Lordship's poetry in my Praise I can never forget, and as it would be a Loss to the World if any Part of so justly an admired Author's Works shold be buried in Obli...Laetitia Pilkington Bishop Clayton[poem]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneTwice-Told TalesUnknown
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneBlithedale RomancePrint: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Charles LambunknownUnknown
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey William Makepeace ThackerayunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Golden LegendPrint: Book
1700-1799'Your news and your book very much diverted me: it is an old, but very pleasant, Spanish novel.'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish i...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter Scott[Waverley Novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish i...Louisa, Lady Stuart Anne Racliffe[Novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish i...Louisa, Lady Stuart Lucy AikinMemoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Print: Book
1800-1849'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish i...Mrs Scott Lucy AikinMemoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Print: Book


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