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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
 
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1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward Mark Akenside[unknown]Print: Book
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1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward Erasmus Darwin[unknown]Print: Book
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1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward Thomas Gray[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Annabella] had been reading Harriet Martineau's "Five Years of Youth", and wrote to a friend: "it is very good - chiefly directed against Romance, and therefore not nec...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Harriet MartineauFive Years of Youth: or, Sense and SentimentPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Anne Isabella Milbanke] read a great deal [during season of 1813], among her books being one called Pride and Prejudice, "which is at present the fashionable novel. It ...Anne Isabella Milbanke Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1900-1945'[another of Owen's poetic influences was] Brooke's friend W.W. Gibson, whose "Battle" (1915) Owen read in December [1915]'Wilfred Owen W.W. GibsonBattlePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Gustave Flaubert Print: Book
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Anton Chekhov Print: Book
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Joseph Conrad Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Paul Verlaine Print: Book
1850-1899'[Arthur] Symons reviewing "Trionfo della Morte" (trans:) [Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1894 novel] in the last "Sat. Rev" went out of his way to damn Kipling and me with the sa...Joseph Conrad Arthur Symons[article in Saturday Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[at a gathering on the Isle of Wight] it fell to Paterson's Share [in a rhyming contest] it seems to celebrate Kitty Parker, then a reigning Beauty: he promised not to l...Mr Paterson Mr Paterson[verses written to Kitty Parker]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from that time, deserted me. Mrs [Meribah] Lorrington freque...Mary Darby  Print: Book
1700-1799'[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from that time, deserted me. Mrs [Meribah] Lorrington freque...Meribah Lorrington  Print: Book
1700-1799'[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from that time, deserted me. Mrs [Meribah] Lorrington freque...Meribah Lorrington Mary DarbypoemsManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'[at Christmas, Easter and on other holidays, he] 'would be at Work or Study, whilst my Fellow-servants were abroad taking their Pleasure. I was then upon Astrolgy [sic],...Thomas Tryon [unknown][books on astrology]Print: Book
1800-1849'[At Halnaby, on honeymoon] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Dryden's Don Sebastian, which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron [husband] a question. He sa...Anne Isabella Lady Byron John DrydenDon SebastianPrint: Book
1900-1945'[At his parents' house] We saw photos of Ezra as a baby and his first poems in an Idaho paper and no end of things that wd make poor Ezra squirm'.Ford Madox Ford Ezra Pound[early poems]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boys between eleven and fourteen, in the course of whic...Mary Augusta Ward Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
1850-1899'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boys between eleven and fourteen, in the course of whic...Mary Augusta Ward Rudyard Kipling Print: Book


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