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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
 
1800-1849'I see a review of Moxon's book in the Imperial Mag. For July, it is very fair I think.'Robert Sharp The Imperial Magazine; or Compendium of ReligiousPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Sat. Read "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde. Ev Roulette.'William Thomas Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being EarnestPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Daniel WaterlandThe Importance of the Doctrine of the Holy TrinityPrint: Book
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enjoyed me reading to her "The man at the gate" and The...Margaret Ellen Cook Max PembertonThe Impregnable City: A RomancePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enjoyed me reading to her "The man at the gate" and The...Margaret Ellen Cook Max PembertonThe Impregnable City: A RomancePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her "The Impregnable City" and "The Diamond Ship".'Albert Ruskin Cook Max PembertonThe Impregnable City: A RomancePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] enjoys being read to in the aft. I have read to her "The Impregnable City" and "The Diamond Ship".'Margaret Ellen Cook Max PembertonThe Impregnable City: A RomancePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 19 March 1845: 'Mind you read Andersen's "Improvisatore." I have just finished it, -- & am charmed, -- though of story, the...Elizabeth Barrett Hans Christian AndersenThe Improvisatore: or, Life in ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845: 'That book you like so, the Danish novel, must be full of truth & beauty, to judge from the few ...Robert Browning Hans Christian AndersenThe Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop n/aThe Independent WhigPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter n/aThe Independent WhigPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Monday May 24th. [...] Read the Infernal Quixote.'Claire Clairmont Charles LucasThe Infernal Quixote: A Tale of the DayPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read The Inferno. It is wonderful, the most awful study of on-coming madness one could think of, and the strange thing is, it is entirely a writer's madness. I me...Edith Sitwell August StrindbergThe InfernoUnknown
1800-1849'the infinity of god a Russian fragment translated by Mr Bowring' followed by transcript of text '-yes as a drop of water in the sea /..'Mary Groom John BowringThe Infinity Of GodUnknown
1850-1899'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.'Molly Vivian Richard Harris BarhamThe Ingoldsby LegendsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weepi...Frances Stevenson Rev. Richard H. BarhamThe Ingoldsby LegendsPrint: Book
1850-1899"Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsb...Laura Knight The Ingoldsby LegendsPrint: Book
1850-1899"Cicely Hamilton, who had read all of Scott by the time she was eleven, wrote that one of his short stories, 'The Tapestry Chamber': 'was a disturber of my rest for years...Cicely Hamilton The Ingoldsby LegendsPrint: Book
1800-1849At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninu...Elizabeth Barrett Susan FerrierThe InheritancePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have done rather an amusing paragraph or two for "Vanity Fair" on the "Inn Album". I have slated R.B. pretty handsomely.Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BrowningThe Inn AlbumPrint: Book, Unknown


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