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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[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge William BlakeThe Ladies Charity School-House Roll of HighgatePrint: Book
1900-1945'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in...Charles Evans Molly Elliott SeawellThe Ladies' BattlePrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [1758] following stay in London with Carter:] 'I have looked in Dodsley, to see if any events had happened between your leaving t...Catherine Talbot Robert DodsleyThe Ladies' Memorandum BookPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to W. D. Howells, 7 April 1879: "The amazingly poor little notice of your novel in the last (at least my last) Nation, makes me feel that I must no longer del...Henry James William Dean HowellsThe Lady of the AroostookPrint: Book
1800-1849Extract of letter from Thomas De Quincey to Mary Wordsworth, given in 30 December 1810 letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson: '"W. Scott's last novel, the...Thomas De Quincey Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakeUnknown
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"How much a book gains by the appropriate surroundings of the person reading it, was forcibly impressed upon me [by the circumstances described in RED ID 5432], and this ...John Bedford Leno Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading, and am enchanted with The Lady of the Lake. It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. Whe...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849'We began Pease on Sunday, but our gatherings are very small - not at all like the gathering in the Lady of the Lake.'Jane Austen Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849'Harp of the North! that mouldering long hath hung, ..'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lady of the LakeUnknown
1850-1899'Prominent among these was a set of the poems of Walter Scott, and in his unwonted geniality and provisional spirit of compromise, my Father must do no less than read the...Philip Gosse Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on reading at her Bath boarding school: 'We learned passages from the best authors, and my delight in Walter Scott made me add to the regular l...Elizabeth Sewell Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'Poor Sir Walter Scott! You have heard that he is dying [...] The other night Papa read a passage from the Lady of...Edward Moulton-Barrett sr Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1850-1899'[from] April 25th [...] [Tennyson] "copied out 'Maud' for the press, and read 'The Lady of the Lake,' having just finished Goethe's 'Helena.'"'Alfred Tennyson Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 27 March 1826: 'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow Ladies -- One whom I had already assisted on some law...anon Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished the Lady of the Lake. – I read all the notes. I have also read these plays of Shakespeare. John. Richard 2d. Henry 4th & I am now reading Henr...William Henry Fox Talbot Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1900-1945'Now I am about to read Mrs Roosevelt's autobiography. Apparently she was a very shy child, and everyone said she would never draw attention anywhere!'Vere Hodgson Eleanor RooseveltThe Lady of the White House: An AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 7.X.33.
    Henry Marriage Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Reginald BerkeleyThe Lady with a LampPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 7.X.33.
    Henry Marriage Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Ethel C. Stevens Reginald BerkeleyThe Lady with a LampPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 7.X.33.
    Henry Marriage Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Elizabeth T. Alexander Reginald BerkeleyThe Lady with a LampPrint: Book


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