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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
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 27 July 1800: 'In the morning, I read Mr. Knight's Landscape.'Dorothy Wordsworth Richard Payne KnightThe Landscape: A Didactic Poem in Three BooksPrint: Book
1850-1899'While out to-night we purchased Whitford's stories of "Under the Dray". There is not much in them but they are decidedly readable & very good for sixpence. Harry commenc...Harry Castieau WhitfordThe Larrikin's StoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date a...Edmund Gosse Dr. Edward YoungThe Last DayPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edwin AtherstoneThe Last Days of Herculaneum; and Abradates and PaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edwin AtherstoneThe Last Days of Herculaneum; and Abradates and Pa...Print: Book
1900-1945'Reading The Last Days of Paris by Alexander Werth, a journalist who kept a diary of those awful weeks.'Vere Hodgson Alexander WerthThe Last Days of Paris: A Journalist's DiaryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I lay all day upstairs on the sofa groaning and grumbling and reading ''The Last Days of Pompeii''.'Charles Darwin Edward Bulmer LyttonThe Last Days of PompeiiPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've been frightfully lazy today: it's been too hot to do anything. Pater was a gem: he brought my breakfast up about 9.30 and I didn't get up until eleven. I read...Dora Willatt Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe Last Days of PompeiiPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Last Green Leaf' 'The last green leaf hangs lonely now/...'Carey/Maingay groupNathaniel Thomas Haynes BaylyThe Last Green LeafPrint: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945Henry James to Andre Raffalovich, 7 November 1913: 'I thank you very kindly indeed for the volume of [Aubrey] Beardsley's letters, by which I have been greatly touched [....Henry James Aubrey BeardsleyThe Last Letters of Aubrey BeardsleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Last Man by T. Campbell esq' [transcribes text] 'All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom...' Signed 'Fanny'Mary Dugdale Thomas CampbellThe Last ManUnknown
1800-1849On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the end. My energies felt dead within me: & how could I...Elizabeth Barrett Mary ShelleyThe Last ManPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 March 1843: 'Notwithstanding my admiration of Bulwer, I had the hardest & most laborious work passing through his "Last...Elizabeth Barrett Edward George Bulwer-LyttonThe Last of the BaronsPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 5 March 1843: 'Here we are sound asleep. Bulwer's new Novel, "The Last of the Barons," is to be, he says, the last of Bulwer's -- ...Robert Browning Edward George Bulwer-LyttonThe Last of the Barons (extract)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would co...Walter Southgate James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond tha...William John Brown James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then go on with "Deerslayer" and end with the "Prairie". ...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of boo...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book
1850-1899'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p...Ford Madox Ford James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book


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