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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'My dear Father and Mother, Your letters received with thanks. My book is being printed by Thorne, Stiff, and Payne, among other people. Is that not appropriate for a neu...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella; Thomas Stevenson[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'My dear Mother, Many thanks for your last kind letter. I am very much better […]. My book is almost through the press.'Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I read Plutarch, and drink cough mixtures.'Robert Louis Stevenson Plutarch unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'My dear Henley, I have just read your Crnhll with genuine delight and admiration.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'The Early Life of J-F Miller', in 'Cornhill Magaz...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have also read — for the first time — Hard Times.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DickensHard TimesPrint: Book
1850-1899'You say [in Walpole's critical study "Joseph Conrad"(1916)] that I have been under the formative influence of "Madame Bovary". In fact I have read it only after finishin...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899Algernon Charles Swinburne to Sir T. Wemyss Reid, in response to Reid's Charlotte Bronte: A Monograph, 24 September 1877:

'I need not say how grateful I shou...		Algernon Charles Swinburne T. Wemyss ReidCharlotte Bronte: A MonographPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 10 January 1850:

'I have received and perused the "Edinburgh Review" — it is very brutal and savage....		Charlotte Brontë George Henry Lewes'Currer Bell's Shirley'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 15 January 1850:

'I have received the "Morning Chronicle." I like Mr Thackeray's letter. As you say, it is manly; it breath...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace ThackerayunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 16 March 1850:

'The last two or three numbers of "Pendennis" will not, I dare say, be generally thought sufficiently exciti...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace ThackerayPendennis (instalments)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 March 1850:

'The books came yesterday evening just as I was wishing for them very much [...] I took up ...		Charlotte Brontë Alexander John ScottSuggestions on Female EducationPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 March 1850:

'I enclose for your perusal a scrap of paper which came into my hands without the knowledge...		Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[Haworth working man's written response to reading...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 12 April 1850:

'The perusal of Southey's Life has lately afforded me much pleasure; the autobiography with...		Charlotte Brontë Charles Cuthbert SoutheyLife and Correspondence of Robert SoutheyPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 12 April 1850:

'I have [...] read one of Miss Austen's works "Emma" — read it with interest and with...		Charlotte Brontë Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 25 April 1850:

'Thank you for the "Leader" which I read with pleasure — the notice of Newman's work ...		Charlotte Brontë [article on 'Newman's work']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Charlotte Bronte, 25 April 1850:

'Yesterday, I went along the shore past two wharves and several warehouses on a st. where I ...		Mary Taylor [Publisher's circular from Smith and Elder]Print: Unknown
1850-1899Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Charlotte Bronte, 13 August 1850:

'After waiting about six months we have just got "Shirley." It was landed from the Constant...		Mary Taylor Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Gaskell to Tottie Fox, August 1850:

'I wish, my dear, you were here. It would be a charming beguiling of my sofa imprisonment. I am very happy neve...		Elizabeth Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 27 August 1850:

'The "Westminster Review" is not a periodical I see regularly, but some time since I got hold of a num...		Charlotte Brontë Is.Is (pseud.)'Woman's Mission'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 27 August 1850:

'I have read Tennyson's "In Memoriam," or rather part of it; I closed the book when I had got about ha...		Charlotte Brontë Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam A. H. H.Print: Book


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