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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'[love letters represent the only subject women] 'should ever attempt to write about. Madame de Stael even I will not except from this general rule; she has done a plague...Matthew Lewis Anne Louise Germaine, marquise de Stael Holstein Print: Book
1800-1849'[L]ittle else travels down to me my Cousins & Virtuous friends not being over addicted to scribbling--do not think I put you in the other class [...] it is only an appel...Lady Caroline Lamb Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an e...Anne Romilly Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an e...Anne Romilly [newspaper extract of Preface to "Glenarvon"]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an e...Mr Edgeworth Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Marie] Corelli's rendering of the Resurrection in Barabbas [1893] was read from the pulpit on Easter Sunday at Westminster Abbey by the Dean.'Marie CorelliBarabbasPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mark L.] Reed judges that a passage on pedlars from Heron was entered in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 5 April 1800 ... 'Wordsworth FamilyRobert HeronObservations Made in a Journey through the Western...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Mark L.] Reed judges that W[ordsworth] and D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied extracts from the Life [of Lady Guion] into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 29 Sept 1800...Wordsworth FamilyJeanne Marie Bouvieres de la Motte GuyonLife of Lady Guion, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mark L.] Reed reports that W[ordsworth] copied quotations from Sennertus into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31 ... c.Feb.1801. They appear to have been copied from C[oleridge]'s...William Wordsworth Daniel SennertusunknownUnknown
1800-1849'[Martin] suffered but little violent pain until the day he died. Up to that period he sought amusement in cheerful and entertaining books. A child of his landlady read t... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."' books on hydraulicsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."' books on astronomyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th...Mary Smith John Dryden Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th...Mary Smith Joseph Addison Print: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th...Mary Smith Alexander Pope'Ode on Solitude'Print: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th...Mary Smith Oliver Goldsmith Print: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th...Mary Smith Richard Steele Print: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th...Mary Smith William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899'[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...' Mary St Leger Harrison philosophical textsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...'Mary St Leger Harrison poetryPrint: Book


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