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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
 
1700-1799'[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu and Anna Seward for instance, read both.'Anna Seward Mary Wortley MontaguLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu and Anna Seward for instance, read both.'Elizabeth Montagu Mary Wortley MontaguLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Mary] Jones particularly admired Pope's letters. In August 1735, not long after the publication of "Letters of Mr Pope and Several Eminent Persons", she wrote Martha Lo...Mary Jones Alexander PopeLetters of Mr Pope and Several Eminent PersonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846), though lately he had ...Max Beerbohm William Makepeace ThackerayThe Four GeorgesPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846), though lately he had ...Max Beerbohm Edward LearBook of NonsensePrint: Book
1850-1899'[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846), though lately he had ...Max Beerbohm Oscar WildeIntentionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[May Sinclair] read [Freud] in German as soon as "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and the "Three Essays on Sexuality" were available.'May Sinclair Sigmund FreudThree Essays on SexualityPrint: Book
1900-1945'[May Sinclair] read [Freud] in German as soon as "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and the "Three Essays on Sexuality"were available.'May Sinclair Sigmund FreudThe Psychopathology of Everyday LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Merimee's] book has arrived yesterday. I have only begun reading it.' [letter to Venceslas-Victor Jacquemont]Mary Shelley Prosper MerimeeLa JacqueriePrint: Book
1850-1899'[Meta] has a little orphan boy to teach French to, reads with Elliot every night, etc: etc: and has always more books she [is] wanting to read than she can get through, ...Margaret Emily Gaskell [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' ...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland [unknown][reports on education in Prussia]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' ...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Thomas HuxleyLifePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' ...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' ...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland [unknown][romantic fiction]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'[Miss Hennell's] is a wonderful book for beauty; - a really wonderful poem, it seems to me: but O dear! so unsound in the latter part! - so weak in it...Harriet Martineau Sara Sophia HennellThoughts in Aid of FaithPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Miss Sophia Pitches] died of a Disorder common enough to Young Women the desire of Beauty; She had I fancy taken Quack Med'cines to prevent growing fat, or perhaps to r...Hester Lynch Thrale [ladies memorandum books]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when the great work was announced in the newspapers as n...Charles Burney Samuel Johnson[Plan for his dictionary]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when the great work was announced in the newspapers as n...Charles Burney Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[Mr Lysons] brought me these Old Verses one Day, I think they are to be found in a book called Paradise of dainty Devices - compiled in the Reign of Elizabethe' [the (un...Hester Lynch Thrale [verses beginning 'Pass gentelle Thought to her wh...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Galant le plus Pedant, et le Pedant le plus galant qu'on...Hester Lynch Thrale Mr Pepys[verses on Mrs Greville and Mrs Crewe]Unknown


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