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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
 
'"Stilted prose" was the rapid and unhesitating reply to whether ... [George Meredith] reckoned "The Light of Asia" a very fine poem, to the dismay of his questioner, who...Sir Edwin ArnoldThe Light of AsiaPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Walter] Besant told [William Robertson] Nicoll that no sooner had he read "The Light that Failed" (1891) on a long train journey than he started it again and read it th...Walter Besant Rudyard KiplingThe Light that FailedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Walked Marshy Meadows. Read "Light that Failed."'Verena Vera Pennefather Rudyard KiplingThe Light that FailedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Didn't go out all day. May brought me from Library "Women the world over" and took back "Candles in the flame" and "Lighter side of school life["].'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Ian Hay (pseud.)The Lighter Side of School LifePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Lily'; [text] 'How withered, perished seems the form/ Of you obscure unsightly root/Yet from the blight of wintry...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Maria TigheThe lilyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, December 1851:

'You ask me about the "Lily and the Bee." If you have read it dear Ellen, you have effected an exploit bey...		Charlotte Brontë Samuel WarrenThe Lily and the Bee; an apologue of the Crystal P...Print: Book
1850-1899Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859: 'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with the greatest delight, the "Maid of Astolat" twice ov...Benjamin Jowett Alfred TennysonThe Lily MaidPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839: 'I have read Mr Chorley's Lion [...] it is a work highly indicative of ability [...] brilliant with allusi...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Fothergill ChorleyThe Lion, a Tale of the CoteriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Whilst confined by his last illness, it was his regular practice to have the church-service read to him, by some attentive and friendly Divine. The Rev. Mr. Hoole perfor...John Hoole the LitanyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Whilst confined by his last illness, it was his regular practice to have the church-service read to him, by some attentive and friendly Divine. The Rev. Mr. Hoole perfor...Samuel Johnson the LitanyPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Literary Character", in which marginal remarks from Byr...George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac DisraeliThe Literary CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Literary Character", in which marginal remarks from Byr...George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac DisraeliThe Literary CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the "Literary Gazette"; the notice of the Life of Bonaparte is quite entertaining, some of the names of the French Revolutionists who were quite familiar abo...Robert Sharp The Literary GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'Virginia Woolf Max EastmanThe Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of SciencePrint: Book
1800-1849'...I should have thought that I acknowledged the “[Literary] Remains”, but I suppose I only intended to do it. I am, on the whole, greatly pleased with them. There is ...Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor ColeridgePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 2 January 1885: "Three days ago ... came the two copies of Father's (and your) book ... All I have had time to read as yet is the introducti...Henry James Henry James Sr and William JamesThe Literary Remains of the Late Henry JamesPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Isa GlennThe Little Candle's BeamPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's...Florence Barclay Charlotte Mary YongeThe Little DukePrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Charlotte Mary YongeThe Little DukePrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Charlotte M. YongeThe Little Duke Print: Book


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