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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
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...Sarah Harriet Burney John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...Sarah Harriet Burney John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...[Miss] Wilbraham John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...[Miss] Wilbraham John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...Elizabeth Wilbraham John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...Elizabeth Wilbraham John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing, as was her habit during this time [Spring 1906], a description of her s...Virginia Stephen Walter Savage LandorPericles and AspasiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[W. H.] Brookfield writes [to Tennyson] from Sheffield: '"You and Rob Montgomery are our only brewers now! A propos to the latter, Jingling James, his namesake, dined...James Montgomery Alfred TennysonsonnetsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[W.L. George] wrote a good little book on modern France. This is all I know of his work, except newspaper articles.' Arnold Bennett W.L. George Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott childrenMaria EdgeworthRosamondPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott childrenMaria Edgeworth[?The] Purple JarPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott childrenMaria EdgeworthSimple SusanPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Walter Scott Maria EdgeworthSimple SusanPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Walter Scott Maria EdgeworthRosamondPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Walter Scott Maria Edgeworth[?The] Purple JarPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Walter Scott Maria EdgeworthHarry and LucyPrint: Book
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
1700-1799'[when Mrs Thrale was a child] The Duchess of Leeds likewise took an odd Delight in my excellent company, used to send her chair for me & set me to read Milton I remember...Hester Lynch Salusbury John Milton Print: Book
1900-1945'[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, & felt less jellyish. I read a lot, but only silly school stories, except one book, "...Hilary Spalding Florence ConverseThe House of PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945'[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, & felt less jellyish. I read a lot, but only silly school stories, except one book, "Th...Hilary Spalding unknown["silly school stories"]Print: Book


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