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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'O Thou for whom my lyre Istring/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxEdward MooreThe Lover and the FriendUnknown
1900-1945[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to go on reading things miles away -- beautiful hard wo...Virginia Woolf John FordThe Lover's MelancholyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National"....George Eliot (pseud) unknownThe Lover's SeatPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'If you print your Musæus print the Greek likewise. for my own part — I think the poem of too immoral ...Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles BedfordThe Loves of Hero and LeanderManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 29 January 1797: 'I have received Bedfords book this morning — he has much amended it since I saw the manuscript.' Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles BedfordThe Loves of Hero and LeanderPrint: Book
1800-1849[Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetry from p.48 to 63 but [it] is too voluptuous, too An...Anne Lister Thomas MooreThe Loves of the AngelsPrint: Book
1900-1945I am wading through “Barry Lyndon” the first book of Thackeray’s I have ever got into and I don’t find it at all too bad.Arthur Morris William Makepeace ThackerayThe Luck of Barry LyndonPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & generally, feeling. I should have thought Camoens defici...Robert Southey Luis Vaz de Camoëns The LusiadPrint: Book
1600-1699'but I spent all morning reading of "The Madd Lovers" - a very good play'Samuel Pepys John FletcherThe mad loverPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Nikolai GogolThe Madman's DiaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott William GiffordThe MaeviadPrint: Book
1900-1945In Commonplace Book for 1927 E. F. Forster transcribes passage on time from vol. I, ch.iv of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, accompanying this with comments including: '...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas MannThe Magic MountainPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth...Percy Wall n/aThe MagnetPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y...Aneurin Bevan n/aThe MagnetPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of Puck, Sexton Blake and the Magnet, as well as boys' school stories ...'Margaret Cole and brothers The MagnetPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer...Muriel Box n/aThe MagnetPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Domestic servant Dorothy Burnham never read girls' stories ("I found them insipid and meaningless") but she and her older sister were fixated on the "Magnet" to the poin...Dorothy Burnham n/aThe MagnetPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Elizabeth RobinsThe Magnetic NorthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's England aloud in the evening after our walk.'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonThe Magnetick Lady, or Humours reconciledPrint: Book
1700-1799'This morning we had from the Library the Maid of Arragon, a Tale by Mrs. Cowley, ? & Mrs. Thrale began reading it aloud, ? & the first thing was a [ital]poetical address...Hester Thrale Hannah CowleyThe Maid of ArragonPrint: Book


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