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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'In a visit the Author of the Rambler made me on Monday last, I read to him your "Determinta", and expressed my wonder that he had not made a Paper of it, as I thought it...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaigh'Determinta'Manuscript: unpublished piece of writing
1700-1799'In a visit the Author of the Rambler made me on Monday last, I read to him your "Determinta", and expressed my wonder that he had not made a Paper of it, as I thought it...Samuel Johnson Lady Bradshaigh'Determinta'Manuscript: unpublished piece of writing
1700-1799'I have read your Objections to Sir Charles's Divided Love to Mrs Donellan. Just her sentiments, she said. And Harriet's frequent declarations of her love, she also censu...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaigh[comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'I have read your Objections to Sir Charles's Divided Love to Mrs Donellan. Just her sentiments, she said. And Harriet's frequent declarations of her love, she also censu...Hester Mulso Lady Bradshaigh[comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'I have read your Objections to Sir Charles's Divided Love to Mrs Donellan. Just her sentiments, she said. And Harriet's frequent declarations of her love, she also censu...Mrs Donellan Lady Bradshaigh[comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Noel, 7 February 1816: 'I have read Lady Byron's letter -- enclosed by you to Mrs. Leigh -- with much surprize and more sorrow.'George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Byron[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (March 1836): 'We were quite delighted with your beautiful verses. What power of description to the very life...Leveson Gower familyLady Carlisle'verses'Unknown
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet?...Gerald Moore Lady GregoryThe Rising of the MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'... [Thomas Hardy] did once chance a criticism of Lady Grove's description of her brush with an unhelpful shop assistant when he read the proofs of The Social Fetich (19...Thomas Hardy Lady GroveThe Social FetichPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mo...Frances Burney Lady MorganThe MissionaryPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ...Harriet Grove Lady MorganThe Novice of Saint DominickPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'Mary Shelley Lady MorganThe Missionary: An Indian TalePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'Mary Shelley Lady MorganWild Irish Girl, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Lady Morgans "France".'Percy Bysshe Shelley Lady MorganFrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".'Percy Bysshe Shelley Lady MorganFrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "France"'Mary Shelley Lady MorganFrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Florence Macarthy'Mary Shelley Lady MorganFlorence Macarthy: an Irish TalePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday July 18th. [...] Read Continuation of the Stories of Old Daniel.' ...Claire Clairmont Lady Mount CashellContinuation of the Stories of Old Daniel: Or Tale...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and entertaining parts of common life, brought forward i...Sydney Smith Lady Raffles[memoir of her husband Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles...Print: Book
1900-1945'The other day I read an article by Lady Roberts, quite a good one- but it does not help to demand that everybody should his share in the war. You have got to tell people...Lady RobertsunknownPrint: Newspaper


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