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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
 
1850-1899Ditto marks underneath the words: 'June (-July with Winnie and Edith)'Sarah Good William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read "The Merry Wives of Windsor" wherein I think the genius of the author shows itself in a very conspicuous manner as to humour. But I cannot find in my heart to say I...Thomas Turner William ShakespeareThe Merry Wives of WindsorPrint: Book
1850-189915 October 1879, from Berlin: 'Since dinner I have read the Merry Wives of Windsor with great delight. I have been going through the historical plays of Shakespeare fr...Lady Charlotte Schreiber William ShakespeareThe Merry Wives of WindsorPrint: Book
1850-1899'You asked me about the ''Message of Israel''. I believe no books now affect me any more than by a transient interest. It did draw my attention to some sublime bits in th...Emma Darwin Julia WedgwoodThe Message of Israel in the Light of Modern Criti...Print: Book
1850-1899'March at S. Martin's Lodge Scarborough'Sarah Good Charles MackarnessThe Message of the Prayer BookPrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockThe MessiahPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 14 September 1834: 'Have you seen a poetical translation of Klopstock's messiah, the performance of a lady residing close t...Elizabeth Barrett Gottlieb Friedrich KlopstockThe MessiahPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'I am already deep in The Piddle Years [sic]. I never find Henry James difficult to understand, though it [italics]...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe Middle YearsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'Mary Godwin Charles R. MaturinThe Milesian ChiefPrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier George EliotThe Mill on the FlossPrint: Book
1850-1899'On 12 May [1890 Grace Macaulay] recalls that she "read part of Mill on Floss to children in aft, to their delight".'Grace Macaulay George EliotThe Mill on the FlossPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Jane Ellen Harrison, in Reminiscences of a Student's Life (1925) 11-12: "'Until I met Aunt Glegg in the Mill on the Floss, I never knew myself. I am Aunt Glegg; with all...Jane Ellen Harrison George EliotThe Mill on the FlossPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
    Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced t...		Francis E. Pollard George Eliot (pseud.)The Mill on the FlossPrint: Book
1850-1899'G. Elliot, The Mill on the Floss'Sarah Good George EliotThe Mill on the FlossPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 26 December 1801: 'After tea we sate by the fire comfortably. I read aloud The Miller's Tale.'Dorothy Wordsworth Geoffrey ChaucerThe Miller's TalePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"I have been laughed at unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages around the library table for my impatience to send you The Mine. Do you think Margaret cannot li...Maria Edgeworth John SargentThe Mine; to which are added two historic odes (Th...Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 7 December 1886: "The last thing I did before leaving London three days and a half ago was to purchase 'Lemuel Barker' ... and though ...Henry James William Dean HowellsThe Minister's ChargePrint: Book
1900-1945'First I must tell you that I have read, with immense satisfaction, the "Minor Moralist". It is excellent. I think perhaps the best of all is the essay on Manners. In my ...Gertrude Bell Florence BellThe Minor Moralist: Some essays on the art of ever...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Foote's "Farce of the Minor"; I do not admire it near as much as I do the Mayor of Garratt.'Joseph Hunter Samuel FooteThe Minor, A ComedyPrint: Book
1800-1849'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was...Thomas Carter [unknown]The MinstrelPrint: Book


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