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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
 
1900-1945'But having time to write up this, with a letter or so,to fifnish the amazing "Ambassadors", as well as "Embarrassments" (I and III especially good) the unusual "[The] Ot...Ronald Storrs Leslie StephenunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'What a pathetic Essay the last volume of Leslie Stephen's. It is evidently a pouring out of his soul on his wife.'Emma Darwin Leslie Stephen Print: Book
1850-1899'Our ''stiff'' book is H. James' stories and our ''light'' one Leslie Stephen's ''Hours in a Library'' 3rd series. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety.'Emma Darwin Leslie StephenHours in a LibraryPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Record'; [text] 'He sleeps, his head upon his sword/ His soldier's cloak a shroud/ His churchyard is the open fie...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Letitia Elizabeth LandonThe recordPrint: Unknown
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Troubadour by L.E.L.'; [text] 'A poetical sketch of a picture by Howard/ the subject - fairies on the sea sh...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Letitia Elizabeth LandonThe Troubadour [extract]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 July 1841: 'Poor LEL! Just as she had outstretched her hand to touch nature, & to feel thrillingly there that is poetry...Elizabeth Barrett Letitia Elizabeth LandonpoemsPrint: Book
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines by LEL beginning 'It is the spirit’s bitterest pain / To love – to be beloved again'.Catherine Austen Letitia Elizabeth Landon L’Improvisatrice Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "On Sir Walter Scott" by LEL.Catherine Austen Letitia Elizabeth LandonOn Sir Walter ScottUnknown
1850-1899'My dear General Wallace, -- I sat up the night before last to finish your beautiful book, and I assure you I find it difficult to express my admiration of it. It is won...Earl Dufferin Lew WallaceBen-Hur, A Tale of the ChristPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'He [her father] gave me a copy of Lou Wallis's Ben Hur in a slip case and I put in my diary which you’ll find there [points to MS diary] that I ...Hilary Spalding Lew WallaceBen HurPrint: Book
1850-1899'I cannot resist the desire to thank you for one of the finest & loftiest works of historical imagination I have ever read.'Henry E. Card (?) Lew WallaceBen-HurPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pray make what use you like of the letter I wrote regarding Ben-Hur, to Lady Eardley. Few books that I have read have given me greater pleasure and I thoroughly appreci...John Vertue Lew WallaceBen-HurPrint: Book
1600-1699'I went into old William Hasleden's in Ashton; his wife was sicke and I read in the Practice of Pietie, and as I was reading she gave up the ghost.'Roger Lowe Lewis BaylyThe Practice of PietyPrint: Book
1850-1899'"Alice in Wonderland" we all knew practically by heart.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lewis CarrollAlice in WonderlandPrint: Book
1850-1899'one of the red-letter days of my life was a birthday when I received from my father "Through the Looking Glass". I...buried myself in it all afternoon, my pleasure enhan...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lewis CarrollThrough the Looking GlassPrint: Book
1900-1945'At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll to his daughters: "Then one could look at life and af...Jack Lawson Lewis Carroll Print: Book
1900-1945[Alice Foley's illiterate mother objected to silent reading but responded well to Alice's reading of Alice in Wonderland]: "To my surprise, mother entered quite briskly i...Alice Foley Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Lewis CarrollAlice in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Revised all day and was really sick of it. Got very stale & ended up by reading "Alice in Wonderland"! Much more refreshing than O.T.'Hilary Spalding Lewis CarrollAlice in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945[on bike, visiting friends] 'Learnt "Jabberwocky" on the way! Passers by must have thought me mad, book in one hand, bike handle in other, sailing down hill saying in lou...Hilary Spalding Lewis CarrollJabberwockyPrint: Book


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