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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849: 'The [French] President's letter from Rome has delighted us -- A letter worth writing and reading! ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLouis Napoleon Letter to Edgar NeyPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebastien Mercier's comedy "Mon Bonnet de Nuit", and the B...Mary Wollstonecraft Louis Sebastien MercierMon Bonnet de NuitPrint: Book
1800-1849'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols...Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Adolphe ThiersHistoire de la Revolution FrancaisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Bourrienne's Memoirs? Sick as I thought myself of Buonaparte and all that related to his tremendous though short-lived success (I always consider him as a ...Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Antoine Fauvelet de BourrienneMemoiresPrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1754: 'Did you ever read a little French book called Theorie des Sentimens Agreables? [...] I have some curiosity abo...anon Louis-Jean Lévesque de PouillyTheorie des sentimens agréablesPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 March 1754: '"Theorie des Sentimens Agreables" I have read some years ago, and quite forget. It made no deep impression upon m...Catherine Talbot Louis-Jean Lévesque de PouillyTheorie des sentimens agreablesPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Prud'homme aloud to us'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Louis-Marie Prudhomme[unknown, possibly one of his French revolutionary...Print: Book
1900-1945'My gouty wrist has kept me from thanking you immediately for the volume of poems that you so kindly sent me. [...] What more can I say to give you an idea of the pleasur...Joseph Conrad Louis-Marie-Emile RochéTemps perduPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters and since then read Anquetil's "Louis XIV Sa Cour et le Regent" - A most admirably entertaining work in four moderate litt...Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Pierre AnquetilLouis XIV, Sa Cour et le RegentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's letters, and since then read Anquetils' "Louis XIV, Sa Cour, et le Regent". - a most admirably entertaining work, in four moderate...Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Pierre AnquetilLouis XIV, sa cour et le RegentPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clou...		Mary S. Stansfield Louisa AlcottLittle Women Print: Book
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Louisa May AlcottLittle WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Louisa May AlcottGood WivesPrint: Book
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...Patricia Beer Louisa May AlcottLittle WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has read Seebohm Rowntree's "Poverty" and a basic economics...questionaire respondent Louisa May AlcottLittle WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "David Copperfield", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Lorna...questionaire respondent Louisa May Alcott[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Constance Smedley's favourite childhood reading was ... Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868-9)'Constance Smedley Louisa May AlcottLittle WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": " [Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alcott after having picked up at a seaside bookshop ...Melvyn Bragg Louisa May AlcottJo's BoysPrint: Book
1900-1945Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": " [Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alcott after having picked up at a seaside bookshop ...Melvyn Bragg Louisa May AlcottLittle WomenPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From chapter entitled 'Conversations' in Maria Weston Chapman's 'Memorials' of Harriet Martineau: 'Reading an article of Miss Alcott's, she [Martineau] says, "Transcenden...Harriet Martineau Louisa May AlcottTranscendental Wild Oats (article)Print: Unknown


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