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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
 
1850-1899'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'Flora Thompson M.L. MolesworthCuckoo ClockPrint: Book
1850-1899'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'Flora Thompson M.L. MolesworthCarrotsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls w...girls at the Passmore Edwards SettlementM.L. MolesworthCuckoo Clock, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding M.M. WerePoems of Contemporary WomenPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 5 December 1824: 'It amused me to open a new volume of Mme. Campan's journal at these wor...Harriet Countess Granville Madame CampanJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'I have read some of the romances of Madme d'Abrantes [...] Yes -- she is delightful.'Elizabeth Barrett Madame d'AbrantesromancesPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 28 May 1812: 'In the evening the Princess [?of Wales] read to us "Amelie de Mansfeldt."'Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales Madame de CottinAmelie de MansfeldtUnknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1812: '[Princess Charlotte] left between nine and ten o'clock [pm]. The Princess [?of Wales] then continued reading "Amelie de Mansfeldt."'Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales Madame de CottinAmelie de MansfeldtUnknown
1800-1849'"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure; and we chang...Austen familyMadame de GenlisAlphonsine, or Maternal AffectionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Having just finished the first volume of les Veillees du Chateau, I think it a good opportunity of beginning a letter to you while my mind is stored with Ideas worth tra...Jane Austen Madame de Genlisles Veillees du ChateauPrint: Book
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 Bar...Mary Wollstonecraft Madame de GenlisLetters on EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finis...Mary Godwin Madame de Genlis[possibly one of] Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvel...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 ...Mary Shelley Madame de GenlisMemoires inedits de madame la comtesse de GenlisPrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington Madame de GenlisReligion the only Basis of Happiness and true Phil...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 September 1838: 'I "remind you" to tell me all about Miss Landon's husband. I have a full conviction that he is the auth...Elizabeth Barrett Madame de GrandrionDuty and InclinationPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf Madame de La FayetteLa Princesse de ClevesPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'I want to read Byron's Letters, but I must go on with La Princesse de Cleves. This masterpiece has long been on my conscience. Me to talk of f...Virginia Woolf Madame de la FayetteLa Princesse de ClevesPrint: Book
1600-1699[from chapter entitled 'Aphra Behn'] 'One thing is certain, pure her mind was not, but tainted to the very core. She loved grossness for its own sake, because it w...Aphra Behn Madame de la Fayette Print: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 5 October 1799: 'Mentioning [...] [Madame de Coigny] puts me in mind of a book which I am now [italics]devouring[end italics] with delight, t...Mary Berry Madame de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to a friend, from Nice, March 1803: 'I am reading over for the fiftieth time, I believe, the letters of Madame de Sevigne. They always improve on me, and are...Mary Berry Madame De SevigneLettersPrint: Book


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