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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'I read "The Sun is My Undoing" - fast and very meaty. Intensely interesting - till 12 pm'.Hilary Spalding Marguerite SteenSun is my Undoing, ThePrint: Book
1900-19455 October 1933: 'I spent yesterday in bed; headache; infinite weariness up my back; clouds forming in my neck; half asleep; through the rift reading Steen (author of Stal...Virginia Woolf Marguerite SteenHugh Walpole: A StudyPrint: Book
1800-1849'With Madame de Staal's Memoirs, so strongly praised by the excellent Baron Grimm, I was a good deal disappointed: she has nothing to tell and does not tell it very well....Sydney Smith Marguerite de Launay, Baronne de StaalMemoiresPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 16 February 1850: 'A few days since a little incident happened which curiously touched me. Papa put into my hands a little packet of le...Charlotte Bronte Maria Branwellletters and papersManuscript: Letter, Unknown
1850-1899'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...'Florence White Maria CharlesworthMinistering ChildrenPrint: Book
1850-1899'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wide World".'Flora Thompson Maria CharlesworthMinistering ChildrenPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Maria Edgeworth[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Thomas Moore regularly read to his wife for two hours after dinner, at one point "going through Miss Edgeworth's works".'Thomas Moore Maria Edgeworth[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'On 30 May 1812 W[ordsworth] observed [regarding Maria Edgeworth] that "I had read but few of her works" ... 'William Wordsworth Maria EdgeworthunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde "Patronage" it is full of praises of Lord Ellenborough!!! from which I infer near & dear re...George Gordon Lord Byron Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac...Grace Macaulay Maria Edgeworth'The Purple Jar' in Every Child's StoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of Miss Edgeworth's pen were fascinating, and there were...Anne Lutton Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter September 1857 ? 'I hope you know Miss Edgeworths ?Helen?'.John Ruskin Maria EdgeworthHelenPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?Her next obvious defect (we hesitate to call it a defect) is a total moral inability to paint the strongest passion that can distract the human heart or agitate human li...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this bright image that she repeats it again in her Comic...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthBelindaPrint: Book
1800-1849?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this bright image that she repeats it again in her Comic...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthComic DramasPrint: Book
1800-1849?Miss Edgeworth?s incomparable description of Mrs Beaumont?s marriage in Manoeuvering, where the interesting, almost fainting, lady is lifted out of the arms of her anxio...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthTales of Fashionable LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Has heard story of Wellington] Is not this like the Irish Nurse in Ennui [this word underlined]? Emma told me when I said so, that it had struck her directly.'Sarah Harriet Burney Maria EdgeworthTales of Fashionable LifePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson notes John Horseman's annotation (including literary quotations and cross-references) of his copy of Maria Edgeworth, Letters for Literary Ladies (1799).John Horseman Maria EdgeworthLetters for Literary LadiesPrint: 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 Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book


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