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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
 
1800-1849'Thursday Nov. [...] 17th. [...] Read after dinner Rosamond to the children.'Claire Clairmont Maria EdgeworthRosamond: A Sequel to Early LessonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon women.'Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'The Nine Days' Wonder'Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Nov. [...] 24th. [...] a letter came from Mr. Baxter with english books for John. Read a little of the Black Lane in Rosamond to him.'Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'The Black Lane'Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria E...John Wilson Croker Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French): 'My very dear Mama / Excuse me, I do not at all like Manoeuvring, it is not to my...Elizabeth Barrett Maria EdgeworthManoeuvringPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French): 'I agree that Caroline [in Edgeworth's Patronage] is perfection. I admit that sh...Elizabeth Barrett Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849Arabella Moulton Barrett to her sister Elizabeth Barrett, c. August 1819: 'do you rememb'r simple susan and whim and contradiction I have just read them'. ...Arabella Moulton-Barrett Maria Edgeworth"Simple Susan"Print: Book
1800-1849Henrietta Moulton-Barrett to Elizabeth Barrett, 24 February 1827: 'About an hour after your departure [for Eastnor Castle on 23 February] [...] I was sitting alone in ...Henrietta Moulton-Barrett Maria EdgeworthHarry and LucyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been, and am now, in the midst of reading Miss Edgeworth's 4th, 5th, and 6th vols of "Tales of Fashionable Life". I don't enter into disquisitions about whether t...Sir William Elford Maria EdgeworthTales of Fashionable LifePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843: '[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirable -- but I cannot say, poetical or passionate [......Elizabeth Barrett Maria Edgeworth'The Cherry Orchard'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843: '[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirable -- but I cannot say, poetical or passionate [......Elizabeth Barrett Maria Edgeworth'Rosamond'Print: Book
1800-1849'I hope, that considering the thickness of the Volumes, and the impossibility of reading any work of Miss Edgeworth's with the carelessness and haste a common Novel may b...Sarah Harriet Burney Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Miss Edgeworth's Popular Tales for the Young with thorough gusto.'Robert Louis Stevenson Maria EdgeworthMoral Tales for Young PeoplePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am now labouring very hard at "Patronage", which, I must honestly confess, is the greatest lump of cold lead I ever attempted to swallow. Truth, nature, life, and sens...Susan Ferrier Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845: 'I do not know Charlotte Smith's books for children. I read myself Mrs. Barbauld's '"Come hither Char...Elizabeth Barrett Maria EdgeworthEarly LessonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Miss Edgeworth's dramas'.George Crabbe Maria Edgeworth[Dramas]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the books my friends kindly sent me to while away time wa...Louisa, Lady Stuart Maria Edgeworth[Novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'I was indeed surprised to find my name in "Patronage" but my surprise was principally caused by finding such honourable mention made of me and by seeing myself in compan...Samuel Romilly Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the fir...Anne Romilly Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder ...elder children of Anne RomillyMaria Edgeworth[various books]Print: Book


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