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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'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 ...Maria EdgeworthHarry and LucyPrint: 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 ...Maria EdgeworthHarry and LucyPrint: 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 ...children of Anne RomillyMaria EdgeworthRosamondPrint: Book
1800-1849'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Pu...Anne Romilly Maria Edgeworth[review of 'Les Peines et les Recompenses']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have just been beset by two of my little boys who are deep in your little books and who beg that I will give their very best love to you. One of them, 4 and a half, sa...two sons of Anne RomillyMaria Edgeworth[children's books]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just been beset by two of my little boys who are deep in your little books and who beg that I will give their very best love to you. One of them, 4 and a half, sa...Maria EdgeworthRosamondPrint: Book
1800-1849'I wish you had been present when I opened the parcel and read the title page, the exclamations, the elevated voices, the "O Mama pray let me look" and "O Mama may [itali...Anne Romilly Maria Edgeworth[title page of a children's book]Print: Book
1800-1849'One amongst the innumerable excellent things I have learnt from Practical Education is to consider what is passing in the child's mind at the moment, and I am sure this ...Anne Romilly Maria EdgeworthPractical EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Plays for Children". Those of Madame de Genlis have alw...Anne Romilly Maria EdgeworthOld PozPrint: Book
1850-1899'Dream of being at court of Louis XV, in consequence of reading "Ormond".'John Ruskin Maria EdgeworthOrmondPrint: Book
1850-1899'exciting discoveries of things in "Harry and Lucy" at coffee'John Ruskin Maria EdgeworthHarry and LucyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott childrenMaria EdgeworthRosamondPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott childrenMaria Edgeworth[?The] Purple JarPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott childrenMaria EdgeworthSimple SusanPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Walter Scott Maria EdgeworthSimple SusanPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Walter Scott Maria EdgeworthRosamondPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Walter Scott Maria Edgeworth[?The] Purple JarPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Walter Scott Maria EdgeworthHarry and LucyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The house in which I was born was ... a two-centuries-old Georgian mansion, a barrack of a place that seemed even larger in my juvenile perspective than it actually was ...Desmond Malone Maria EdgeworthThe AbsenteePrint: 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...		Violet Clough Maria EdgeworthMoral Tales for Young PeoplePrint: Book


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