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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'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the s...Jennie Lee Marie Stopes[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'when Gladys [Teal] took a job at a draper's shop around 1930, a female assistant gave her a Marie Stopes book on birth control , which she gratefully read'.Gladys Teal Marie Stopes[book on birth control]Print: Book
1900-1945'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually...Margaret Powell Marie Stopes[book on sex]Print: Book
1900-1945'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from G., who described the contrasting practice of the S...Vera Brittain Marie Tempest[letter published in the "Sunday "Times"]Print: Newspaper, Unknown
1900-1945'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from G., who described the contrasting practice of the S...Vera Brittain Marie Tempest[Letter published in the "Sunday Times"]Print: Newspaper, Unknown
1800-1849'We have a little French story in the house, called [underlined] Elizabeth [end underlining], much admired and praised: but "somehow", I have taken it into my head that i...Anna Wilbraham Marie "Sophie" CottinElisabeth, ou les Exiles de SiberiePrint: Book
1800-1849'[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over again, and also Madame du Deffand's Letters to him, and...Marie Anne de Vichy-Chambrond, Marquise du DeffandLetters of the Marquise du Deffand to the Hon. Hor...Print: Book
1800-1849'[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over again, and also Madame du Deffand's Letters to him, and...Marie Anne de Vichy-Chambrond, Marquise du Deffand[Letters to Voltaire]Print: Book
1900-1945'Read I, Too have lived in Arcadia, by Mrs Belloc Lowndes. All about her parents.'Vere Hodgson Marie Belloc LowndesI, Too Have Lived in Arcadia: A Record of Love and...Print: Book
1900-1945'Have had good luck with a Library book. Managed to get Where Love and Friendship Meet by Mrs Belloc Lowndes. It is the latest story of the Belloc family, and present...Vere Hodgson Marie Belloc LowndesWhere Love and Friendship DweltPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of lines by '"Maria Blanche - eldest daughter of Madame de Grignan. She became a Nun in the Conven...Marie Blanche de GrignanunidentifiedUnknown
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 Marie de Rabutin - Chantal, marquise de SevigneLetters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and h...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Horace and Lettres de Sevigne'Mary Shelley Marie de Rabutin Chantal, Marquise de SevigneLettresPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, from Cuddesdon, 21 July 1753, in account of a day excursion in the local countryside (around Oxford): 'Yesterday we set off soon ...Catherine Talbot and familyMarie de Rabutin-Chantal de SevigneLetters (vol. 7)Print: Book
1700-1799'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion given of the French manner tho' written in the middle re...Samuel Richardson Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'March 1837'. Transcription of various of Madame de Sévigné's letters.Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de SévignéThe Letters of Madame de Sévigné, to her Daughter ...Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Of M. De Glessir, Tutor to the young Marquis Grignan (Admirable advice!), "The Chevalier is of more use to the ...Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de SévignéThe Letters of Madame de Sévigné, to her Daughter ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I only divide my time between riding Peggy and reading Sevigne by the fire...'Elizabeth Wedgwood Marie de Rabutin-Chantal SevigneCourt Secrets: or the Lady's Chronicle Historical ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am also reading an English translation of Mme de Sevigne and like it very much.'Charles Darwin Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SévignéLetters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and h...Print: Book
1700-1799'Looked over a Volume of "Lettres Choisies de Mesdames Sevigne et Maintenon"...'Thomas Green Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise S?vignLettres choisies de Mesdames de Sevign? et de MainPrint: Book



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