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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'My dear Miss Mitford, May I be permitted to address thus familiarly a lady with whom, though not personally acquainted, I have long been on terms of intimacy, and for wh...Emma Roberts Mary Russell MitfordworksPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It has made me extravagant, for I have ordered the four other volumes. the work is perfectly unique. I know nothing like it in any language, and it is among the few to ...Fanny Trollope Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'I was reading your inimitable description of Dora Creswell the other day to a friend of mine who was confined to his bed by illness. He laughed and cried by turns, and a...Catharine M. Sedgwick Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'Dear Miss Mitford, I rejoice in finding an occasion to address you, that I may express the very great pleasure both my husband and myself have always derived from your w...Mary Howitt Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'The most truly English sketches in the language are your country volumes. Well, through these volumes we have been wending this winter. We had read them before, and many...Mary and William HowittMary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes, and was amused, and on the whole much pleased with ...Barbara Hofland Mary Russell MitfordBelford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country TownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Our little community have been delighting themselves with your "Belford Regis"; accept their untied thanks for it [...] The book is republished rather shabbily by Carey....Catharine Sedgwick Mary Russell MitfordBelford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country TownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Your last book still rolls on, gathering golden opinions, and I for one thank you, for I have been passing the last fortnight in the country, and perhaps there is no boo...N.P. Willis Mary Russell MitfordBelford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country TownPrint: Book
1800-1849'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you why. It is one of those cheerful, spirited works, fu...Alfred Howitt Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you why. It is one of those cheerful, spirited works, fu...Miss Howitt Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so still. It is a glorious thing. I like Bulwer's too, v...Mary Howitt Mary Russell MitfordRienziPrint: Book
1800-1849'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource for me but the officers' little library. Therefore I...John Mitchel Mary SchweidlerThe Amber WitchPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mary Leadbeter! - Yes indeed I do well remember You! not Leadbeter then, but a pretty demure Lass, standing a timid Auditor while her own Verses were read by a kind Frie...Mary Shackleton Mary Shackleton[verses]Unknown
1800-1849On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the end. My energies felt dead within me: & how could I...Elizabeth Barrett Mary ShelleyThe Last ManPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hist. of [French]. Rev. and corrects F. write Preface'Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary ShelleyFrankensteinManuscript: Unknown, Mary Shelley's MS
1800-1849'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where Clairmont received all mail] and found a letter from Mary. Got into the...Claire Clairmont Mary ShelleyLetter to Claire ClairmontManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where Clairmont received all mail] and found a letter from Mary. Got into the...Claire Clairmont Mary ShelleyLetter to Claire ClairmontManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Read to Mrs G.[isborne]'Mary Shelley Mary ShelleyValpergaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'read Matilda to Jane'Mary Shelley Mary ShelleyMatildaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Matilda to E.'Mary Shelley Mary ShelleyMatildaManuscript: Unknown


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