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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'Extremely hot even at Therapia. Back at 7 and dined at home and read the "Marriage of William Ashe".' Gertrude Bell Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) WardThe Marriage of William Ashe Print: Book
1850-1899'I am longing to hear what you think of "D.[David]G.[Grieve]" I read the first volume this morning — oh! how dull it is, how dull! how full of unnecessary detail, h...Gertrude Bell Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) WardA History of David GrievePrint: Book
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes throughout,including p.xiii: "[The author's husband] deeply disapproved of her pleasure-seeking ways at such a time [...] Her hospitality had ...George Otto Trevelyan Mary Boykin ChesnutA diary from DixiePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] May [1914]. Alice Ottley Memoir.
Pennell 10/6 Memoirs. at last!
Neve Kashmir
A woman in the antipodes & far east
    by Mary ...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Mary E. JamesAlice Ottley: First Headmistress of the Worcester ...Print: Book
1850-1899"Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S...Robert Blatchford Mary Elizabeth BraddonnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899"Mr. Gladstone left aside the cares of state by reading ... [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]."William Ewart Gladstone Mary Elizabeth BraddonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took...George Moore Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's SecretPrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took...George Moore Mary Elizabeth BraddonThe Doctor's WifePrint: Book
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing houseMary Elizabeth BraddonThe Outcasts or Henry DunbarPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story Teller", that she got from the public library. My fa...Polly Stamper Mary Elizabeth Braddon[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a nove...Joseph Stamper Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's SecretPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a nove...Polly Stamper Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's SecretPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly'John Buckley Castieau Mary Elizabeth BraddonMarried Beneath HimPrint: Book
1850-1899'Strangely, instead of Plato, took up "Lady Audley's Secret" this morning.'John Ruskin Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's SecretPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad Mary Elizabeth BraddonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Mary Elizabeth BraddonVixenPrint: Book
1850-1899Catherine A. Judd, "Male Pseudonyms and Female Authority in Victorian England": "In 1877 [Mary Ann] Evans wrote to her future sister-in-law Mary Findlay Cross that 'I rea...Mary Ann Evans Mary Finlay CrossstoryUnknown
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea...Grace Macaulay Mary Louisa MolesworthThe Cuckoo ClockPrint: Book
1850-1899'Afternoon stopped at home and finished "Cuckoo Clock"[...].' Gertrude Bell Mary Louise MolesworthThe Cuckoo ClockPrint: Book
1800-1849'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutled...Jane Baillie Welsh Mary Martha SherwoodThe Wishing CapPrint: BookManuscript: Letter


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