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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
 
1850-189920 December 1884: 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself with Miss Thackeray's sketches of Miss Edgeworth, M...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss Thackeray'sketch [of Amelia Opie]'Print: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to S. R. Masood, 8 March 1912: 'Have just dined with the Morisons -- a very interesting evening, and I had a long talk alone with Miss Wright about her w...Edward Morgan Forster Miss WrightpoemManuscript: Unknown
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1800-1849		The Cottagers of Glenburnie. 1 vol. by Miss Hamilton. A little tale tending to shew the folly of adhering to old customs merely because they have been habitual for many g...Ellen Weeton Miss Elizabeth HamiltonThe Cottagers of Glenburnie: A Tale for the FarmerPrint: Book
1800-1849'happiness is a very common plant...' 'e. smith's fragments' 'greenock'Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Miss Elizabeth SmithFragments of prose and verse: by a young ladyUnknown
1800-1849'the christain life may be compared...' 'e. smith's fragments'. followed by extract ascribed to 'hannah more' 'those who are rendered unhappy by frivolous troubles seek ...Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Miss Elizabeth SmithFragments of prose and verse: by a young ladyUnknown
1800-1849'the cause of all sin...' 'e.smith's fragments'. signed 'e.d.'Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Miss Elizabeth SmithFragments of prose and verse: by a young ladyUnknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, Will...Edward Morgan Forster Mme Augustine BulteauL'Ame des AnglaisPrint: Book
1700-1799?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.?Amelia Opie Mme de Genlis Print: Book
1800-1849'We arrived wet to the skin - I read nouvelle nouvelles and write my story'.Mary Godwin Mme de GenlisNouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849' At 2.30 went out to the library [..]Subscribed for a month [...] Came up to bed at 9.35. Sat up reading the first 79pp and several pages at the end of Amelie Mansfield....Anne Lister Mme Marie-Sophie CottinAmelie MansfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Janie [Jane-Simone Bussy]: when I was in the dismal dro...Virginia Woolf Moliere Le MisanthropePrint: Book
1800-1849'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...Alfred Tennyson Moliere  Print: Book
1700-1799'Besides studying Greek and Latin, Gifford learnt French and Spanish while at Oxford. He went through Moliere's plays twice and Voltaire's works once.'William Gifford Moliere playsPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 3 March 1930: 'Molly Hamilton writes a d----d bad novel. She has the wits to construct a method of telling a story; & then heaps it with the dreariest, most confus...Virginia Woolf Molly HamiltonunknownPrint: Book
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Molly MacCarthy Molly MacCarthyautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in...Charles Evans Molly Elliott SeawellThe Ladies' BattlePrint: Book
1900-1945'Long before I heard of Freud I was interested in reading accounts of first memories and impressions. My own experience had taught me that the roots of life were there bu...Molly V HughesLondon Child of the Seventies, AUnknown
1900-1945'If I enjoy a book I often write to its author. It seems to me a matter of politeness between one artist and another. Having read A London Child I wrote to Molly [Hughes]...Molly V HughesA London Child of the SeventiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'We belong to our time and the most we can achieve as a rule is to be a generation ahead of it; if we tear up our roots how many can exist merely on air? Yet if people wa...Molly V HughesLondon Child of the Seventies, AUnknown
1850-1899'We are ... to meet Moncure Conway.We have just been reading a very grand sermon of his on Darwinism.'Emma Darwin Moncure Daniel ConwayunknownPrint: Unknown


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