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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'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
A. G Joselin in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved

2. Apolo...		Margaret Dilks Mr. and Mrs Knox Taylor[Note giving apologies for absence]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I am very curious to see Mrs Montagu's catalogue of duties: so take care that you do not light your pipe with the letter. I have heard from the "noble Lady" again, and ...Jane Baillie Welsh Mrs MontaguLetter dated 13 JuneManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Mrs Brooke Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 30 June 1843: 'I honor Mrs Coleridge for the readiness of reasoning & integrity in her reasoning, for the learning, energy & impart...Elizabeth Barrett Mrs Coleridge'On Rationalism'Print: Book
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818: 'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been reading Walter Scott's edition of Swift, which, an...George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales Mrs Delanyletter containing account of Royal visitManuscript: Letter, Copied.
1900-1945[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to go on reading things miles away -- beautiful hard wo...Virginia Woolf Mrs EasdaleMiddle Age: 1885-1932Print: Book
1850-1899[following journal entry for 15 October 1879] 'A few days later Lady Charlotte was immersed in Mrs. Edwards' Selections from the Poets.'Lady Charlotte Schreiber Mrs Edwards, ed.Selections from the PoetsPrint: Book
1850-189918 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, with great delight, Thackeray's Esmond. Since I left ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Mrs ElliotOld Court Life in FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834): 'The anxiety of the last two months has given me an impossibility of feeling happy [...] I make...Harriet Countess Granville Mrs Fry Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834): 'The anxiety of the last two months has given me an impossibility of feeling happy [...] The ...Harriet Countess Granville Mrs Fry Print: Book
1850-1899'She [a Mrs Granville, nee Wheler] had been a great friend of the Miss Porters (Jane and Anna Maria) in girlhood; and it was perhaps owing to their example that she had t...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Mrs Granville[tales]Print: Book
1700-1799'I cannot, except my own Countrywoman, Mrs [italics] Grierson [end italics], find out another female Writer, whose Works are worth reading, she indeed had a happy and wel...Laetitia Pilkington Mrs Grierson[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Fetched the "Castle of Mowbray" from Lindley's Library; a very silly Love tale. Took the "Castle of Otranto" to the Library. It is one of the most entertaining novels I ...Joseph Hunter Mrs HarleyThe Castle of MowbrayPrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale Mrs JamesonCharacteristics of WomenPrint: Book
1800-1849Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson: 'I have been reading Mrs Jameson's Characteristics, and I am so bewildered with similes about groves and violets, and streams of musi...Arthur Hallam Mrs JamesonCharacteristicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'When, in the course of a year or two, we removed to the vicinity of Edinburgh, matters in respect of books brightened a little. I then obtained access to a greater varie...James Glass Bertram Mrs JohnstoneThe SchoolmasterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It was in the autumn of 1827, I think, that a neighbour lent my [Harriet Martineau's] sister Mrs. Marcet's "Conversations on Political Economy." I took up the book, chi...Harriet Martineau Mrs MarcetConversations on Political EconomyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of study included -- besides English history and exercises...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mrs MarcetConversations on ChemistryPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of study included -- besides English history and exercises...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mrs MarcetConversations on Political EconomyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I [Harriet Martineau] was spending a couple of days at Mrs. Marsh's, when she asked me whether I would let her read to me "one or two little stories" which she had writt...Mrs Marsh Mrs MarshThe Admiral's DaughterManuscript: Unknown


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