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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899 1900-1945	'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe...	Mark Tellar	Mrs Henry Wood	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Lady Cynthia Asquith's diary recorded about one January Sunday in 1917, "Stayed in bed until dinner. I read 'East Lynne' till my eyes ached."'	Lady Cynthia Asquith	Mrs Henry Wood	East Lynne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Annie Swan [from Leith] ... vividly recalled the occasion when her mother "surprised us all by retiring to her room for a whole day, abandoning everything. The mystery ...	Mrs Swan	Mrs Henry Wood	East Lynne	Print: Book
	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	Mrs Henry Wood	[novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'there is unlimited room for reading between these well-known and monotonous banks. The Prince set his mind on my reading "East Lynne", which I did at three sittings. Yes...	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	Mrs Henry Wood	East Lynne	Print: Book
	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	Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood	East Lynne	Print: Book
	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...	Joseph Stamper	Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood	East Lynne	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	Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood	The Channings	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...	Polly Stamper	Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood	The Channings	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"When ... [Mrs Humphrey Ward] read aloud from Canadian Born (1910) to the assembled guests at Lord Stanley's part at Alderley Park, the verdict was that 'it was terribly ...	Mrs Humphrey Ward	Mrs Humphrey Ward	Canadian Born	Unknown
	1850-1899	' ... [Gladstone] was disappointed by ... "The History of David Grieve" (1892), though he read it all ...'	William Ewart Gladstone	Mrs Humphry Ward	The History of David Grieve	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' ... [Virginia Woolf] was liable to blame Mrs [Humphry] Ward for her own periods of sterility as a writer: "How I dislike writing straight after reading Mrs H. Ward! -- ...	Virginia Woolf	Mrs Humphry Ward		Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Mrs Humphry Ward, 9 December 1884: "I read ... [Miss Bretherton] with great interest and pleasure ..."	Henry James	Mrs Humphry Ward	Miss Bretherton	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 21 September 1919: 'By paying 5/ I have become a member of the Lewes public library. It is an amusing place -- full of old ghosts; books half way to decomposition ...	Virginia Woolf	Mrs Humphry Ward	A Writer's Recollections	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Writer's Recollections, by Mrs Humphry Ward, had been published in the autumn of 1918. V[irginia] W[oolf] had read it then'.	Virginia Woolf	Mrs Humphry Ward	A Writer's Recollections	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read "The Coryston Family". Was again fitted with a uniform. Wrote to Mrs Davies.'	John Frederick William Dunn	Mrs Humphry Ward	The Coryston Family	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Do you know the prose of Wilfred Whitten? If not read pp. 229-30 of Mrs. Laurence Binyon?s Nineteenth Century Prose (Methuens, 1907).'	Arnold Bennett	Mrs Laurence Binyon	Nineteenth Century Prose	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...	Patricia Beer	Mrs O.F. Walton	Christie's Old Organ; or, Home Sweet Home	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories wi...	children and mothers	Mrs O.F. Walton	Christie's Old Organ	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...	Marjory Todd	Mrs O.F. Walton	[pious novels]	Print: Book

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