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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"I am writing this on the Maid's tragedy which I have read since tea with great pleasure - Besides this volume of Beaumont & Fletcher - there are on the table two vol...John Keats Thomas MooreTom Cribb's Memorial to CongressPrint: Book
1850-1899'climbing to the top of a bookcase, [he] brought down a thick volume and presented it to me. "You'll find all about the Antilles there", he said, and left me with "Tom Cr...Edmund Gosse Michael ScottTom Cringle's LogPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843: 'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must try to get thro' the thorns & read him. I tried on...Elizabeth Barrett Michael ScottTom Cringle's LogPrint: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song...Samuel Bamford anonTom HickathriftPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less...Margaret Oliphant Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Jones recalled that his mother, a Rhymney straw-hat maker, "was fifty before she read a novel and to her dying day she had not completely grasped the nature of fi...Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 25 November 1800: 'Very ill ... better in the Evening -- read Tom Jones ...'Dorothy Wordsworth Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31).Beryl Lee Booker Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1900-1945"Je relis 'Tom Jones'. En effet, c'est ?patant". [I am re-reading "Tom Jones". In fact, it is astonishing'] Arnold Bennett Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'as soon as he was gone I finished Cigar read a few Pages of "Tom Jones" & went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1900-1945' I've read a lot, Boswell, de Quincy, Tom Jones, Plutarch. One sits in the sun until the heat of it drives one indoors again.'Vita Sackville-West Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom Jones this afternoon.'John Buchan Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and the other on his achievement. [read Tom Jones & Evan H...Edward Morgan Forster Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being...Samuel Johnson Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being...James Boswell Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox [sic], Smollet & Fieldin...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes th...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1900-1945Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, mainsails and fore-tops easily identified, had grown ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Mark TwainTom SawyerPrint: Book


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