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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
1850-1899		Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El...Ada Cambridge George Meredith[unknown]Print: Unknown
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1850-1899		Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El...Ada Cambridge Henry James Print: Unknown
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1850-1899		Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El...Ada Cambridge William Dean Howells Print: Unknown
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1850-1899		Elizabeth Segel, "As the Twig is Bent: Gender and Childhood Reading": "When Lucy Lyttelton's grandmother began reading aloud Adam Bede ... it was 'duly bowdlerized for ou...anon George EiiotAdam BedePrint: Unknown
1900-1945Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": " [Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alcott after having picked up at a seaside bookshop ...Melvyn Bragg Louisa May AlcottJo's BoysPrint: Book
1900-1945Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": " [Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alcott after having picked up at a seaside bookshop ...Melvyn Bragg Louisa May AlcottLittle WomenPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading," notes that Mary Ann Evans began reading Scott when aged seven.Mary Ann Evans Walter Scott Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".'George AnsonVoyage Round the WorldPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Elizabeth Sewell's brother William, seeing her reading Butler's "Analogy", exclaimed 'You can't understand that', which made her reticent for years about the comfort and ...Elizabeth Sewell Joseph ButlerThe Analogy of ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849Ellen Nussey's reminiscences of Patrick Bronte's sister-in-law Elizabeth Branwell (in 1871 account of her 1833 visit to Haworth Parsonage): 'In summer she spent part of t...Elizabeth Branwell  Unknown
1800-1849Emily Bronte, diary paper for 26 June 1837: 'Monday evening June 26 1837 A bit past 4 o'clock Charolotte [sic] working in Aunts room Branwell reading "Eugene Aram" to...Branwell Bronte Edward Bulwer-LyttonEugene AramPrint: Book
1800-1849Emily Bronte, diary paper for 30 July 1841 'It is Friday evening -- near 9 o'clock ... Aunt upstairs in her room -- she has been reading "Blackwood's Magazine" to papa .....Elizabeth Branwell Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Employed myself reading Constables Miscellany- voyages, mutinies and shipwrecks in the Southern OceanAdam Mackie Archibald ConstableMiscellanyPrint: Book
1800-1849Engaged in a 2nd perusal of the Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine I.G. Thomas James MathiasThe Pursuits of Literature; A Satirical PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849Engaged in a 2nd perusal of The Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine I.G. Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Enid Starkie, in "A Lady's Child" (1941) p.5: '[following childhood deprived of maternal affection] ... when I began to read French stories, those to which I returned mos...Enid Starkie French fictionPrint: Book
1800-1849Entered by Coleridge in Wordsworth Commonplace Book: 'O holy peace by thee are only found The passing joys that every where abound Sylvester'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joshua SylvesterO Holy PeaceManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945Entries in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1926) include passage on character in tragedy from Aristotle, Poetics.Edward Morgan Forster Aristotle PoeticsPrint: Book
1900-1945Er kehrt zum Vater wenn er die Erbs?nde verneint [...] Der Raum enth?lt in Nebeneinader was nur in zeitlicher Nacheinander erlebt werden kann [...] Gravitation, Symbo...James Joyce Otto Weinginer?ber die letzten DingePrint: Book
1600-1699Eve Cohan is taken to church by her Christian music master to hear the organ; a New Testament is 'secretly conveyed to her' and 'she took great delight in reading in it',...Eve Cohan BiblePrint: Book


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