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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'I was reading in the headquarters shelter when the great man [the Brigadier-General] suddenly drew aside the sacking of the entrance, and gleamed stupendously in our can...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Though it is probably the mightiest mind ever engaged in our politics, & tho there seems to have been great elevation & principle in is views, I am struck with the very ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Edmund BurkeunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'very striking; it has his peculiar view of the identity of Church & Nation, & is very much against living exclusively in a religious church'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas ArnoldunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 23 December 1847:

'Is the forthcoming critique on Mr Thackeray's writings in the "Edinburgh Review" writte...		Charlotte Brontë Henry FieldingunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to George Henry Lewes, 12 January 1848:

'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say tha...		Charlotte Brontë George Sand (pseud.)unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'You need have no fear about my looking after myself and behaving myself May, because I only go out about 3 nights a week, and then usually by myself. I either walk round...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book, Newspaper
1850-1899'I read Plutarch, and drink cough mixtures.'Robert Louis Stevenson Plutarch unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks very much for your sympathetic book. It is vividly interesting (I am on p.70) and am flattered to think that its writer, who knows so much of human affairs, think...Joseph Conrad unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 31 July 1848:

'I never read Emerson; but the book which has had so healing an effect on your mind must be a good one [......		William Smith Williams Ralph Waldo EmersonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 16 April 1849:

'I like Carlyle better and better. His style I do not like, nor do I always concur in his opinions, nor qu...		Charlotte Brontë Thomas CarlyleunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 25 June 1849:

'I have always forgotten to acknowledge the receipt of the parcel [of books, regularly sent ...		Emily Brontë unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849James Chesterton Bradley to Robert Keating Smith, 3 May 1902:

'A short paper of yours in "The Tatler" of April 2nd brought before me my old friend James W[il...		James Chesterton Bradley and James William Smithunknown unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 10 September 1849:

'You are right about Goethe [...] he is clear, deep, but very cold. I acknowledge him g...		Charlotte Brontë Johann Wolfgang von GoetheunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 15 January 1850:

'I have received the "Morning Chronicle." I like Mr Thackeray's letter. As you say, it is manly; it breath...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace ThackerayunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, December 1851:

'You ask me about the "Lily and the Bee." If you have read it dear Ellen, you have effected an exploit bey...		Charlotte Brontë Samuel WarrenunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Mary Robinson, author of an early study of Emily Bronte, to Charlotte Bronte's friend Ellen Nussey, 5 April 1882:

'I am an architect's daughter and like th...		Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Charlotte BrontëunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Mary Robinson, author of an early study of Emily Bronte, to Charlotte Bronte's friend Ellen Nussey, 5 April 1882:

'I am an architect's daughter and like th...		Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Emily BrontëunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Mary Robinson, author of an early study of Emily Bronte, to Charlotte Bronte's friend Ellen Nussey, 5 April 1882:

'I am an architect's daughter and like th...		Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Anne BrontëunknownPrint: Book
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 Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Have lately been reading some very practical and spiritual treatises such as Shepherd on the Ten Virgins and my shortcomings make me almost weary of myself'Arabella Davies unknown ShepherdunknownPrint: Unknown


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