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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
 
1850-1899'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.'Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1900-1945'Today I finished "Wuthering Heights" and began "Villette". I must try and get a set of the Bronte books as soon as I can - they are most refreshing and not a bit old fa...Hilary Spalding Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Villette", and went fast asleep on couch.'Hilary Spalding Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1800-1849'O! "Esmond"! That book marks its own year in one's life. I never did any justice to Thackeray before; and I cannot now read "Vanity Fair". But the pub...Harriet Martineau Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Charlotte Bronte] has had an uncomfortable kind of coolness with Miss Martineau, on account of some [italics] very [end italics] disagreeable remarks Miss M. made o...Harriet Martineau Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I put all my goodness. I am sure that she works off a great deal that...Lady Kay-Shuttleworth Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I put all my goodness. I am sure that she works off a great deal that...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1900-1945'By this time you will probably have finished reading "Villette". What do you think of the ending? I can just hear you saying "Cracked — absolutely!" It certainly is mo...Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte BrontėVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'Villette was published on January 28th, 1853 [...] George Eliot wrote enthusiastically to Mrs Bray, "I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for...George Eliot (pseud.) Charlotte BrontëVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899Catherine Winkworth to Emma Shaen, 23 March 1853:

'I made up my mind not to write to you again till I had read "Villette" and now I have finished it [...] ...		Catherine Winkworth Charlotte BrontëVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899Margaret Wooler, Charlotte Bronte's former schoolteacher, to Ellen Nussey, another former pupil (1857):

'Did I name to you that Mrs E. Gibson knows two or ...		'young ladies'Charlotte BrontëVillettePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

2. The m...		Margaret Dilks Charlotte BrontėVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'Villette'Sarah Good Charlotte BrontėVillettePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame is the motive, it is the reward, of our labours: nor...Thomas Babington Macaulay Edward GibbonVindicationPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles ButlerVindication of "The Book of the Roman Catholic Chu...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read Burke's "Vindication of Natural Society". Except in parts (as in the opening and ending) I cannot think that this piece has much of Bolingbroke's style and manner....Thomas Green Edmund BurkeVindication of Natural SocietyPrint: Book
1800-1849'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were never written by the same person. If I mistake not -...Thomas Carlyle Thomas M'CrieVindication of the CovenantersPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Mary WollstonecraftVindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'read rights of women'Mary Godwin Mary WollstonecraftVindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Rights of woman - Opuscula of Cicero'Mary Godwin Mary WollstonecraftVindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book


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