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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?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brown himself as a Modern Tom Jones ? It certainly canno...Lady Caroline Lamb Sir Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Readers of my generation owe a great debt of gratitude to the enterprise of Messrs. Dicks. My first introduction to great fiction dates from the publication by them of S...Thomas Okey Sir Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th...Thomas Carlyle Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and M...acquaintances of Louisa StuartWalter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and M...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Waverley is so poor and dull.'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the retur...Anne Romilly Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Spent the evening at Home. Read portion of Waverley.'John Buckley Castieau Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[John Murray] was confirmed in his idea that Walter Scott was the author [of Waverley] after carefully reading the book. Canning called on Murray next day; said he had b...John Murray Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[John Murray] was confirmed in his idea that Walter Scott was the author [of Waverley] after carefully reading the book. Canning called on Murray next day; said he had b...Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1850-1899[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow"....Flora THompson Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'neither had read a romance since, in childhood, they had dipped into the "Waverley Novels" as they appeared in succession.'Philip and Emily GosseSir Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am still ... doing a pleasanter spell of work over the Waverley novels.'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottWaverley novelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ...John Buchan Walter ScottWaverley Novels (12)Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer and Waverly'Mary Shelley Walter ScottWaverley, or 'tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Walter ScottWaverley; or 'Tis Sixty Years Since
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plat...Mary Shelley Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book


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