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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
 
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 July 1757:] 'My mother's passion is feeding chickens, in this too I share with her, and we study the various characters of th...Catherine Talbot Sarah FieldingThe Lives of Cleopatra and OctaviaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have been reading David Simple, "which I like well enough, and think there are a great many good reflections to be made from it, and therefore very amusing."
...		Charles Russell Sarah FieldingThe Adventures of David SimplePrint: Book
1850-1899'May I say that the new story in the Magazine begins very well? - the incident is striking and I think quite original, though the name of the story might have been better...Margaret Oliphant Sarah GrandSingularly DeludedPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Sarah Hodgson BurnettLittle Princess, APrint: Book
1800-1849In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to all your married friends "Woman's Mission" a 3/6d boo...George Eliot [pseud] Sarah LewisWoman's MissionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Am reading "Snow Upon the Desert", by Miss Macnaughten, rather a jolly tale. Very good concert party here tonight, from the Canadian Corps.'Douglas Herbert Bell Sarah MacnaughtanSnow Upon the DesertPrint: Book
1700-1799 'A bookseller made me a present of 2 vols of a piece intitled, "A Journey thro' Life." My wife and girls, and Miss Collier say it is not very interesting, but has some ...Richardson's wife and daughtersSarah Scott (attrib)A Journey Thro' Every Stage of LifePrint: Book
1700-1799 'A bookseller made me a present of 2 vols of a piece intituled, A Journey thro' Life. My wife and girls, and Miss Collier say it is not very interesting, but has some m...Miss Collier Sarah Scott (attrib)A Journey Thro' Every Stage of LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructive and improving work, Sarah Trimmer's sacred history...John Larpent Sarah TrimmerSacred historyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructive and improving work, Sarah Trimmer's sacred history...Anna Larpent Sarah TrimmerSacred historyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruct...Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight.Sarah Trimmer'Selections [from the Bible]'Print: Book
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Go...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Sarah TrimmerAbridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Le...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		‘... [William] Roscoe’s “Butterfly's Ball” and Mrs. [Sarah] Trimmer’s “Flapsy and Pecksey” (which I am glad to see so kindly mentioned in the Doctor [by Robert Southey]...Hartley Coleridge Sarah TrimmerFabulous Histories, Designed for the Instruction o...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Letter]

'Here is a very pleasant letter from Sally to you, which we thought it was a pity should go for nothing, and so we opened it, and so we read it.'		Elizabeth Wedgwood Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood[Letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'But this is specially to thank you for the two books — the "Adding Machine" and "Men and Masses". Modern literature is very queer isn't it, but it's also extremely...Gertrude Bell Sarah Gertrude MillinGod's Step-ChildrenPrint: Book
1800-1849'We are reading Clarentine, & are surprised to find how foolish it is. I remember liking it much less on a 2d reading than at the 1st & it does not bear a 3d at all. It i...Jane Austen Sarah Harriet BurneyClarentine, A NovelPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Sarah Orne Jewett, 5 October 1901: 'Let me not [...] delay to thank you for your charming and generous present of "The Tory Lover" [her historical novel]. ...Henry James Sarah Orne JewettThe Tory LoverPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 8 March 1851:

'I have read "Rose Douglas" — read it with a tranquil but not a shallow pleasure; full well do I like...		Charlotte Brontë Sarah R. WhiteheadRose Douglas; or, Sketches of a Country Parish: be...Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 25 March 1852:

'I have lately read with great pleasure "The Two Families." This work, it seems, should have reached me ...		Charlotte Brontë Sarah R. WhiteheadThe Two FamiliesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am occupied a geat deal just now in reading a new novel called "Family Secrets", it is a compound of unnatural occurrences but being embarked on it I am dommed to wade...Thomas Fremantle Sarah Stickney EllisFamily SecretsPrint: Book


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