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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 always meant to ask you whether you read "Fidelity" by Susan Glaspell — of course you did, and didn't you think it excellent?'Gertrude Bell Susan GlaspellFidelityPrint: Book
1900-1945'I always meant to ask you whether you read "Fidelity" by Susan Glaspell — of course you did, and didn't you think it excellent? 'Gertrude Bell Susan GlaspellFidelityPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've just read Susan Townley's book — what poor stuff, isn't it. How can people write and publishers publish such feeble tosh. And then the reviews have the audaci...Gertrude Bell Susan TownleyThe 'Indiscretions' of Lady SusanPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...'Florence White Susan WarnerThe Wide, Wide WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...'Florence White Susan WarnerQueechyPrint: Book
1900-1945"Christine Longford, having read The Wide, Wide World in the first decade of the twentieth century, recalled that she had been especially impressed by the passage in whic...Christine Longford Susan WarnerThe Wide, Wide WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Susan WarnerThe Wide Wide WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sorts of people, exactly as if I were reading a story ab...Gwen Raverat Susan WarnerThe Wide Wide WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as the sister of David Wilkie. Never was there such a p...James Hogg Susan Edmonstone FerrierMarriagePrint: Book
1800-1849'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as the sister of David Wilkie. Never was there such a p...James Hogg Susan Edmonstone FerrierInheritance, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Susan M. CoolidgeWhat Katy DidPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Tear' 'When the soft tear steals silently from the eye/...'Carey/Maingay groupSusanna Blamire'When The Soft Tear Steals Silently'Print: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'Your "Daniel Deronda" is uncommonly jolly, and right. I don’t know that you’ve ever written anything which pleased me so much. You might have pitched it stronger about t...Robert Louis Stevenson Sydney ColvinReview of George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 25 October 1850:

'The box of books came last night [...] Jeffrey's Essays, Dr Arnold's Life, the Roman, Al...		Charlotte Brontë Sydney Dobell'The Roman'Print: Book
1850-1899

[Charlotte Bronte to Sydney Dobell, 3 February 1854:]


'"Balder" arrived safely. I looked at him, before cutting his leaves, with singular pleasure [...]...

Charlotte Bronte Sydney DobellBalderPrint: Book
1800-1849'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have made me pity her, for she is very flippant and full of ...Anne Romilly Sydney MorganFrancePrint: Book
1800-1849''We talked a great deal of our poor friend, Lady E[-], and lady [-] said she thought the portrait of Imogen, in the Novice of St Dominic, was a fac-simile of her charact...Lady [-] Sydney OwensenNovice of St Dominic, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athens" by Miss Owenson; which must be very clever, becau...Austen FamilySydney OwensonWoman, or Ida of AthensPrint: Book
1800-1849'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athens" by Miss Owenson; which must be very clever, becau...Jane Austen Sydney OwensonThe Wild Irish GirlPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel'Mary Godwin Sydney OwensonO'Donnel: a national talePrint: Book


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