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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'A notice appears on the board: "The Indian policemen on duty are Japanese subjects and you must obey them as you do the Japanese sentries. If internees do not bow to Ind...Thomas Kitching [unknown][notice]Unknown
1900-1945'The B-Block strip of grass between the high wall and the passage is now open. It is to be a haven of peace for readers and others. There is to be no talking. So there is...Thomas Kitching [unknown][notice]Unknown
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the fir...Samuel Romilly [unknown][novel by a lady novelist]Print: Book
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the fir...Anne Romilly [unknown][novel by a lady novelist]Print: Book
1850-1899'All day we sailed along an absolutely barren coast. A tiny fringe of green along the sand and then great mts with nothing but brown scrub upon them. It sometimes doesn't...Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[novel in Spanish]Print: Book
1700-1799'I read novels and poetry and began to contribute to Magazines and Diaries.'George Crabbe [Novels and poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '41. Low company, a harsh schoolmaster, attending theatres, reading novels, romances, etc.'anon [unknown][novels and romances]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery [novels for adults]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; and novels innumerabl...Mountstuart Elphinstone unknown[Novels innumerable]Print: Book
1850-1899'I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.'Margaret Oliphant Alphonse Daudet[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Austen and her family were] 'great novel readers and not ashamed of being so'.Jane Austen unknown[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Maria Edgeworth[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Regina Maria Roche[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Charlotte Smith[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Laetitia Matilda Hawkins[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Jane West[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Thomas Moore regularly read to his wife for two hours after dinner, at one point "going through Miss Edgeworth's works".'Thomas Moore Maria Edgeworth[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced P...Princess Charlotte Anne Plumptre[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ...Philip Inman Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By...James Murray Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book


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