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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'By the way did you know Miss Austen Authoress of some novels which have a great deal of nature in them - nature in ordinary and middle life to be sure but valuable from ...Sir Walter Scott Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to any thing Man, vain Man, has produced of the like nat...Sir Walter Scott Maria Edgeworth[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to any thing Man, vain Man, has produced of the like nat...Sir Walter Scott Susan Ferrier[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture o...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Voltaire (pseud.)[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At this time I read all Mrs. Henry Wood's novels, most o...Hannah Mitchell Mrs. Henry Wood[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish to read the same book a second time, as my choice is... [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish to read the same book a second time, as my choice is... [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sent...Edwin Muir [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some old volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in ...Thomas A. Jackson Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes
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...Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected and bound into four volumes
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...William Makepeace Thackeray[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story Teller", that she got from the public library. My fa...Polly Stamper Mary Elizabeth Braddon[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story Teller", that she got from the public library. My fa...Polly Stamper Mrs Henry Wood[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Accept my sincere thanks for the pleasure your Volumes have given me: in the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write & say so.'James Stanier Clarke Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Briton" from the publisher of it, Mr Kearsley in Ludga...James Boswell [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1800-1849Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard for Sunday than I had been accustomed to. By degree...anon [unknown][novels]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Like most of those capable of appreciating real literature, Lady Louisa enjoyed novels of almost any description; admitting her taste with unusual frankness: "I did n...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][novels]Print: 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...Mrs Weddell Daniel Defoe[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish i...Louisa, Lady Stuart Anne Racliffe[Novels]Print: Book


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