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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Walter Scott Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, and am more and more delighted. I think that I even...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott[novels]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, and am more and more delighted. I think that I even...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott[poems]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so. The last are too hu...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so. The last are too hu...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottA Legend of MontrosePrint: Book
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one...Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read the conclusion, for the fifitieth time (I have read all W. Scott's novels at least fifty times...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottTales of my Landlord (3rd series)Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read the 4th. vol of W. Scott's second series of "Tales of my Landlord".'George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottTales of my Landlord (2nd series)Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at 8pm] -- read History of Greece -- beore dinner had r...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 February 1821: 'At nine [pm] went out -- at eleven returned ... Read "Tales of my Landlord" ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out Waverley and the Guy M[annering] -- and the Antiqua...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott[various novels]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay Walter Scott Print: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is...Rose Macaulay Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is...Rose Macaulay Walter ScottThe TalismanPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I...Philip Ballard Walter Scott Print: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark Walter Scott Print: Book
1850-1899'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a sol...H.M. Tomlinson Walter Scott Print: Book
1850-1899'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc...Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Walt Whitman ... recalled in old age ... [having read The Heart of Midlothian] "a dozen times or more"'.Walt Whitman Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book


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