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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
 
1850-1899'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice ...William Somerset Maugham Walter Scott[Waverley novels]Print: Book
1850-1899The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through before breakfast, as I did when it appeared. I cann...Harriet Martineau Walter ScottnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899Harriet Martineau, in postscript to letter written in the month before her death, to 'Mr. Atkinson', 19 May 1876: 'I am in a state of amazement at a discovery just made; ...Harriet Martineau Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1850-1899'Once Laura had the honour of choosing two passages for the father of one of her friends, who had been invited to read and could not, as he said, think of anything likely...Flora Thompson Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'Ought I to be very much pleased with Marmion? - As yet I am not. James reads it aloud in the Eveng - the short Eveng - beginning at about 10, & broken by supper.'James Austen Walter ScottMarmion, or A Tale of Flodden FieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'We began Pease on Sunday, but our gatherings are very small - not at all like the gathering in the Lady of the Lake.'Jane Austen Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough- pardon the expression) whether I have read "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"- Alas only twice- And have, in addition, only the following catalogu...Sarah H. Burney Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Oh! Woman! In our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard to please...'[6 lines] 'Marmion'Carey/Maingay groupWalter ScottMarmion: A Tale of Flodden FieldPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read with Cecilia a good deal of "marmion" the new poem of Sir Walter Scott, which I like.'William Windham Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Stranger! If e'er thine ardent... Lord of the Isles 4th canto'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lord of the IslesUnknown
1800-1849'Call it not vain - they do not err, To murmur dirges round the grave.'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelUnknown
1800-1849'Arthur's seat like a couchant lion of immense size - Salisbury crags, like a huge [belt or] girdle of granite, were dimly visible. Sir Walter Scott'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Heart of Mid-LothianUnknown
1800-1849'"Call it not vain: - they do not err ... To murmur dirges round his grave". Scott.'Devereux Bowly Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelUnknown
1800-1849'Harp of the North! that mouldering long hath hung, ..'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lady of the LakeUnknown
1800-1849'Autumn departs - but still his mantles fold...' 'Introduction to the Lord of the Isles'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lord of the Isles (Canto One)Unknown
1850-1899'Prominent among these was a set of the poems of Walter Scott, and in his unwonted geniality and provisional spirit of compromise, my Father must do no less than read the...Philip Gosse Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks about 'Kenilworth a Romance'; he then describes his sto...[unknown student] anon Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through s...Thomas A. Jackson Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
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...Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: Book
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...Thomas A. Jackson Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: Book


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