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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
 
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 17 August 1848:

'I will not return Charles Lamb [i.e. a book], for in truth he is very welcome. I saw a review with extract...		Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[review of work by/relating to Charles Lamb]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I try and find out the places where Mr Forster said I strained after common-place materials for effect, till the whole book dances before my eyes as a commonplace piece ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Forster[review, probably in 'The Examiner' of 'Mary Barto...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'... we have seen review in St James's Gazette, March 17 and Pall Mall March 18 — both good.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Reviews in Pall Mall Gazette and St James's Gazet...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page to page, with unwearied interest and entertainment. I...Sarah Harriet Burney [Reviews in the Quarterly Review of Bishop Heber's...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'are you in a generous humour, and will you give me "the Gayworthys" - I am so delighted with all the specimens I see in reviews.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [reviews of 'The Gayworthys' by Mrs ADT Whitney]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte's schoolfriend, Mary Taylor, to Elizabeth Gaskell, 30 July 1857:

'I am unaccountably in receipt by post of two vols containing the "Life of ...		Mary Taylor [Reviews of Elizabeth Gaskell, Life of Charlotte B...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she read them; and then she asked him if he would read the...Charlotte Bronte [reviews of Jane Eyre]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read several English reviews of my books at great length which are favourable in the extreme'.James Hogg [reviews of The Mountain Bard and The Shepherd's G...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'With the Reviews I have been much entertained -- it requires to be as far from England as I am ...George Gordon Lord Byron [Reviews]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ever read was in 1806-07.'George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[reviews]Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I was delighted to hear that the performance was so good, Sophie. I hear you have never sung better and I know what that means. It must have been a terrific show. I was ...Benjamin Britten [reviews]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thank you ? thank you - & thank you for a most marvellous show. ? I am more than grateful to you for having spend so much time & energy in learning it. I hope it wasn?t ...Benjamin Britten [reviews]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'By the way the reviews of "Leonora" in Athenaeum, Sketch, & T.P.?s Weekly have much pleased me. The swine on the Chronicle hadn?t read the book, & refrained from saying...Arnold Bennett [reviews]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'‘We were going to congratulate you on Tuesday after the play ["The Silver Box" 25 Sept 1906] but we saw you shut in by such a vast throng of eager friends tha...William Henry Hudson William Archer[review]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'3rd March 1929. At Montmartre. I promised to conduct the latest pensionnaires over Montmartre when they first arrived. Foreigners are always in a hurry to see Mont...Gerald Moore [Road sign]Print: Road sign
1900-1945'[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Brontes]. Shall I confess that I feel with Kingsley, havin...M. Jusserand [Rolls of Parliament]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'With the accomplished and honourable family of the Kembles [Elizabeth Inchbald] was long on terms of close intimacy. While her husband painted, she and John Philip Kem...Elizabeth Inchbald and husband [Roman Catholic] MassPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, April- 1 May 1814, on his relations with his half-sister: 'it is odd that I always had a foreboding -- and remember when quite a child reading th...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[Roman History]Unknown
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey [Roman history]Print: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia [Roman history]Print: Book


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