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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'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 Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Today we saw the cathedral at Chester; and, far more delightful, saw and heard a certain inimitable verger who took us round. He was full of a certain recondite, far awa...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. When ...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. When ...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'As I chose that my recent course of extravagance should die a melodious death [...] the last indulgence I gave it was the purchase of "The Lady of the Lake". How sweet, ...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen Guy Mannering? I perfectly doat upon it. There is such skill in the management of the fable, & it is so eminently original in its characters and descriptio...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle selfishness". - Was there ever a happier expression? - ...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not qu...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not qu...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottMonastery, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not qu...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottAbbot, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel perfectly reconciled to having a Freebooter for a Her...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottFortunes of Nigel, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel perfectly reconciled to having a Freebooter for a Her...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottPirate, ThePrint: Book
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 Walter ScottLife of Napoleon BuonapartePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: and Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, lured on by t...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 2 January 1915: 'I read Guy Mannering upstairs for 20 minutes'.Virginia Woolf Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, & Crotchet Castle. Both are so much better than I rem...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Walter ScottLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'I received Walter Scott's Rokeby. I gazed at it with a transport of impatience, and began reading it in bed. I am already in the first canto: - my soul has glowed with w...Charlotte Bury Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Walter ScottVision of Don Roderick , ThePrint: Book


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