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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
1850-1899		[Annotations]: Just above the printed words 'A Proposal' Peter Cunningham has added [semi-legible] 'as such of Night' and [legible] '4. Of Young's Night Thoughts 1743'.Peter Cunningham 'A Proposal' [for subscribers to a volume of colle...Print: Advertisement
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Annotation]: Beside the printed words 'Just Publish'd', Peter Cunningham has added '(1744)' and [? - semi-legible - 'To Night 6' followed by [legible] '& Night-Thoughts...Peter Cunningham A Collection of Fifty Old PlaysPrint: Advertisement
1850-1899[Arnold Bennett's father] 'encouraged them to read. As soon as he had any money he began to buy books, and one of the features of the house in Waterloo Road was its "Book...Arnold Bennett unknownvariousPrint: Book
1850-1899[at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.'George Eliot [pseud] Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Count of Monte CristoPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899[Aubrey De Vere writes] 'In 1854 I went [...] to Farringford, where the poet [Tennyson] then made abode with his wife and two children [...] in the afternoon we sometimes...Alfred Tennyson and Aubrey De VereCoventry PatmoreThe Angel in the HousePrint: Book
1850-1899[Aunt Bessy] 'used to read "Little Lord Fauntleroy" over and over again to the old women [in the Cambridge workhouse], because they never wanted any other book'Elizabeth Darwin Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle Lord FauntleroyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Austen and her family were] 'great novel readers and not ashamed of being so'.Jane Austen unknown[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799[bailiffs burst into her room to take her to the Marshalsea; one of them] 'who had employed himself in looking over my Papers, cried, "Ay the [italics] Irish [end italics...Laetitia PilkingtonRoman Father, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[Bennett] '. . .reread Balzac and de Maupassant and wondered whether he would be acccused of plagiarism.' Arnold Bennett Honore de Balzac Print: Book
1700-1799[Betsey Wynne]'Our reading today was of Moliere, Mr de Regis read "Le Tartufe" which is his finest piece'. [Eugenia comments the next day, 'Le vilain homme que ced Tartuf... Moliere [pseud.]Le TartuffePrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1700-1799[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper w...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Moliere [pseud.]Les Precieuses RidiculesPrint: Book
1700-1799[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper w...Eugenia Wynne Moliere [pseud.]Les Precieuses RidiculesPrint: Unknown
1700-1799[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper w...Eugenia Wynne [n/a][Gazettes / newspapers from paris]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper w...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [n/a][Gazettes / newspapers from paris]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899[between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889, concerning period following Easter 1888] 'In order to save her eyes, which now increasingly troubled ... Nollekens and his TimesPrint: Book
1850-1899[between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889] 'Horatio Brown, the well-known writer on Venetian history and art, was one of the English colony who ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Horatio BrownVenetian StudiesPrint: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 10 October and 19 November 1880] 'The evening readings of Tristram Shandy created in Lady Charlotte a feeling of disgust, and she thought ...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberLaurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1850-1899[between Journal entries for 2 January and 28 February 1887] 'Until [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] eyes were uncovered [following operation on 9 January] Maria [daught...Maria [nee Guest] William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 20 October and 1 November 1879] 'Lady Charlotte had now for the moment deserted Shakespeare of an evening for Harrison Ainsworth's South Sea ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Harrison AinsworthSouth Sea BubblePrint: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 26 January and 29 September 1881] 'When Parliament adjourned for a recess in April Charles Schreiber [M.P.] was obliged to go to Liverpool...Lady Charlotte Schreiber John KeatsEndymionPrint: Book


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