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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'Our bride & bridegroom write as if they were very happy reading law, novels, driving fishing & boating'Florence (nee Gaskell) and Charles Crompton [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[she thinks her own writing] was almost always imitation of what I had read. I realised the immense difference between Charlotte's work and my own. Charlotte [d'Erlanger...Antonia White Charlotte d'Erlanger[unknown]Unknown
1500-1599'then I caused one to Read vnto me'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'All evening that I have been reading Lord Mahon aloud I have been thinking how I could rush home via Strasbourg & Paris to see her [Julia, her daughter, who was unwell] ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, Lord Mahon[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I know I shall never be wise enough in a tete a tete with a girl who does not read poetry & novels but Adam Smith, Niall etc. & "has no sense of humour but takes everyth...Miss Thompson Adam Smith[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'They got dingy novels from the Caen Circg Library, & had no other books, I fancy. No wonder they "hate living abroad".''the Heald girls' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'you can write: They really are very admirable Things and the Morality is as pure & useful as the literary merit is conspicuous: I am not sure that I have read all you ha...George Crabbe Mary Leadbeter[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr Boswell the younger. Malone's papers.'George Crabbe Edmund Malone[unknown]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'After my praier and readinge I went into the feedles with Mistress Thornbrow ... and, after she was gone, I went to priuat praier and readinge, and so to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I went to Mr Egertons sermon and so, within litle time, I went to priuat readinge and praier, and settinge downe some notes I had Colected'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected ...George Crabbe Reynolds[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'and after reed a while, and so went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White Thomas Carlyle[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Her [Laura Riding's] talent I cannot judge, having seen too little. Much of what I have seen seems a nervous and complacent exhibitionism; her criticism shrewd but patro...Antonia White Laura Riding[unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'after, I walked and was veseted by my Cousine Cookes wiffe, and, after they were gone, I went to readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After prairs, I reed and dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I reed, and went to diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I was readie, and had praied and reed, I walked'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have been so heavy and tired all the time that I can only ma...Antonia White Emily Coleman[unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and in an American magazine. That is the idea of a person...Antonia White George Eliot[unknown]Print: Book


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