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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
 
1900-1945'It was very hot and stuffy, thundery — and by dinner time I had a headache and went to bed early, but not to sleep. Turkiyyeh [a Circassian woman sent from the She...Gertrude Bell Acts of the ApostlesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruct...Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. Acts of the Apostles (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Cer...John Stuart Mill IsocratesAd DemonicumPrint: Book
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Cer...John Stuart Mill IsocratesAd NicoclemPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Livy - he has arrived at vol 3 - Page 307'.Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAd Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAd Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] Easter Monday. Maie finished the 5th vol. of Gibbon [...] In the evening read - S finishes Livy (p920 vol 3.) & 1/2 past 12 at night...Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAd Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol....Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAd Urbe Condita [probably]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric of Trajan and begins Tacitus'.Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisAd?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisAd?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 1st vol of Adele - & write - after dinner write to Fanny and go up to Diodati where I read the life Mad. Deffand'Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisAd?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisAd?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'I must tell you an act of kindness of William Lamb--he has been looking over and correcting Ada Reis for me'.William Lamb Lady Caroline LambAda ReisManuscript: Unknown, William Lamb would have read either fair copies or proofs from the printer.
1800-1849William Lamb to John Murray, 20 December 1822: 'The incongruity of, and objections to, the story of "Ada Reis" can only be got over by power of writing, beauty of sent...The Hon. William Lamb Lady Caroline LambAda ReisManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Not long ago I happened to call at the railway carter, and found the wife of the man engaged in reading George Eliots' 'Adam Bede'George EliotAdam BedePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'[On grounds of propriety] Lucy Caroline Lyttelton's grandmother ... left out one chapter of ... [Adam Bede] ... when she was reading it aloud to her grandchildren ...'George EliotAdam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899' ... as late as the 1890s, Harriet Shaw Weaver's mother was shocked when she came upon her adolescent daughter reading "Adam Bede" ... the local vicar was asked to call ...Harriet Shaw Weaver George EliotAdam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med...Vera Brittain George EliotAdam BedePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Segel, "As the Twig is Bent: Gender and Childhood Reading": "When Lucy Lyttelton's grandmother began reading aloud Adam Bede ... it was 'duly bowdlerized for ou...anon George EiiotAdam BedePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin George EliotAdam BedePrint: Book


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