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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Maria Edgeworth[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Ann Radcliffe[Gothic novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Regina Maria Roche[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Charlotte Smith[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Laetitia Matilda Hawkins[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Jane West[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Hannah MoreCoelebs in Search of a WifePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Lady's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Australian Bush life'Sarah Good Rolf BoldrewoodRobbery Under ArmsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Authors tell strange stories about the immense size to which this fruit grows in some countries which are favourable to it. Rumphius says that they are sometimes so lar...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbrium AboinensisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Autumn departs - but still his mantles fold...' 'Introduction to the Lord of the Isles'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lord of the Isles (Canto One)Unknown
1800-1849'Autumn departs- but still his mantles fold...' [transcript of text] 'Introduction to the Lord of the Isles'Emma Bowly Walter ScottThe Lord of the IslesUnknown
1850-1899'Awake from 1-4 last night, after reading battle of Vittoria, bits of "Life of Gustave Dore" and hearing of the two girls burnt together in ball dress.'John Ruskin Blanche RooseveltLife and Reminiscences of Gustave DorePrint: Book
1850-1899'Awoke early & as it was too soon to get up read for an hour in bed. Did not go to town to-day, read & wrote in the morning'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Babs better kept him quiet in bed all day & read King Solomon's Mines to him & Dick.'Verena Pennefather Henry Rider HaggardKing Solomon's MinesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Babs home for lunch. Finished "Abbess of Vlaye" to him after lunch. Cut out and stuffed a pillow for the cot.'Verena Pennefather Stanley J. WeymanThe Abbess of VlayePrint: Book
1900-1945'Babs made a garden for himself. Read Enoch Arden to Babs before tea.'Verena Pennefather Alfred, Lord TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Baccae [sic] is far and away the best play of Euripides I have read.'Virginia Woolf EuripidesThe BacchaePrint: Book
1900-1945'Back for early dinner. 1.30. Rest on sofa[.] Read Greek with Eva to Rev 14. v 13. Henry in for tea brought Evening Standard. Bombs dropped by Zeppelin, but no serious in...Harriet Bickersteth Cook Revelations 14Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'Back I went by Mr Downing's order, and stayed there till 12 a-clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings; but he came not, so I stayed all alone reading t...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Manuscript: Sheet


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