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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
 
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 26 August 1838: 'Very happy in reading American newspapers.'Harriet Martineau American newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read end of Charles Dickens' "American Readings, &c; dreadful beyond words.'John Ruskin Charles DickensAmerican NotesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?One of her acts of beneficence [Madame Delessert] is recorded in Berquin?s Ami des Enfans but even her own children cannot tell which story it is. Her daughter, Madame G...Maria Edgeworth BerquinAmi des Enfants: select stories for the instructio...Print: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Aminta with Shelley - he reads Vita del Tasso'Mary and Percy ShelleyTorquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam'Mary Shelley Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
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 Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thank you for Herder which came in the nick of time; as I had just heard the last oracle of Nathan, and was ennuying myself with Tasso's Aminta- 'Jane Baillie Welsh Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Mrs Gascoyne's [sic] book on Burmah, Kipling and Murray and wrote letters. Very steamy day. Read Mrs Cotes' "Delightful Americans" after dinner and thought it only ...Gertrude Bell Gwendolen Trench GascoigneAmong Pagodas and Fair LadiesPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		J. R. R. Adams quotes at length from William Carleton's account (in his autobiography) of first reading Amoranda, or the reformed coquette, when young, "'the first thing ...William Carleton Amoranda, or the reformed coquettePrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as to give me a copy of "Adam Bede", - and I advance th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Amos BartonPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I was pleased to see your quotation from Clough. I used it myself in an approximate form, and with doubtful attribution to C., in another article ..'Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Hugh CloughAmours de VoyagePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.'Claire Clairmont MoliereAmphitryonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John HawkesworthAmurathPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her mother's admiration for her writings: 'After my father's death, the only reading, except the Bible, which, for weeks, she would listen...Jane Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her family's encouragement of her writing: 'William [Sewell's brother] had arranged to have the "Stories from the Lord's Prayer" publish...William Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked them'.Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertManuscript: Unknown


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