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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
 
1850-1899We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".'Margaret Oliphant AthenaeumPrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'.George Eliot [pseud] variousAthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" did. The Athenaeum compares these books to Miss Aust...Elizabeth Barrett variousAthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]AthenaeumPrint: Book
1800-1849‘Thanks for Swing and the Athenaeum which is very welcome, and well worth Two-pence’.Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I liked the Athenaeum on Chartism much. Thank you for sending it. One has great pleasure in reading the Athenaeum - the spirit is so good'.Harriet Martineau unknownAthenaeum [review of Carlyle's Chartism]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Athenaeum [review of Eastwick's 'Lutfullah']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I like your "Byron" well ...'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyAthenaeum, 'The Poetry of Byron'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Mrs Robinson's journal of Oct 7 1854, reprinted in the Times June 15 1856: '..we sat and read Athenaums aloud, chatting meanwhile. There was something unusual in his man...Mrs Robinson [n/a]AthenaumPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Finished the "Athenian Letters"...'Thomas Green Philip YorkeAthenian LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'5th March 1929. Papers from mother, with an account of the opening of the new girls? Secondary school. A very fine building. Photo of mother as one of the council n...Gerald Moore Pierre BenoitAtlandidePrint: Book
1850-1899'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the second no. has no such names, - & I'll tell you what...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Atlantic MonthlyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you very much for your list of authors. You may think how we [italics] savoured [end italics] the papers on the Catacombs. Marianne & Meta always write the names o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Atlantic MonthlyPrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1850-1899'In this way he [Mr Bosanquet] has seen some of your letters, & read the Atlantic &c, & especially begged me for a letter of introduction to you'Charles Bosanquet [n/a]Atlantic MonthlyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I want you to tell me what Genl Butler really is - whether an "Our Hero" as a paper in the Atlantic called him; or an [italics] over [enditalics]-stern & violent man?'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Atlantic MonthlyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945"Just read Atlantic Ordeal, the account of Mary Cornish's eight days in the Atlantic with the little boys from the City of Benares, in the lifeboat. Gets no better on r...Vere Hodgson Elspeth HuxleyAtlantic Ordeal: The Story of Mary CornishPrint: Book
1700-1799"As late as 1782 ... [Caroline Herschel] would employ a telescope to 'sweep' the sky for comets, with her brother William seated beside her. William helped her attain th...Caroline and William HerschelJohn FlamsteedAtlas CoelestisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Atlas, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cott...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Hammond InnesAttack AlarmPrint: 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 Pietro MetastasioAttilio RegoloPrint: Unknown


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