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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
 
1800-1849My circumstances were perhaps well fitted to the task of self-culture - too straitened to admit of much expenditure on books, but sufficiently easy to afford me plenty of...Anne Lutton Virgil Print: Book
1800-1849My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of Miss Edgeworth's pen were fascinating, and there were...Anne Lutton Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Mrs Brooke Print: Book
1850-1899Letter 9/8/1857 (Inverness)- 'Please tell me why you don't like Mme de Genlis. And then I'll tell you, if you like, why I like her.' John Ruskin Stephane-Felicite de Genlis Print: Book
1850-1899Letter, 25/11/1860 - 'The opening of the note enclosed from Mrs Browning refers to my having spoken of Lord John's last dispatch as giving me courage to write to her abou...John Ruskin Lord John Russell Print: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter 16/8/1863 - Following a description of rural walk - "it was just like the beginning of a new novel of Sir Walter's. - Do you see what the French call him now: - (s...John Ruskin Sir Walter Scott Print: Book
1850-1899Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: "'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Low...Constance Smedley James Russell Lowell Print: Unknown
1700-1799" reading Rousseau to my Sally."Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques Rousseau Unknown
1700-1799" From one till three reading Rousseau to the joy of my Life."Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques Rousseau Unknown
1700-1799" From five till Ten read Rousseau (finished the 7th tome) to my Sally.Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques Rousseau Unknown
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Print: Book
1850-1899Letter B 23 - Postmark 15/10/1858 - "Cease reading my books for the present - there are a thousand as good - and many better. Read Aubrey de Vere's if you like - there's ...John Ruskin Aubrey Thomas de Vere Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H. 28 - 23/12/1855 - "You have Carey's Dante I suppose - else Matilda's quotation from the Psalms might be useless to you. Carey is on the whole the best - and ver...John Ruskin Dante Alighieri Print: Book
1900-194513/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy."Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"I took in Mr Holmes' humorous poems & Davidson (a very jolly little friend of mine) another light work & we sat together with Romer in the furthest corner enjoying liter...Leslie Stephen Oliver Wendell Holmes Print: Book
1850-1899"Do you know that I have just read in a book that my grandfather James Stephen invented the orders in council - which produced the American war of 1812 - wh. would have d...Leslie Stephen  Print: Book
1850-1899'Robert Macpherson came down with us to Civita Vecchia to see us off, and, I remember, read to me all the way there a story he had written, one of the stories flying abou...Robert Macpherson Robert Macpherson Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in the study that had been made for him, copying for me, ...Francis Wilson  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'. . . the cab driver reads a coloured comic paper . . .'[a cab driver] anon  Print: Newspaper
1850-1899"By an accidental combination of circumstances I only saw your article on my 'secularism' this afternoon. I have no complaints to make of it & no wish to carry on the con...Leslie Stephen Frederick Denison Maurice Print: Book


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