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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
 
1850-1899'Fan lent me the "Cornhill", with Matt's bit of sauciness... I tell Fan (we are always as plainspoken as can be) that I hope it may do more good than harm; but that it wi...Harriet Martineau Matthew Arnold'My Countrymen' (article in The Cornhill)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Fanny & I are to go on with Modern Europe together, but hitherto have advanced only 25 Pages, something or other has always happened to delay or curtail the reading hour...Jane Austen John BiglandLetters on the Modern History and Political Aspect...Print: Book
1700-1799'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes ...Charles Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes ...Frances Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes ...Hester Lynch Thrale Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Fanny Cage - did not much like it - not to be compared to P. & P. - nothing interesting in the Characters - Language poor. - Characters natural & well supported - Improv...Fanny Cage Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Fanny Cage - did not much like it ["Mansfield Park"] - not to be compared with P. & P.'Fanny Cage Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Fanny Cage - liked it very much indeed & classed it between P & P & M.P.'Fanny Cage Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Fanny has just been reading a little of one of Jeffrey's reviews of Wordworth...'Fanny Wedgwood Francis Jeffrey[Review of Wordsworth]Print: Serial / periodical, Edinburgh Review
1800-1849'Fanny K. - not so well as either P & P or M P. - could not bear Emma herself. Mr Knightley delightful. Should like J.F. - if she knew more of her.'Fanny Knight Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Fanny Knight. - Liked it, in many parts, very much indeed, delighted with Fanny; - but not satisfied with the end - wanting more Love between her & Edmund - & could not ...Fanny Knight Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'far less shall earth now hastening to decay...' 'world before the flood' 'isle of man June 15th 31'.Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan James MontgomeryThe world before the flood; a poem in ten cantosUnknown
1850-1899'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f...Thomas Jones Farell Lee BevanPeep of DayPrint: Book
1850-1899'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f...Thomas Jones James BruceTravels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the...Print: Book
1850-1899'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f...Thomas Jones Samuel Baker[Probably] 'The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the...Print: Book
1850-1899'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f...Thomas Jones Frank Buckland Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Farewell Mephistocles--Luke Makey de la Touche Richard the 3 Valmont Machiavelli Napoleon [Prival?] the Wicked Duke of Orleans--for you are a little like them all'..Lady Caroline Lamb Choderlos de LaclosLes Liaisons DangereusesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Farewell to...' 'Fare thee well! Tis meet we part, /...' 'July 6th 1835/Julia'Julia Alaric Alexander WattsA Woman's Farewell. Adapted to an Air by MozartPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Farewell' 'Farewell! If ever fondest prayer/...' [Some differences in punctuation from Byron's text]Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronFarewell! If Ever Fondest PrayerPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Farewell' 'Nay [shy] not from the word "Farewell"! / As if twer friendships knell ...' 'Bernard Barton' [transcribes text]Mary Dugdale Bernard BartonFarewellUnknown


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