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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
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton gift booksPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton William Shakespeare Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton Walter Scott Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton texts on religionPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton historical studiesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton modern novelsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Mrs Benson, wife of the Headmaster of Wellington College, [scandalized] his friends by letting her children read George Eliot ...'Benson familyGeorge Eliot Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'[On grounds of propriety] Lucy Caroline Lyttelton's grandmother ... left out one chapter of ... [Adam Bede] ... when she was reading it aloud to her grandchildren ...'George EliotAdam BedePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower poetry
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 'two poems, which had a marvellous effect on me'. The...Marianne Farningham poem on family BiblePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 'two poems, which had a marvellous effect on me'. The...Marianne Farningham Felicia HemansThe Better LandPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		"... [Marianne Farningham's autobiography] records her childhood disappointment, when reading the Sunday School Union's magazines, at the incessant stories of poor boys w...Marianne Farningham Sunday School Union magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		"The popular religious poet Frances Ridley Havergal claimed 'I do not think I was eight when I hit upon Cowper's lines, ending 'My father made them all!' That was what I...Frances Ridley Havergal William Cowper Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Charlotte M. Yonge, apprehensive that mothers in the 1890s were paying insufficient attention to what their daughters got up to on Sundays, regretted that children were ...Young Lady Augustus Stanley and sister The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Segel, "As the Twig is Bent: Gender and Childhood Reading": "When Lucy Lyttelton's grandmother began reading aloud Adam Bede ... it was 'duly bowdlerized for ou...anon George EiiotAdam BedePrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		"'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame school teacher, 'as to be able to make out the contents ...Joseph Gutteridge newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		"'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame school teacher, 'as to be able to make out the contents ...Joseph Gutteridge public house and shop signsManuscript: Signboard
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El...Ada Cambridge George Eliot[unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El...Ada Cambridge George Meredith[unknown]Print: Unknown


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