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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"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga...H. M. Swanwick Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Unknown
1850-1899?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, travels, even "The lives of the Stoics". There was no...Thomas Catling Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Bleak House" in evening'John Ruskin Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'I started to read "Bleak House" by Dickens when I was at the base and I should like to get on with it. You might get a small 1/- edition and send it on it will you as I ...Bernard Wilfrid Long Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 11 March 1852:

'Is the first number of "Bleak House" generally admired? I liked the Chancery part, but when it passes int...		Charlotte Brontë Charles DickensBleak House (opening instalment)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham    October 1st 1930
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
[...]
7. ...		Howard Smith Mary WebbBlessed are the MeekPrint: BookUnknown
1700-1799'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept...Elizabeth Hamilton William HamiltonBlind Harry's WallacePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922: 'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Party], and don't mean to. I've read Bliss; and it w...Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldBlissPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 22 August 1922: ''Boen [Hawkesford] came to tea on Sunday [...] She is changing; reading Bliss under [Edward] Shanks' orders'.Boen Hawkesford Katherine MansfieldBlissPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneBlithedale RomancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 17. IV 40. F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. As an introduction to our...		Francis E. Pollard T. ThompsonBlitzkriegPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The old reason [for not replying to letters] remains, also the old remedy. A good shillingsworth of fine fiction now. [...] A copy of the July “BLUE” enfolding some rath...Edmund Blunden BluePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutled...Jane Baillie Welsh Unknown Blue BeardPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I have just come from seeing Dr. Tom. More medicines! We had a very long talk and when we came out to the waiting room there was an old patient of his—Sister someb...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a]Blue Book [Parliamentary Papers]Print: Book
1800-1849?My dear Sir, I inclose the Blue Wonder and the Nights at Sea. I think if you read the last, you may save yourself the trouble of reading the first. It seems to me, in t...Charles Dickens ZschokkeBlue WonderPrint: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'When I got back Polly had gone to bed so I sat & read for an hour & then followed her up stairs. The book I was reading or skimming was called "Blueskin" or the adventur...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan WildPrint: Book
1850-1899'Commenced reading some awful rubbish there is in "Blueskin", a catch-penny thieves book which glorifies "Jack Sheppard" & contains most wonderful & thrilling episodes of...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan WildPrint: Book
1850-1899'Stayed at home nursing my cough this evening. Read "Jack Sheppard" or rather "Blueskin", smoked some strong tobacco & went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan WildPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Duke and Duchess [of Argyll] spent some days at Farringford [...] My father [...] read aloud his "Boadicea," which he had now quite finished.'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonBoadiceaManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: '& now to literary subjects. Glover has written the two Tragedies of Boadicea & Medea. in the f...Robert Southey Richard GloverBoadiciaPrint: Book


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