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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'Read Livy - Claire d'Albe - Gilblas - walk in the gardens - S reads Livy'Mary Shelley Sophie Ristaud CottinClaire d'AlbePrint: Book
1700-1799'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes th...Hester Lynch Thrale George ColmanClandestine Marriage, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'We are reading Clarentine, & are surprised to find how foolish it is. I remember liking it much less on a 2d reading than at the 1st & it does not bear a 3d at all. It i...Jane Austen Sarah Harriet BurneyClarentine, A NovelPrint: Book
1900-1945'As I was keen to go abroad, and half fearful of the war ending before my dream was consummated, I was not to be tempted by Marian's opinions ... And so she proceeded to ...Vero Walter Garratt ClarionPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ...Wil John Edwards Clarion (literary pages)Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"Christopher Wordsworth Jr. wrote of W[ordsworth]: 'The week before he took his degree he passed his time in reading Clarissa Harlowe.'"William Wordsworth Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust we know not. There are many points of Richardson?s wr...Charles Robert Maturin Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the month of April 1792... Anna read Richardson's "Clarissa" for the second time - "the style is prolix, the manners obsolete, & I felt fidgeted at the repetitions no...Anna Larpent Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799'in the even I wrote my London letters... also read the News paper... as I was a writing all the even my wife read "Clarissa Harlowe" to me.'Peggy Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'My wife read part of "Clarissa Harlowe" to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.'Peggy Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[while he was doing his accounts Turner's wife read aloud to him] 'the moving Scene of the Funeral of Miss Clarissa Harlowe' - "Oh: may the Supreme Being give me Grace to...Peggy Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even my wife finished reading of "Clarissa Harlowe", which I look upon as a very well-wrote thing though it must be allowed it is too prolix. I think the author k...Peggy Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement...John Heylin Samuel RichardsonClarissaManuscript: Unknown, early MS version
1700-1799'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement...Mrs Heylin Samuel RichardsonClarissaManuscript: Unknown, early MS version
1700-1799'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement...Miss Cheyne Samuel RichardsonClarissaManuscript: Unknown, early MS version
1700-1799'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement...John Freke Samuel RichardsonClarissaManuscript: Unknown, early MS version
1700-1799'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement...Edward Young Samuel RichardsonClarissaManuscript: Unknown, early MS version
1700-1799'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement...Colley Cibber Samuel RichardsonClarissaManuscript: Unknown, early MS version
1700-1799?On our coming home & Candles being brought in he took up a volume of "Clarissa Harlowe" (w?ch we happen?d then all to be reading) but having sat about 10 minutes without...John Marsh Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Well,? at the Lower Rooms we saw this Woman, ? whose Face carries an affirmation of all this account, ? it is bold, hardened, painted, snuft, leering & impudent! Just s...Frances Burney Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book


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