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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'How good of you to send me these books. I am ashamed to say that I forget whether I thanked you for the last - but I [underlined] do [end underlining] thank you. I liked...Mary Shelley Harriet MartineauForest and Game-law TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'How horrified my father was on discovering that the servants had been reading little bits to me out of "Lloyd's Weekly" [on a Sunday].'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lloyd's WeeklyPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'How I hate Thackeray's women. He makes Mrs Pen and Laura behave exactly like the women in ''Ruth'' who are so detestable, and Thackeray thinks it quite right.'Emma Darwin William Makepeace ThackerayRuthPrint: Book
1850-1899'How I hate Thackeray's women. He makes Mrs Pen and Laura behave exactly like the women in ''Ruth'' who are so detestable, and Thackeray thinks it quite right.'Emma Darwin William Makepeace Thackeray[general reference to Thackeray's novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'How kind, how simple, true and good! Beautifully welcome, in my sombre vacancy here! (Dumfries, Septr, 1868) This Letter to my Mother (dear kind Letter!) I must have br...Thomas Carlyle Jane Baillie WelshLetter dated 9 October 1825Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have made me pity her, for she is very flippant and full of ...Anne Romilly Sydney MorganFrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have made me pity her, for she is very flippant and full of ...Anne Romilly [n/a]Quarterly Review Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'How pleasing Atterbury's softer hour! How shin'd the Soul unconquer'd in the Tower!' Pope. Frances Hamilton R. Atterbury (Bishop of Rochester)The Epistolacy Correspondence. Speeches and Miscel...Print: Book
1800-1849'How pretty I think your verses they express so exactly what I felt but could not find words to speak [...]'Lady Caroline Lamb Lady Georgiana MorpethunknownManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'How soon are you going to use that contribution by my friend Miss Pauline Smith? I think that last week?s issue was an excellent one.' Arnold Bennett New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'How sorry I was to learn through the Cambrian News of poor Lieut. Oswald Green's death, also Lieut. C. Ellis.'Robert Bevan Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane Austen, or Trollope or George Meredith! For this lat...Mary Augusta Ward George Meredith Print: Book
1900-1945'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane Austen, or Trollope or George Meredith! For this lat...William Arnold George Meredith Print: Book
1800-1849'How very very clever I think Beppo--I am quite sure it is his [Byron's]--& still more that Mr. Frere never could have written any thing like it'.Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBeppoPrint: Book
1800-1849'How you surprise me--write me but one word more [--] it is not true that he [Byron] sent word to you that he was very angry "Weep daughter" was cut out of the other edit...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronLines to a Lady WeepingPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'How [italics] very [end italics] interesting the report of the Sanitary Commission is? it tells one so very much one wanted to know.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][Report of the Sanitary Commission]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Howard R. Smith then read a paper on the history of the House of Lords which was followed by considerablee discussion. Mr Binns then followed with an exhaustive paper wh...Howard R. Smith Howard R Smith[paper on the House of Lords]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Howard R. Smith then read a paper on the history of the House of Lords which was followed by considerablee discussion. Mr Binns then followed with an exhaustive paper wh...W. Binns W Binns[a paper on an unknown subject]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'However I forgave him, and read him that bit of Walt Whitman about the widowed bird, which I thank God affected him quite tolerably.'Robert Louis Stevenson Walt WhitmanOut of the Cradle Endlessly RockingPrint: Book
1900-1945'However many times [Hugh] Walpole read Scott, he never ceased to be moved, as in 1918, when he "read a little Heart of Midlothian and actually wept, at my age too, over ...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book


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