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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'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. B...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henrietta JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. B...Margaret Emily Gaskell Henrietta JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr & Mrs Clarke & Ly Coltman were all full of "Cousin Stella" & I had quite a reflected lustre from the fact that I knew & could tell them all about the authoress'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henrietta Camilla JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to me to be right . . . . As it stands, I think littl...Arnold Bennett Thomas Lloyd HumberstoneCoventryManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding A SeylerCraft of ComedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The latest volume of M.Anatole France purports, by the declaration of its title- page, to contain several profitable narratives. The story of Crainquebille's encounte...Joseph Conrad Anatole FranceCrainquebille, Putois, Riquet, et plusieurs autres...Print: Book
1850-1899[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow"....Flora Thompson Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'Reading aloud from "Cranford" one evening ... [Mary Crawford Fraser's] aunt [Elizabeth Sewell] came to a sudden full stop [on coming to episode unfit for children] ... s...Elizabeth Sewell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Mary Crawford Fraser recalled how a contemporary at the boarding-school run by her aunt, with a background in trade, was expelled for reading from unsuitable passages of...Rosie Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'we spent the evening pleasantly, in spite of ailing bodies, reading Mrs Gaskell's pretty "Cranford".'George Eliot and G.H. LewesElizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old books in my grandmother's cottage I found a curious o...Hannah Mitchell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899''A grand old book, "The Pilgrim's Progress"! But I've something here you'll like better. "Cranford". Ever heard of it Laura? No, I thought not. Well you've got a treat i...Flora Thompson Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight: 'the...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing an incident at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, ...'Rosie' Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take "Cranford" and - I was...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take "Cranford" and - I was...John Ruskin Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take "Cranford" and - I was...Margaret Ruskin Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Following this Miss Stevens showed us some pictures of Mrs...Helen Rawlings, Janet Rawlings, Muriel B. Smith & Howard R. SmithElizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 9 July 1853:

'Thank you for your letter — it was as pleasant as a quiet chat [...] as reviving as a friend's v...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 9 July 1853:

'Thank you for your letter — it was as pleasant as a quiet chat [...] as reviving as a friend's v...		Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book


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