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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
 
1800-1849Anne Bronte, diary paper for 31 July 1845 'Emily is engeaged [sic] in writing the Emperor Julius's life She has read some of it and I want very much to hear the rest ......Emily Bronte Emily BronteLife of the Emperor Julius (? Gondal story)Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonLycidasPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley James ThomsonCastle of Indolence, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelle...Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was...Thomas Carter [n/a]The WreathPrint: Book
1800-1849'I, moreover, found my Sunday pursuits and amusements to be powerfully instrumental in cheering and elevating my "inner man"... That I might make the day as long as possi...Thomas Carter [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider. Rousseau's "Contr...Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques RousseauDu Contrat SocialPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'One day, in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on an MS. volume of verse in my sister Emily...Charlotte Bronte Emily BrontepoemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'Currer Bell [ie Charlotte Bronte]'s book [The Professor] found acceptance nowhere ... he tried one ...Charlotte Bronte Letter from Smith, Elder & Co., publishersManuscript: Letter
1800-1849George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Saturday, and said that he would like me to read it .....Charlotte BronteJane EyreManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Saturday, and said that he would like me to read it .....George Murray Smith Charlotte BronteJane EyreManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849W. M. Thackeray to William Smith Williams, 23 October 1847: 'I wish you had not sent me "Jane Eyre." It interested me so much that I have lost (or won if you like) a who...William Makepeace Thackeray Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 11 December 1847: 'Mr Thackeray is a keen, ruthless satirist -- I have never perused his writings but with blended feelings of...Charlotte Bronte Wililam Makepeace Thackeray Print: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 14 December 1847: 'A few days since I looked over "The Professor." I found the beginning very feeble, the whole narrative def...Charlotte Bronte Charlotte BronteThe ProfessorManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 18 December 1847: '"The Observer" has just reached me ... I always compel myself to read the Analysis [of her work] in every n...Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Bronte Print: Newspaper
1800-1849J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the cleverest that was written since Austen and Edgewor...John Gibson Lockhart Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 4 January 1848: '"Jane Eyre" has got down into Yorkshire; a copy has even penetrated into this neighbourhood: I saw an elderly...Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride & Prejudice" or "Tom Jones" than any of the Waverley ...Charlotte Bronte George Henry LewesletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride & Prejudice" or "Tom Jones" than any of the Waverley ...Charlotte Bronte Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book


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