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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'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud Thalaba till Bed time.'Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday June [...] 5th. [...] Read Werther and begin Emile de Rousseau.' [also records reading latter text on 7, 8, 9 June 1821]Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: 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]...Mary Godwin Jean Jacques RousseauEmile; ou de l'education
1800-1849'in the evening talk with Shelley read Emilia Galotti'.Mary Godwin Gotthold Ephraim LessingEmilia GalottiPrint: Book
1850-1899The Bronte enthusiast Sidney Biddell to Charlotte Bronte's former schoolfriend, Ellen Nussey, 15 May 1883:

'Miss Robinson's "Emily Bronte" is prettily enou...		Sidney Biddell Agnes Mary Frances RobinsonEmily BrontePrint: Book
1900-1945After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus had been transmogrified into a more abstract sense of...Patricia Beer L.M. MontgomeryEmily of New MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'And then one day I found a book. It was a book called Emily of New Moon, about a little girl whose father died of consumption – that made a change, to start with - aft...Rosemary Sutcliff L.M. MontgomeryEmily of New MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Lytton StracheyEminent VictoriansPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger ...Thomas and Florence HardyJane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me much pleasure ... I have likewise read one of Miss Aust...Charlotte Bronte Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; both dear Mr Knightley and Mr John Knightley seem so f...Gwen Raverat Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1850-1899'read "Emma" in the evening.'George Eliot (pseud) Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Captain Austen. - liked it extremely, observing that though there might be more Wit in P & P - & an higher Morality in M P - yet altogether, on account of it's [sic] pec...Captain Frank Austen Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs F.A. - liked & admired it very much indeed, but must still prefer P & P.'[Mrs Francis] Austen Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs J. Bridges - preferred it to all the others.'[Mrs J.] Bridges Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Sharp - better than M.P. - but not so well as P. & P. - pleased with the Heroine for her Originality, delighted with Mr K - & called Mrs Elton beyond praise. - diss...[Miss] Sharp Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Cassandra - better than P. & P. - but not so well as M.P.'Cassandra Elizabeth Austen Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Fanny K. - not so well as either P & P or M P. - could not bear Emma herself. Mr Knightley delightful. Should like J.F. - if she knew more of her.'Fanny Knight Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others. Language different from the others; not so easily read.'James Austen Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book


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