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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
 
1800-1849Quoted from Mrs Maxwell Scott: 'My cousin, Baroness von Appell (grand-daughter of Sir Walter [Scott]'s brother Thomas) will be one of those most interested in these le...Eliza Scott Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 12 April 1850:

'I have [...] read one of Miss Austen's works "Emma" — read it with interest and with...		Charlotte Brontë Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancip...Freya Stark Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Betrand Russell all morning, wrote, ate apples—applied more work NCCL [National Council for Civil Liberties]. 2 o'clock met John [Rodker]. Walked to Dorking. ...Mary Franeis Butts Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1700-1799" Finished reading that Emmeline, a Trumpery novel in four volumes. If I can answer for myself I will never again undertake such a tiresome nonsensical piece of business....Lady Eleanor Butler Charlotte SmithEmmelinePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "very defective" if not "positively bad" (Memoirs, p. 29...Elizabeth Carter Charlotte SmithEmmelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'Return to Este. read Mrs C. Smiths novel of Emmeline'Mary Shelley Charlotte SmithEmmeline, or the Orphan of the CastlePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews'Mary Shelley Charlotte SmithEmmeline, or the Orphan of the CastlePrint: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to James Simpson, 22 October 1819: 'I have been much interested in the perusal of a work sent me some time since by Mr. Murray, the memoirs of the late Mrs...Felicia Hemans Mary BruntonEmmeline: With Some Other PiecesPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Margery Perham, 24 August 1955: 'Did you ever come across [Charles] Temple, who was in the Nigerian Civil Service [...] He read Empire and Commerce af...Charles Temple Leonard WoolfEmpire and Commerce in AfricaPrint: Book
1900-19457 January 1920: 'Reading Empire & Commerce to my genuine satisfaction, with an impartial delight in the closeness, passion & logic of it; indeed its a good thing now & th...Virginia Woolf Leonard WoolfEmpire and Commerce in Africa. A Study in Economic...Unknown
1800-1849'read Political Justice & the empire of the Nairs'.Mary Godwin James Henry LawrenceEmpire of the Nairs; or, The Rights of Women, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read a very searching book called Meads Almost Christian. Did not dare read it til I had sought the lord, that he would not suffer Satan to apply what was not my portion...Arabella Davies Matthew MeadEn Oligos Christianos: The Almost Christian Discov...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 3 August 1797: 'I think you would derive more good from Epictetus than from studying yourself. there is a very proud indep...Robert Southey EpictetusEncheiridionPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 15 August 1797: 'I am fond of great part of the Stoical system, & there are few characters that I contemplate with more reverence than the sla...Robert Southey EpictetusEncheiridionPrint: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and fi...George Eliot EpictetusEnchiridionPrint: Book
1800-1849I have been principally engaged this day studying at an encyclopaedia by Nicholson, six octavo [volumes], a book sent by George Clark, bookseller, Aberdeen. Invoiced at s...Adam Mackie NicholsonEncyclopaediaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. From 7 to 8 drew part of a landscape, wrote my diary. 8 to 9. Read a little in my Encyclopedia ... 2 to 5 at...Joseph Hunter [n/a]EncyclopaediaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'Mary Shelley Henry ReveleyEncyclopaediaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poetry, the Bible, and checked out the facts of life in...Elizabeth Bowen [n/a]EncyclopaediaPrint: Book


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