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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'[Meta] has a little orphan boy to teach French to, reads with Elliot every night, etc: etc: and has always more books she [is] wanting to read than she can get through, ...Margaret Emily Gaskell [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'No! I have not read nothing! - not even a review of Idylls of the King - only heard Mrs Norton's account of Tennyson's reading it'.Alfred, Lord Tennyson [unknown][review of his own 'Idylls of the King']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Do you know by whom 'Melle Mori' is written?' [Gaskell asks George Smith the same question the same day - p.605]Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown]Melle MoriPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now I had a vol: of poems sent me the other day, full of sonnets to Dickens, Carlyle &c &c - [italics] such [end italics] bad ones; & the parcel contains this book sent ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][anthology of laudatory sonnets]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read them an account of the Ammergau Play, out of the London Guardian that Mr Maltby had lent me; & I think they will both go to one of the Septr Representations'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown]London GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'and, when he was gome, I went to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after supper I went againe to priuat praier and reading, and so to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and when I Came home I went to priuat readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I busied myself in my Chamber and then went to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I had praied, reed, wrought, and dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed, and walked to the Comune Garden'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praiers I reed, and wrett to Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Our bride & bridegroom write as if they were very happy reading law, novels, driving fishing & boating'Florence (nee Gaskell) and Charles Crompton [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[she thanks the Nortons for a photograph of Lincoln and] 'the delicious book on the portraits of Dante which it is a pleasure even to open, - it, - & the faces themselve...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][book on portraits of Dante]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I caused one to Read vnto me'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[italics] Whose [end italics] history of the F. Revolution are you reading?'Marianne Gaskell [unknown][a history of the French Revolution]Print: Book
1850-1899'Miss Bronte in one of her letters to you (Mama [italics] thinks [end italics] written in the year 1835,) gives you some advice as to what books to read. Mama wants to kn...Charlotte Bronte [unknown]['standard works'; not novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner Meta & Flossy did their German; & I read French'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][French]Print: Book
1850-1899'here is a letter for you, which I opened [italics] verily [end italics] by mistake at first. One came for Florence at the same time which I snatched up and I could not b...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][letter to Marianne Gaskell]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'They got dingy novels from the Caen Circg Library, & had no other books, I fancy. No wonder they "hate living abroad".''the Heald girls' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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