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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'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture o...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture o...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow LaplaceMecanique CelestePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Miss Austen's "Emma", which amused me very much, impressing me with a high opinion of her powers of drawing and sustaining character, though not satisfying me a...William Charles Macready Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read a part of "Northanger Abbey", which I do not much like. Heavy, and too long a strain of irony on one topic.'William Charles Macready Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lay down on the sofa, reading Miss Austen's "Mansfield Park"... The novel, I think, has the prevailing fault of the pleasant authoress's books; it deals too much in desc...William Charles Macready Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished "Mansfield Park", which hurried with a very inartificial [sic] and disagreeable rapidity to its conclusion, leaving some opportunities for most interesting and ...William Charles Macready Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say that you would have rather written "Pride and Prejudice" or "Tom Jones", t...Charlotte Bronte Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Now I can understand admiration of George Sand; for though I never saw any of her works which I admired throughout (even "Consuelo", which is the best, of the best that ...Charlotte Bronte George SandConsueloPrint: Book
1800-1849'Having heard much of Miss Hamilton's celebrated novel of the "Modern Philosopher" we on Wed'y the 14th got it from Humphrey's Library w'ch Edw'd & I afterw'ds read out o...Marsh familyElizabeth HamiltonMemoirs of modern philosophersPrint: Book
1800-1849'On Wed'y the 24th I finish'd reading the new & popular novel of the "Irish Excursion", w'ch Mr Hayley had recommended to us...'John Marsh [Anon]The Irish Excursion, or I fear to tell youPrint: Book
1800-1849'... my usual headache on the first day of travelling having come on before I got to Town, I felt by that time very little inclination to unpack or dress myself, but seei...John Marsh [n/a][local newspaper]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'For some time before this I had found my eyes not so good as they had been, being now oblig'd to hold a book, when reading, farther from my eyes & finding some difficult...John Marsh [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'... April when we marched to Mansfield here I met with a man who was a member of Johannah Southcott Society and he lent me some of his books and told me many straing thi...Joseph Mayett [unknown][religious books]Print: Book
1800-1849'in the Course of this summer one day I took the Bible to read and happened on the 54th Chapt of Isaiah a chapt I had never noticed before and as I read it I had such a g...Joseph Mayett [n/a]Book of IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'I went home and told my wife and took my Bible and opened it upon the 37th Psalm I read it and found much Comfort from it and made it a matter of prayer and the Lord ena...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the d...Joseph Mayett Hannah MoreShepherd of Salisbury PlainPrint: Book, Pamphlet, chapbooks
1800-1849'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the d...Joseph Mayett Hannah MoreFarmer's firesidePrint: Book, Pamphlet, chapbook
1800-1849'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the d...Joseph Mayett Hannah MoreDiscontented pendulumPrint: Book, Pamphlet, chapbook
1800-1849'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were writ...Joseph Mayett William Cobbett[various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were writ...Joseph Mayett Thomas Wooler[various titles]Print: Book


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