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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
 
1800-1849Emily Bronte, diary paper for 26 June 1837: 'Monday evening June 26 1837 A bit past 4 o'clock Charolotte [sic] working in Aunts room Branwell reading "Eugene Aram" to...Branwell Bronte Edward Bulwer-LyttonEugene AramPrint: Book
1800-1849' I was much gratified by your giving me Eugene Aram to do - & then just as I was setting to it "tooth and nail" - some events in the family of a friend of mine forced me...Mary Shelley Edward BulwerEugene AramPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Letter to Aunt dated 3 February 1832] I do not think any books so bad to read as a newspaper. [...]If you ever read novels, do send for Eugene Aram. Miss Hobart and I h...Anne Lister Edward Bulwer-LyttonEugene Aram. A Tale by the Author of 'Pelham'Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 January 1874, regarding first half of "tale" (Eugene Pickering) being sent in separate cover: "I have been reading it to my brother...Henry James Henry JamesEugene PickeringManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Let us talk of Eugenie and Mathilde. It saddened but did not make me cry. I foresaw it would end like a Turk, nay I am not sure I did not peep, for I cannot bear to be gr...Sarah Harriet Burney Marie-Emilie, Comtesse de Flahaut AdelaideEugenie et MathildePrint: Book
1800-1849'I wanted to have sent you a translation of the epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's...'Sarah Harriet Burney Adelaide Filleul, Countess de FlahautEugenie et MathildePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were...Mary Russell Mitford Henri BalzacEugenie GrandetPrint: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Honore de BalzacEugenie GrandetPrint: Book
1850-1899'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet.'Alfred Tennyson Honore de BalzacEugenie GrandetPrint: Book
1850-1899Harriet Martineau to Mrs F. G. Shaw, 17 July 1874: 'I wish to send you my thanks [...] for sending me what I so much wished to see as Mr. Curtis's "Eulogy" on his friend ...Harriet Martineau CurtisEulogy on Charles SumnerUnknown
1800-1849Finished the Choephori, & began the Eumenides. Read more than 500 lines of Greek, & was more tired by them than by the 800 the other day, because I met with more difficu...Elizabeth Barrett AeschylusEumenidesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.George Eliot (pseud) AeschlyusEumenidesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not read Miss Edgeworth's novel nor have I much opinion of her powers of execution saving and excepting Irish characters. Everything else I have read of hers I th...Sydney Smith Maria EdgeworthEunicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Eunuchus of Terence - walk - S reads Gibbon'Mary Shelley TerenceEunuchusPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading your Euphorion, and I find it such a prodigious young performance ... that dedication...Henry James Vernon LeeEuphorionPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 3 September 1905: 'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 things in it wh. I ever want to read again, the Cat [by ...Leonard Woolf Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et alEuphrosneUnknown
1800-1849In the evening, read in the European magazine for last month, an additional memoir of the life of Napoleon...Madame de Stael rather too tender to Napoleon. One day to get...Anne Lister European MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]European MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Brought [...] the European Magazine for April 1798; it contains an essay on provincial Half-pennies by Joseph M[orer], author of Turkish Tales ... to be continued in the...Joseph Hunter [n/a]European MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pres...Emily Tennyson LeckyEuropean MoralsPrint: Book


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