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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song...Samuel Bamford anonFair RosamondPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 4 October 1810: 'I have just received a letter from [John] Galt with a Candiot poem which ... appears to be damned nonsense ... Galt also writ...George Gordon Lord Byron John GaltFair Shepherdess, TheManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Shelley reads the Fairy Queen aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserFairie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel in "The Daisy Chain". Great interest was expressed by...Charlotte Yonge and her motherMrs MozleyFairy Bower, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Fairy Favours' [transcript of poem] 'Mrs Hemans'.Mary Groom Felicia Dorothea HemansFairy FavoursUnknown
1850-1899Letter H53, January 1857 "But I think if you read Anderson carefully, you will feel how pointed, neat and concise he is in comparison. How unexpected also are most of hi...John Ruskin Hans Christian AndersenFairy legends and TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am obliged to you for the books you were good enough to send me - Mr Crokers Volume was quite to my purpose' [letter to John Murray]Mary Shelley Thomas Crofton CrokerFairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Irela...Print: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 26 March 1826: 'I enclose a letter for your funny namesake and kinsman, whose work entertains me very much.'Walter Scott T. Crofton CrokerFairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Irela...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'It is 11 o'clock. William has been reading the Fairy Queen - he has laid aside his Book and Mary has set about p...William Wordsworth Edmund SpenserFairy Queen, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Sometimes he [Tennyson] read Grimm's Fairy Stories or repeated ballads to us.'Alfred Tennyson GrimmFairy StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's...Florence Barclay Hans Christian AndersenFairy TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due...Lucy Maud Montgomery Hans Christian AndersenFairy TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Whenever she felt morose or lonely she looked into books, and, having an insatiable curiosity, by the time she was three she had taught herself to read. Hans Christian A...Edith Sitwell Hans Christian AndersenFairy TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'From a tattered old volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales passed around among us, we learned to read, even I, at long last, discovering suddenly what the mystery was all about. ...Rosemary Sutcliff GrimmFairy TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls w...girls at the Passmore Edwards SettlementHans Christian AndersenFairytalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Its really good of you to have sent "Faith". Your magic never grows less; each of your prefaces is a gem and my enthusiasm is roused always to the highest pitch by your ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamFaithPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Peter Augustine BainesFaith, Hope, and CharityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads the first act of the faithful Shepherdess aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John FletcherFaithfull Shepheardesse, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shepherdess aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley John FletcherFaithfull Shepheardesse, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscenc...Allan Goadby Thomas HoodFaithless Nelly Gray: A Pathetic BalladPrint: Book


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