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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'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have made me pity her, for she is very flippant and full of ...Anne Romilly Sydney MorganFrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'PS I've seen your most charming article on the French in the "Fortnightly [Review]". 'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyFrance, 1916-1917: An ImpressionPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to John Murray, 16 March 1832: 'I thank you very heartily for your great courtesy in sending me a copy of Miss Kemble's tragedy. I have read it very eag...Joanna Baillie Frances KembleFrancis the FirstPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832: 'I have read Miss Fanny Kemble's tragedy [...] It seems to me to be a very clever & indeed surprising production...Elizabeth Barrett Frances Anne KembleFrancis the First, an Historical DramaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read, please read, Francois le Champi by George Sand; it is like a dream of goodness and virtue and gentle heroism.'Robert Louis Stevenson George SandFrancois le ChampiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading "Francois le Champi" all day to my mother; a beautiful tale. These three women, Madeline, Fanchon Fadette and la petite Marie, are enough to justify all Mrs Brow...John Ruskin George SandFrancois le ChampiPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hist. of [French]. Rev. and corrects F. write Preface'Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary ShelleyFrankensteinManuscript: Unknown, Mary Shelley's MS
1850-1899'At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?I see honorable mention of myself, and Mr. Pickwick?s politics, in Fraser this month. They consider Mr. P a decided Whig.?Charles Dickens Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, or Octr, 1860 for a short poem by 'Edward Wilberforc...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'after tea went to the Yorick where I stayed chatting to Jardine smith & Carrington some time. After they left I read an article in Fraser on "The Imperial connection" by...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 1st. A. [...] is very cheerful, and is reading me a book about Russia. He is interested in the strange sects among the Russ...Alfred Tennyson Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'1831' 'Farewell to 1831 year of Whig Ministry of Shen reform... Extracted from Fraser's Magazine by Benj. Beanlands'Benjamin Beanlands [n/a]Fraser's Magazine For Town and CountryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WhewellFraser's Magazine [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorla...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I found Jessie crazy with tooth ache which lasted all day, and transported--it's the only word for it--with admiration of the fifteen chapters, it appears, she has read ...Jessie Conrad John GalsworthyFraternityManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely reading) there occurs a simple sentence which came forcib...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyFraternityManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'From one point of view I've nothing but admiration for the ending of "Shadows" ["Fraternity"].Its naturalness is appalling. Of course it can be attacked but its quality ...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyFraternityManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'A fine book dearest boy! I've read it several times. There's a breadth, an ease in it which gives one a quite new view of John Galsworthy.The humanity of it is infinit...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyFraternityPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief introduction & read an article from Nov 1914 Scribners. ...Helen Rawlings John GalsworthyFraternityPrint: Book
1900-1945Throughout our childhood, mother read aloud to us, usually at the kitchen table, but sometimes, as a treat, in the front room and sometimes, on warm summer evenings, in t...Harriet Beer Gene Stratton-PorterFrecklesPrint: Book


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