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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
 
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1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Ann Radcliffe[Gothic novels]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A...Susan Sibbald Ann Radcliffe Print: Book
1800-1849'And besides she [Mrs Cliffe] wd. lend me the first two vols of the mysteries of Udolpho before she had finished them herself ? a kind of generosity which quite dazzled m...Elizabeth Barrett Ann RadcliffeMysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1800-1849Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho...Elizabeth Barrett Ann RadcliffeMysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1700-1799"Attacking W[ordsworth]'s 'one-sidedness' in 1840, De Quincey records: 'One of Mrs Radcliffe's romances, viz. 'The Italian,' he had, by some strange accident, read, - rea...William Wordsworth Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book
1700-1799Finished the second volume of Mrs Radcliffe's 'Italian'. She is the best writer in her way of anybody I [have?] heard of. There is one scene in this volume which cannot b...Joseph Hunter Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book
1700-1799We got the last volume of the Italian, I think it does not equal the former productionJoseph Hunter Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Ann Radcliffe[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		??in Mrs Radcliff?s romances. She was ? an extraordinary female, and her style of writing ? must be allowed to form an era in English romances. Her ignorance was nearly e...Charles Maturin Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1700-1799Frances Burney noted as having been 'an early reader' of Ann Radcliffe, "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794).Frances Burney Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the latter ...'Frances Burney Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the latter ...'Frances Burney Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelists "of considerable genius, as well as strict morals"...Elizabeth Carter Ann RadcliffeA Sicilian Romance [and other novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte...John Marsh Ann RadcliffeA Sicilian RomancePrint: Book
1700-1799'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (the 2 first of w'ch I had read before we left Chiche...John Marsh Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she read the Italian'.Clara Mary Jane (Claire) Clairmont Ann RadcliffeItalian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the Italian & talk all day'.Mary Godwin Ann RadcliffeItalian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents...Print: Book
1700-1799'I took Radcliffe's "Tour" to the Library; I was not so much entertained with it, as I expected tho her descriptions are very fine.'Joseph Hunter Ann RadcliffeA Journey Made in the Summer of 1794Print: Book
1700-1799'Brought Mrs Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho"; I wish I had not read it before, for upon a second reading it loses half its intrest'Joseph Hunter Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read in the evening the "Mysteries of Udolpho" which Lucy sent me'.Harriet Wynne Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book


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