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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'Finished the "Italian"...'Thomas Green Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Mrs. Radcliffe's "Tour to the Lakes". Much might be expected from this Lady's well known powers of description, exerted on so congenial a theme...'Thomas Green Ann RadcliffeA journey made in the summer of 1794Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Ann RadcliffeMysteries of Udolpho, The
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841: 'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end italics] read "Gaston de Blondeville". perhaps y...Elizabeth Barrett Ann RadcliffeGaston de BlondevillePrint: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1700-1799'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, by our modern feelings. The best test of their worth...Edmund Burke Ann RadcliffenovelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, by our modern feelings. The best test of their worth...Charles James Fox Ann RadcliffenovelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, by our modern feelings. The best test of their worth...Richard Brinsley Sheridan Ann RadcliffenovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Owen began the 'Mysteries of Udolpho'... but Mrs Owen thought it would take her up so much that...she gave her a shilling to put off reading it till she went home, ...Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Owen began the 'Mysteries of Udolpho'... but Mrs Owen thought it would take her up so much that...she gave her a shilling to put off reading it till she went home, ...Ann RadcliffeThe Romance of the ForestPrint: Book
1900-1945'My life is serious enough without worrying over things like that, so I don't read the papers-only read d'Alroy and Ann Temple. Anyhow-if there's a war I shall be in it, ...Ann Temple[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797: 'But Miss Christall. have you seen her Poems? — a fine, artless sensible girl, now Cottle that word sensible must not be c...Robert Southey Ann Batten CristallPoetical SketchesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac...Grace Macaulay Ann Fraser TytlerLeila: or, The IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Madame de Polignac gave me in 1913 a little yellow volume of poems entitled "Les Vivants et les Morts", and at her house I met next year the divinely, the almost frighte...Ronald Storrs Anna de NoaillesLes Vivants et les MortsPrint: Book
1800-1849'My dear Anna - I am very much obliged to you for sending your M.S. [a story by Anna Austen that remained unfinished and has never been published] It has entertained me e...Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'We have just finished the 1st of the 3 Books I had the pleasure of receiving yesterday; I read it aloud - & we are all very much amused, & like the work quite as well as...Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Now we have finished the 2d book - or rather the 5th - I do think you had better omit Lady Helena's postscript; - to those who are acquainted with P. & P it will seem an...Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'We are reading the last book. - They must be two days going from Dawlish to Bath; They are nearly 100 miles apart'.Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'My dear Anna, I hope you do not depend on having your book back again immediately. I keep it that your G:Mama may hear it - for it has not been possible yet to have any...Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Thursday. We finished it last night, after our return from drinking tea at the Great House. - The last Chapter does not please us quite so well, we do not thoroughly lik...Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet


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