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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
 
1800-1849Mary Berry to Joanna Baillie, 24 October 1844: 'I have been reading "Mrs. Grant's Letters" with considerable amusement. She often writes very well, and [italics]thinks[e...Mary Berry Anne GrantLetters from the Mountains; being the real corresp...Print: Book
1800-1849'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a r...Charlotte Bury Anne GrantEssays on the superstitions of the Highlanders of ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I feel, dear [-], gratified by the partiality which you express for my writings. You would, more than many others, be much influenced by the subject so often alluded to,...Charlotte Bury Anne GrantLetters from the MountainsPrint: Book
1800-1849'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original production that ever this country gave birth to and another ...James Hogg Anne GrantEighteen Hundred and Thirteen: A PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'Some months since I joined with other literary folks in subscribing a petition for a pension to Mrs. G- of L-n which we thought was a tribute merited by her works as an ...Walter Scott Anne GrantMemoirs of a Highland LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The American Lady improved as we went on - but still the same faults in part recurred. - We are now in Margiana, & like it very well indeed. - We are just going to set ...Austen FamilyAnne Grant of LagganMemoirs of an American LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Elegy by Mr J. Hunter Sigh not ye winds as passing oer, The Chambers of the dead ye fly... J.H.'Bowly groupAnne Home'Elegy' OR Poems by Mrs John HunterUnknown
1700-1799'Mrs John Hunter, Wife to the famous Anatomist has made a Base to the Tune [reputed to be North American Indian]; & set these Words to it; I had no Notion She could write...Hester Lynch Thrale Anne Hunter'North American Death Song'Unknown
1900-1945'I read "North to the Orient" by Anne Lindbergh. I imagined they had flown over the top of the world! But actually it was via North Canada, Alaska, Kanchatka, and the Kur...Thomas Kitching Anne LindberghNorth to the OrientPrint: Book
1800-1849Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal. Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till 3 when we dined.Anne Lister Anne ListerJournalManuscript: Sheet, mss memoirs
1800-1849From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account of my intrigue with Anne Belcombe I read over atten...Anne Lister Anne ListerJournalManuscript: Sheet, mss her memoirs/ journal
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1850-1899		From Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte:

'"I recollect [...] [Bronte's] saying how acutely she dreaded a charge of plagiarism when, after she had...		Charlotte Brontë Anne Marsh'The Deformed'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I think Anne's 'Tales' particularly interesting ... I prefer the first, there is greater purity and far greater truth. 'The Admiral's Daughter' is deficient in both thes...Jessie Sismondi Anne Marsh CaldwellTwo Old Men's Tales: The deformed and The Admiral'...Print: Book
1900-1945'To the "Evening Standard" Anne Matheson had contributed a later and similar description of Nuremberg.'Vera Brittain Anne MathesonArticle in the "Evening Standard"Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, a...Sarah Harriet Burney Anne MathewsMemoirs of Charles Mathews, comedianPrint: Book
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced P...Princess Charlotte Anne Plumptre[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish i...Louisa, Lady Stuart Anne Racliffe[Novels]Print: Book
1700-1799' I would advise you to read Mrs R's "Italian" in your own chamber, not to lose the picturesque images with which it abounds.'Mary Wollstonecraft Anne RadcliffeItalian, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'A little before this time I had been reading that entertaining little volume, Miss Taylor's "Original Poems for Children", one of which, "The Truant Boys", had particula...Thomas Carter Anne TaylorOriginal Poems for Infant MindsPrint: Book
1800-1849'In 1809 [Anne Isabella Milbanke] wrote the Lines supposed to be spoken at the Grave of Dermody. It is one of the earliest of her compositions extant [goes on to quote 11...George Gordon Lord Byron Anne Isabella Milbanke'Lines Supposed to be Spoken at the Grave of Dermo...Manuscript: Unknown


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