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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
 
1800-1849From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were children at Paris was the arrival of a huge parcel, w...Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray Sir Henry ColeThe Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Bo...Print: Book
1800-1849From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were children at Paris was the arrival of a huge parcel, whic...Anne Isabella Thackeray Sir Henry ColeThe Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Bo...Print: 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 ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'On March 15 [1812] [...] [Anne Isabella Milbanke] dined at Lady Melbourne's [...] [William Lamb] may have been genuinely tired of the principal topic as recorded in Anna...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (cantos I and II)Print: 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 ...Percy Bysshe Shelley William Wordsworth[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking turns wit...Jane Sewell AnsonVoyagesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking turns wit...Jane Sewell LemprierTour to MoroccoPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking turns wit...Jane Sewell unknownHistory of MontezumaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruct...Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight.William Pinnock'Catechisms of History and Geography"Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruct...Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight.Sarah Trimmer'Selections [from the Bible]'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruct...Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. Old Testament (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruct...Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. Gospels (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school: 'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography [...] For religious instruct...Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. Acts of the Apostles (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her childhood reading in her family home: 'To be alone was never unpleasant to me. In the nursery my great pleasure was to sit by myself in ...Elizabeth Sewell unknown[Story]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on studies at Miss Crooke's boarding school, Newport, Isle of Wight: 'When my regular lessons for the day were over, I used to sit until bed-tim...Elizabeth Sewell unknownFrench idiomsUnknown
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the [italics]Spectator[end italics] and [italics]The Ram...Elizabeth Sewell The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the [italics]Spectator[end italics] and [italics]The Ram...Elizabeth Sewell Samuel JohnsonThe RamblerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the [italics]Spectator[end italics] and [italics]The Ram...Elizabeth Sewell MasonPlaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the [italics]Spectator[end italics] and [italics]The Ram...Elizabeth Sewell Joseph AddisonCatoPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on visits to her uncle Edwards (a barrister)'s library in his home at Binstead: 'My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know t...Elizabeth Sewell BurgerLenorePrint: Book


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