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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'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's wor...Thomas Carlyle Unknown UnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life": 'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morrow", in which the procrastinator gives the history o...Elizabeth Missing Sewell ?Maria ?Edgeworth'To-morrow'Print: Book
1800-1849In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to her her feeling that 'government of the thoughts' wa...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Jane TaylorThe Contributions of Q.Q.Print: Book
1800-1849'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though it did include some novels -- Miss Edgeworth's and B...Anne Isabella Milbanke Maria EdgeworthnovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Hall's book, but will read it through before I say a word about it, for I find my opinion changes so much between the first and third volume of a book'.Sydney Smith Basil HallTravels in North America 1827-8Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Hall's America? If you have, I hope you dislike it as much as I do. It is amusing but very unjust and unfair. It will make his fortune at the Admiralty. Th...Sydney Smith Basil HallTravels in North America 1827-8Print: Book
1800-1849'I do not like your Tragedy; there is little interest in it; no material fault but the absence of anything very good. I am not the less obliged to you for sending it. You...Sydney Smith T.H. ListerEpicharisUnknown
1800-1849'I quite agree about Napier's book. I did not think that any man would venture to write so true, bold and honest a book; it gave me a high idea of his understanding, and ...Sydney Smith William Francis Patrick NapierHistory of the Peninsular WarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and entertaining parts of common life, brought forward i...Sydney Smith John GaltLaurie Todd or the Settlers in the WoodsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and entertaining parts of common life, brought forward i...Sydney Smith Lady Raffles[memoir of her husband Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles...Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Moore? I come in, I see, for a little notice once or twice. I find the Peer and Poet (and I knew it only yesterday) has dedicated a stanza or two to me in ...Sydney Smith Thomas MooreLife of ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have read "Zohrab the Hostage" with the greatest pleasure. If you have not read it, pray do. I was so pleased with it that I could not help writing a letter of congra...Sydney Smith James Justinian MorierZohrab the HostagePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am always glad when a clever book has been written; not only because it pleases me, but because it is a new triumph for Brains. I have had very great pleasure in readi...Sydney Smith (ed.) Lady DacreRecollections of a ChaperonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Hamilton';s "America", it is quite excellent'.Sydney Smith Thomas HamiltonMen and Manners in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think you will like Sir James Mackintosh's Life; it is full of his own thoughts upon men, books and events, and I derived from it the greatest pleasure. He makes most ...Sydney Smith Robert James MackintoshMemoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir Ja...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading aloud Beauvilliers book of Cookery. I find as I suspected that garlic is power; not in its despotic shape but exercised with the geatest discretion'.Sydney Smith Antoine BeauvilliersL'Art de CuisinerPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very desirous to read Mrs Trollope's Paris and the Parisians; her Tremordyn Cliff I read with considerable pleasure. She must be an amorous Old Dame; all these matt...Sydney Smith Frances Milton TrollopeTremordyn CliffPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read "Astoria" with great pleasure; it is a book to put in your library, as an entertaining, well written - [italics]very[end italics] well written - account of s...Sydney Smith Washington IrvingAstoriaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Get, and read, Macaulay's Papers upon the Indian courts and Indian Education. They are admirable for their talent and their honesty. We see why he was hated in India, an...Sydney Smith Thomas Babington Macaulay[writings on Indian Courts and Education]Print: Book
1800-1849'Nickleby is very good. I stood out against Mr Dickens as long as I could, but he has conquered me'.Sydney Smith Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Serial / periodical


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