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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
 
1850-1899'Lady Charlotte stopped a few days with friends near Winchester, and while there her husband read in The Times '"[...] of a wonderful discovery in the manufacture of i...Charles Schreiber article on new method of iron productionPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Lady Chatterly's Lover is the absurdest pornography I have ever read, but The Man Who Died is one of the finest pieces of literature I remember reading and the idea stri...D H LawrenceLady Chatterley's LoverPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lady Chatterly's Lover is the absurdest pornography I have ever read, but The Man Who Died is one of the finest pieces of literature I remember reading and the idea stri...D H LawrenceThe Man Who DiedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lady Cynthia Asquith's diary recorded about one January Sunday in 1917, "Stayed in bed until dinner. I read 'East Lynne' till my eyes ached."'Lady Cynthia Asquith Mrs Henry WoodEast LynnePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Lady Cynthia Asquith, daughter of the eleventh Earl [of Elcho] ... regularly reread her favourite [Dickens] stories ...'Lady Cynthia Asquith Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lady Gordon wrote "In most novels you are amused for the time with a set of Ideal People whom you never think of afterwards or whom you in the least expect to meet in co...Lady Gordon Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lady Lee's Widowhood by Captain Hamley R.A. it is not so good a book as I expected, it has been praised too much; so that I do not think so much of it, as if I had never...Albert Battiscombe Edward HamleyLady Lee's WidowhoodPrint: Book
1700-1799'Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was simultaneously complemented and embarrassed by Pope's tribute in "Epistle to Mr Gay". She sent a copy of the verses to her sister in Paris,...Mary Wortley Montagu Alexander PopeEpistle to Mr GayUnknown
1700-1799'Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people, which were put into her Vase at Batheaston Villa, near Bath, in competition for honorary prizes, being mentione...Samuel Johnson [unknown][verses deposited in Lady Miller's vase]Print: Book
1800-1849'Lady Rob: Kerr wrote - "You may be assured I read every line with the greatest interest & am more delighted with it than my humble pen can express. The excellent deline...Lady Robert Kerr Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lady Robert is delighted with P & P - and really [italics] was [end italics] so as I understand before she knew who wrote it - for, of course, she knows now.'Lady Robert Kerr Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Lady Stepney's Novel shall be returned to you in a day or two - It is very clever & amusing' [Letter to Charles Ollier]Mary Shelley Lady StepneyHeir Presumptive, ThePrint: 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'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 Francis Jeffrey[ review of 'Essays on the superstitions of the Hi...Print: Serial / periodical
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 Francis Jeffrey[ review of new edition of Ford's plays]Print: Serial / periodical
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 John FordBroken Heart, ThePrint: 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 John FordLover's Melancholy, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Lake of Constance "What beauty flashes from the brow of night, ..." Beattie's Tour'Bowly groupWilliam BeattieJournal of A Residence in Germany...in 1822, 1825Unknown
1800-1849'Lamb read ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] at around ... [June-July 1809] ... on 7 June he told C[oleridge] that "it is one of the very poorest sort of com...Charles Lamb Hannah MoreCoelebs in Search of a WifePrint: Book
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite...Allen Clarke William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book


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