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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'I read Don Juan d'Autriche -- & looked into a good deal, .. or perhaps not a good deal, .. of Casimir D...Elizabeth Barrett Casimir DelavigneplaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's "Home" is to be found, and I send them very gladly, ...George Ticknor Catharine M SedgwickHopePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 10 January 1817, re visit to Mrs Threlkeld (very fond of C. Clarkson) at Halifax: 'I read her your last letter adding a few word...Dorothy Wordsworth Catherine Clarkson Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'In a short time after, I procured the "Life of Susan Hopley", and felt disappointed at finding it to be a work of fiction.' [However, Ashford was inspired by this work t...Mary Ann Ashford Catherine CroweSusan Hopley; or the Adventures of a Maid ServantPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I don't think one does [italics] admire [end italics] (it is far too good a word to be used on the subject) 'Susan Hopley'; it is a series of most unnatural adventures, ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Catherine CroweSusan HopleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'What novel did you choose (in default of one from me,) for your confinement reading. I am afraid you did not get hold of the Young Protector; it is too old a book to be ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Catherine CuthbertsonSanto Sebastiano: or, The Young ProtectorPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading a sweet book, "The Farthing Spinster", by Catherine Dodd. Some of the passages about gardens are beautiful. Here are some of the most lovely [...] from th...Hilary Spalding Catherine DoddFarthing Spinster, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces 1805 letter from Mary Berry (writing as Catherine Fanshawe) to Catherine Fanshawe, in response to poem written by Fanshawe as Berry, and len...Mary Berry Catherine Fanshawe"Ode, by Mary Berry."Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Dr Ferris, since I have been here, has lent me [...] at the same time Mrs Galando's "Letters", a foolish slander, as it seems, against Mrs Siddons'William Windham Catherine GalindoMrs Galadano's letter to Mrs SiddonsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late avatars? "Preferment", with an undeniable clevern...Elizabeth Barrett Catherine GorePreferment: or, My Uncle the EarlPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 July 1844: 'I heard the other day that "Agathonia" was Mrs Gore's! [...] Mr Crabbe Robinson told George [? i.e. Barrett...Henry Crabb Robinson Catherine GoreAgathoniaPrint: Book
1800-1849Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 March 1840: 'Blessed be he [sic] who lately wrote "Cecil" (though it be but a novel), for it beguiled me through a weary night, and m...Caroline Norton Catherine GoreCecilPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Mrs C[atherine]. F. G. Gore, 27 August 1850:

'The book had for me its own peculiar value as a work often heard of and long wished for: I ...		Charlotte Brontë Catherine GoreThe HamiltonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Catherine HuttonThe Welsh MountaineerPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Catherine HuttonOakwood HallPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Catherine HuttonThe Miser MarriedPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is here a Mrs Hutton of Birmingham with whom I have struck up an acquaintance because she wrote a clever amusing little book called "The Miser Married"'.Sarah Harriet Burney Catherine HuttonMiser Married, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Mrs Macauly's hist. of England - Lucretius with S. - he reads Greek Romances & Ricciardetto aloud in the evening'Mary Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the accession of James I t...Print: Book
1800-1849'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'Mary Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the accession of James I t...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. begins Hist of Engd'Percy Bysshe Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the accession of James I t...Print: Book


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