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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
1900-1945		'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwo...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Jack WrightPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Philip Morrell, 3 February 1938: 'I'm delighted with -- first: your liking Jacobs Room [...] second, that you should actually have read, still more m...Philip Morrell Virginia WoolfJacob's RoomPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was idly looking at [italics] Jacob's Room [end italics] tonight. It exasperated yet charmed me. Here was an attempt to relate day and night. She [Virginia Woolf] lays...Antonia White Virginia WoolfJacob's RoomPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jacopo SannazaroJacobi Sannazarii, patricii neapolitani, operaPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is a new work lately come to my hand "The Jacobite Minstrelsy of Scotland" which is the most bare-faced plagiarism that ever was attempted. It is by a Griffin & Co...James Hogg Jacobite Minstrelsy, with notes Illustrative of th...Print: Book
1800-1849'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped yesterday evening into a Bookseller's shop with a s...William Wordsworth Samuel RogersJacquelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and telling you so. The last Canto of it is much the bes...James Hogg Samuel RogersJacquelinePrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the pass...Samuel RogersJacquelinePrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and particularly admires the first canto. I mentioned the pass...Samuel RogersJacquelinePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for language-co...Elizabeth Barrett George SandJacquesPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr.,11 October 1879: "I sent Alice the other day, unread, a novel (Jacques Vingtras by Jules Valles, the Communist) because Turgenieff has high...Henry James Jules VallesJacques VingtrasPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph SchellingJahrbucher der Medicin als WissenschaftPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Karl Christian WolfartJahrbucher Fur den Lebens-Magnetismus oder NeuesPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding R. GreeneJames IV of ScotlandPrint: Book
1850-1899"Besides wh. I have been looking at Hale's book 'Lowell & his friends'; wh. is not, I think, very much of a book but which told some things of interest to me."Leslie Stephen E. E. HaleJames Russell Lowell and his friendsPrint: Book
1850-1899'One winter evening I was sitting over the fire engrossed in "Jane Eyre"...'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ...Philip Inman Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945[Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact....Alice Foley Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899 'Both ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] were reading voraciously at that time [1854-57]. Their father, by reading "Jane Eyre" aloud to them (with omissions), had give...Thomas Thompson Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book


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