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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'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through s...Thomas A. Jackson Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some old volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in ...Thomas A. Jackson Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected and bound into four volumes
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into volumes
1800-1849?I regret to see one or two errors in the first Volume, though I have the consolation of believing that none but practised eyes will observe them. I am glad you like The ...Charles Dickens Charles DickensThe Black VeilPrint: Book
1900-1945[I read] 'Good books - Dickens, and Scott, and all that, but I don't believe I've opened a book since I got married, and that's nearly 30 years now.'Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Modern writers may not be up to the standard of the old writers, Dickens, Thackeray and Scott, but they're snappy-they're quick reading." (Man 45, borrowing Death in D...Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'My pal was a typical Cockney recidivist who sold fruit on a coster's barrow between convictions and went crook when sales dwindled to vanishing point... I was attracted ...anon Charles Dickens[works]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Saturday 31st July. ?Nicholas Nickleby? - (Charles Dickens)'. Gerald Moore Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Charles DickensSketches by BozPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am not ashamed to confess that during those weeks of imprisonment I too wept both by day and by night; not loudly or clamorously, but silently and with an intensity of...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison libra...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Of Dickens, dear friend, I know nothing. About a year ago, from idle curiosity, I picked up The Old Curiosity Shop, & of all the rotten vulgar un-literary writing. . .!...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: 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
1800-1849'You have been so used to these sort of impertinences, that I believe you will exuse me for saying how very much I am pleased with the first number of your new work. Peck...Sydney Smith Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about him, except playfully, in print. I got fairly stuck i...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about him, except playfully, in print. I got fairly stuck i...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubPrint: Book
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1850-1899		John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria E...John Wilson Croker Charles DickensnovelsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I read aloud several pages of Martin Chuzzlewit & rather flattered myself I gave expression to the author's nicest sentiments. I was extremely pleased with myself & un...John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a little of Dombey & Son which I had lent me last evening by Mr Reed.'John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book


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