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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	'Read for an hour or so & then turned into bed'	John Buckley Castieau	Charles Dickens	Dombey and Son	Print: Book
	1800-1849 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 Dickens	short fictions	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'You may be interested to hear that the Miss Jaffrays are reading: having only eyes and not a 'pair of patent double magnifying microscopes' (or whatever it was that dear...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Charles Dickens	Pickwick Papers Chapter 34	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837: 'I agree with you in thinking Pickwick admirable -- but I have not read every number [...] what is striking ...	Elizabeth Barrett	Charles Dickens	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles Dickens. Our manager, who was a reading man, was su...	Benjamin Brierley	Charles Dickens	Pickwick Papers	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 6 February 1843: 'Do you know that the royal Boz lives close to us -- three doors from Mr Kenyon in Harley Place? The new numbers...	Elizabeth Barrett	Charles Dickens	Martin Chuzzlewit	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 December 1843: 'The Christmas Carol strikes me much as it does you. I dont like the machinery -- which is entangled wit...	Elizabeth Barrett	Charles Dickens	A Christmas Carol	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think I have behaved most abominably in never taking any notice of your great kindness in sending me David Copperfield, and your note. Oh, dear! I have been so whirled...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	I' wonder if you ever read Dickens?s [italics] Christmas Books [end italics] ? I don?t know that I would recommend you to read them, because they are too much perhaps. I ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Charles Dickens	Christmas Stories (2, unnamed)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 29 December 1844: 'I have read the "Chimes." I don't like it [...] Mr Dickens wants the earnest good-faith in narration wh...	Mary Russell Mitford	Charles Dickens	The Chimes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844: 'The "Chimes" touched me very much! I thought it & still think it, one of the most beautiful of [Dickens's...	Elizabeth Barrett	Charles Dickens	The Chimes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 February 1936: 'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost complete satisfaction. I'd forgotten how magnificent it ...	Virginia Woolf	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laug...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Charles Dickens	Sketches by 'Boz'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laug...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Charles Dickens	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, a...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Charles Dickens	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her companion], who [...] is not allowed to plant flowers,...	Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies	Charles Dickens	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I breakfasted luxuriously in my tent off porridge, fried ham and tea and afterwards read "Pickwick Papers", pausing now and then to anoint myself with face cream.'	Frank Smythe	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I sat up late reading of Mr. Jingle's artifices, until at last I began to speculate drowsily as to that gentleman's proficiency on ski. It seemed that he was arguing fie...	Frank Smythe	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday ...	Frank Smythe	Charles Dickens	Martin Chuzzlewit	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 25 February 1936: 'I've had headaches. Vanquish them by lying still & binding books & reading D. Copperfield.'	Virginia Woolf	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book

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