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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
 
1900-1945'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen Charles Dickens[Works]Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault. Like seeing something emerge; without containing m...Virginia Woolf Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 13 April 1939: 'I read about 100 pages of Dickens yesterday, & see something vague about the drama & fiction: how the emphasis, the caricature of these innumerab...Virginia Woolf Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like Mr Hensleigh Wedgwood; however he read 'Little-Dorr...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's book spun me to distraction last night. So good & sugge...Virginia Woolf Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Book
1850-1899'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like Mr Hensleigh Wedgwood; however he read 'Little-Dorr...Mr Seymour Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The weather is damnable, especially when one has neither car nor taxi. I read ¼ of "Nicholas Nickleby" yesterday because I had no brain left. It wasn’t so bad in its c...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-1899'In last week's No of All the Year Round is a repudiation (by Mr Dickens,) of having intended Leigh Hunt by Harrold Skimpole'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles DickensAll the Year Round [article]Print: Serial / periodical
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1850-1899		Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850: 'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] One drawback is not being able to get new books till...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCharles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 27 August 1906: 'I am camping out in a tent in the wilderness. I told you I believe I was coming for a month as A[ssistant]G[over...Leonard Woolf Charles Dickens Print: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that p...Mr Glasser Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anything else of D[ickens]. known to me. Very fine writi...Edward Morgan Forster Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1850-1899'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them...Edward Housman Charles DickensPickwick Papers, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother did her conscientious best to remedy the deficiencies of our literary education by reading Dickens aloud to us on Sunday afternoons. We ploughed through "Davi...Vera Brittain Charles DickensDavid Copperfield Print: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott...Wilfred Owen Charles Dickens Print: Book
1850-1899Read for the fist time June 1865. Macaulay took this volume more than once on our Easter trips.George Otto Trevelyan Charles DickensPickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a bookish child - I came upon Stevenson's "Treasure Isl...Charles Causley Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the Yorick & read the fifth number ... I read the Austra...John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the Yorick & read the fifth number ... I read the Austra...John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical


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