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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'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English Papers.'John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'There was a little rain before I got back to the Gaol, then I had dinner & read the Pickwick Papers till about nine o'clock'John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensPickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde Charles DickensComplete WorksPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Bleak House" in evening'John Ruskin Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read end of Charles Dickens' "American Readings, &c; dreadful beyond words.'John Ruskin Charles DickensAmerican NotesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Take Mr Lillyvick's "I don't think nothink at all of that langwidge" as an example of people's having "a right to their opinion".'John Ruskin Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-1899'read a Dickens ghost story (the old nurse's) and so early to bed.'John Ruskin Charles Dickens[ghost story]Print: Book
1850-1899'A horribly faint despairing evening, giving up the ghost of myself in bed, and complicated by reading the horrible death of Mrs Skewton in Dickens' abominable "Dombey".'John Ruskin Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899'His peers were surprised to hear him speak disparagingly of Dickens, the most popular novelist of the day. While Wilde admired the author's humour and his gift for caric...Oscar Wilde Charles DickensnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensThe Pickwick Papers Print: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-189918 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, with great delight, Thackeray's Esmond. Since I left ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1850-189916 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourse...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensBarnaby RudgePrint: Book
1850-189916 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourse...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have been extremely interested & amused, I think there is more power in the story, & perhaps more vigor in the characters than in any of the others, rather an increas...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I have however, read Edwin Drood, and finished the hateful Cousin Pons.'James Lees-Milne Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have also read — for the first time — Hard Times.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DickensHard TimesPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:

'Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation [in year following the death...		Charlotte Brontë Charles DickensDavid Copperfield (instalments)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 11 March 1851:

'How we work! and lift, and carry, and knock boxes open as if we were carpenters by trade; and...		Mary Taylor Charles DickensDavid Copperfield (instalments)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 11 March 1852:

'Is the first number of "Bleak House" generally admired? I liked the Chancery part, but when it passes int...		Charlotte Brontë Charles DickensBleak House (opening instalment)Print: Serial / periodical


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