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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
 
1850-1899Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, c.29 April 1850: 'I have seen some extracts from "Shirley" in which you talk of women working.'Mary Taylor Charlotte BronteShirley (extracts)Unknown
1850-1899Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 13 August 1850: 'On Wednesday I began "Shirley" and continued in a curious confusion of mind till now ...'Mary Taylor Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte Nicholls to Ellen Nussey, 20 October 1854: "Arthur has just been glancing over this note -- He thinks I have written too freely ..."Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte Brontenote to Ellen NusseyManuscript: Letter
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem...William Gallacher Charlotte Bronte[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899" ... in the early 1870s, the ten-year-old Annabel Huth Jackson 'was terribly frightened by the episode of the mad woman tearing the wedding veil' in Jane Eyre, although ...Annabel Huth Jackson Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Alice] Foley continued her education by attending night school after going to work full-time in the mill when she was thirteen. She remembers choosing "Jane Eyre" as a...Alice Foley Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, "but I asked him on the wro...Michael Stapleton Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery Charlotte Bronte Print: Book
1900-1945'Am reading "Jane Eyre" and adore it.'Hilary Spalding Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'Today I finished "Wuthering Heights" and began "Villette". I must try and get a set of the Bronte books as soon as I can - they are most refreshing and not a bit old fa...Hilary Spalding Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Villette", and went fast asleep on couch.'Hilary Spalding Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: 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 Charlotte BronteProfessor, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Can you tell me about "Jane Eyre", - who wrote it? I am told I wrote the 1st vol: and I don't know how to disbelieve it myself, - though I am wholly ignorant of the auth...Harriet Martineau Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849'O! "Esmond"! That book marks its own year in one's life. I never did any justice to Thackeray before; and I cannot now read "Vanity Fair". But the pub...Harriet Martineau Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1800-1849'When I [Harriet Martineau] read ["Jane Eyre"], I was convinced that it was by some friend of my own, who had portions of my childish experience in his or her mind.'Harriet Martineau Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: 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?] Charlotte Bronte[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]': 'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [italics]Life of Miss Bronte[end italics]. Years ago, ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book


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