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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
 
1850-1899In a notebook entry for 12 July 1896, Mattison expresses regret over the death of oscialist activist Caroline Martyn, mentioning that he has read of her illness in the La...Alf Mattison Keir HardieLabour LeaderPrint: Broadsheet, Newspaper
1800-1849'On 2 May 1812 M[ary] W[ordsworth] wrote to her husband from Hindwell: "I have read the 'Ladies calling' - one of thy books - which pleased me much ... " Mary Wordsworth Richard AllestreeLadies Calling, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Henry Tippett] read us a great mixture of things, from history (in which he was steeped) and historical romances such as Ford Madox Ford's "Lady with Bright Eyes" [s...Michael Tippett Ford Madox FordLadies Whose Bright EyesPrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took...George Moore Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's SecretPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a nove...Joseph Stamper Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's SecretPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a nove...Polly Stamper Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's SecretPrint: Book
1850-1899'Strangely, instead of Plato, took up "Lady Audley's Secret" this morning.'John Ruskin Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's SecretPrint: Book
1800-1849'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can appl...George Crabbe George CrabbeLady BarbaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, The Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'Charles Lamb Mary Anne LambLady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fearsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad...Leslie Paul David Herbert LawrenceLady Chatterley's LoverPrint: Book
1900-1945'When, years later, I first read "Lady Chatterley's Lover", I did not feel that I was being liberated into a new frankness of manhood: I felt that I was returning to baby...Norman Nicholson D.H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's LoverPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lady Chatterly's Lover is the absurdest pornography I have ever read, but The Man Who Died is one of the finest pieces of literature I remember reading and the idea stri...D H LawrenceLady Chatterley's LoverPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the way up I read Lady Chatterley's Lover, in the new full continental edition a friend got from Germany. I now retract what I said that DHL's letters are more import...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell David Herbert LawrenceLady Chatterley's LoverPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am at present reading a book whose scene is set in Oxford and which tells one a good deal about the University (not Tom Brown), "Lady Connie" by Mrs. Humphrey Wa...Clive Staples Lewis Mary Augusta WardLady ConniePrint: Book
1800-1849'Nearly the best thing she has written is L[ady] Geraldine.'Caroline Clive Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLady GeraldinePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLady Geraldine’s CourtshipUnknown
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because the...Edward Morgan Forster David GarnettLady into FoxPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for D. [David]'s little tale ["Lady into Fox"]. Its the most successful thing of the kind I have ever seen.'
[Hence follow ten lines of praise.] 		Joseph Conrad David GarnettLady into FoxPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I have been reading Juvenal & Lady Jane &ca for the first...George Gordon, Lord Byron Francis HodgsonLady Jane Grey, a Tale; and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lady Lee's Widowhood by Captain Hamley R.A. it is not so good a book as I expected, it has been praised too much; so that I do not think so much of it, as if I had never...Albert Battiscombe Edward HamleyLady Lee's WidowhoodPrint: Book


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