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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'P.S. Have begun the "Professor" and have read as far as the hero's arrival at Brussels. It is shaping very well. I believe you have read it have you not - J'Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte BrontėThe ProfessorPrint: Book
1900-1945'I ... have also re-read Jane Eyre from beginning to end — it is a magnificent novel. Some of those long, long dialogues between her and Rochester are really like duets...Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte BrontėJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'Aug. (Grand)'Sarah Good Charlotte BrontėJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'Villette'Sarah Good Charlotte BrontėVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'The Professor'Sarah Good Charlotte BrontėThe ProfessorPrint: Book
1800-1849''Friday Sept. 15th. [...] Read Irish Poetry translated by Miss Brooke'. Claire Clairmont Charlotte BrookeReliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poe...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. 20th. [...] Read Miss Brooke's Irish poetry. [...] '[...] finish Miss Brooke's Irish poetry'. [goes on to reproduce passages from the following ...Claire Clairmont Charlotte BrookeReliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poe...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am often ashamed when I read over what I have written, to see how I allow my mind to wander, and my pen to note down so many of its vagaries. Yet I never have resoluti...Charlotte Bury Charlotte BuryDiaryManuscript: MS journal
1900-1945'[she thinks her own writing] was almost always imitation of what I had read. I realised the immense difference between Charlotte's work and my own. Charlotte [d'Erlanger...Antonia White Charlotte d'Erlanger[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure; and we chang...Austen familyCharlotte LennoxThe Female Quixote, or, the Adventures of ArabellaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which sh...Jane Austen Charlotte LennoxFemale Quixote, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?It would be necessary to notice here, when we profess to give a sketch of the progress of novel or romance writing, as indication of and connected with the state of mann...Charles Robert Maturin Charlotte LennoxThe Female QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Elizabeth Carter Charlotte LennoxHenriettaPrint: Book
1700-1799'"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do you not think, however her heroine over-acts her par...Samuel Richardson Charlotte LennoxThe Female QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799'"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do you not think, however her heroine over-acts her par...Samuel Richardson Charlotte LennoxThe Life of Harriet Stuart, Written by HerselfPrint: Book
1700-1799'"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do you not think, however her heroine over-acts her par...Charlotte LennoxThe Female QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox [sic], Smollet & Fieldin...Hester Lynch Thrale Charlotte LennoxFemale Quixote, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752: 'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amusement, "The Female Quixote;" the few chapters I read...Catherine Talbot Charlotte LennoxThe Female QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [1758]:] '"Henrietta" has been useful to us here, but there are many things in it that I dislike, and that tally with my opinion ...Catherine Talbot and familyCharlotte LennoxHenriettaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Charlotte [Mew] used to read [...] [lines from her 1912 poem "The Changeling", in which a child speaker ponders reasons for its own existence] aloud [...] to children of...Charlotte Mew Charlotte Mew'The Changeling'Print: Unknown


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