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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
 
1700-1799" Finished reading that Emmeline, a Trumpery novel in four volumes. If I can answer for myself I will never again undertake such a tiresome nonsensical piece of business....Lady Eleanor Butler Charlotte SmithEmmelinePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?The transition from the vapid sentimentality of the novel of fifty years ago to the goblin horrors of the last twenty is so strong that it almost puzzles us to find a co...Charles Maturin Charlotte SmithThe Old Manor HousePrint: Book
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1800-1849		?Have you seen Minor Morals by Mrs Smith ? There is in it a beautiful botanical poem called ?Calendar of Flora?.?Maria Edgeworth Charlotte SmithMinor Morals: interspersed with sketches of Nation...Print: Book
1700-1799'With a fine imagination and command of Language Charlotte Smith cannot write without Interest [.] this is an odd work. She introduces in a prettily wrought novel the mor...Anna Larpent Charlotte SmithDesmondPrint: Book
1800-1849'In 1816, left alone in Bath by her husband, Mary Shelley records reading "The Solitary Wanderer", Charlotte Smith's "Letters of a Solitary Wanderer" (1799), a collection...Mary Shelley Charlotte SmithLetters of a Solitary WandererPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "very defective" if not "positively bad" (Memoirs, p. 29...Elizabeth Carter Charlotte SmithEmmelinePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "very defective" if not "positively bad" (Memoirs, p. 29...Elizabeth Carter Charlotte SmithDesmondPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls of w'ch were about a yard thick & the windows very s...John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss WhiteCharlotte SmithCelestinaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coach, in w'ch being alone great part of the way I finis...John Marsh Charlotte SmithThe Young PhilosopherPrint: Book
1800-1849'Evening by Charlotte Smith Oh soothing hour, when glowing Day, ...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxCharlotte SmithEveningUnknown
1800-1849'in the evening walk out - read the Solitary wanderer'Mary Godwin Charlotte SmithLetters of a Solitary WandererPrint: Book
1800-1849'Return to Este. read Mrs C. Smiths novel of Emmeline'Mary Shelley Charlotte SmithEmmeline, or the Orphan of the CastlePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews'Mary Shelley Charlotte SmithEmmeline, or the Orphan of the CastlePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria E...John Wilson Croker Charlotte Smith Print: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 16 March 1826: 'In the evening after dinner read Mrs. Charlotte Smith's novel Desmond, decidedly the worst of her compositions.'Walter Scott Charlotte SmithDesmondPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our...Charlotte Yonge Print: Book
1800-1849'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel in "The Daisy Chain". Great interest was expressed by...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charlotte YongeDaisy Chain, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Charlotte /Emily/ Anne Bronte Print: Book
1850-18993 April 1887: 'Today I have been tempted to open old journals of 54 years ago. Many of the circumstances to which allusion is made in them, are now forgotten, and al...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charlotte Bertie Guestjournals of c.1833Manuscript: Unknown
1850-18994 April 1887: 'Woke early and resumed the reading [from 3 April] of the old journal. What strikes me most is that I speak several times of being tired, and once of h...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charlotte Bertie Guestjournals Manuscript: Unknown


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