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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 August 1842: 'As to Charlotte Elizabeth -- yes, I have read that little book you speak of, & several of her little book...Elizabeth Barrett Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna'little books'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea...Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. YongeThe Chaplet of PearlsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea...Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1850-1899" ... tears filled ... [D. G. Rossetti's] eyes as he read about Guy Morville's death in The Heir of Redclyffe."Dante Gabriel Rossetti Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1850-1899" ... Charles Kingsley ... told ... [its] publisher that ... [Heartsease] was 'the most delightful and wholesome novel I ever read ... I found myself wiping my eyes a doz...Charles Kingsley Charlotte M. YongeHeartseasePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"The Prime Minister's daughter Violet Asquith read ... [The Heir of Redclyffe] seven times 'from cover to cover -- never failing to cry at the end' ..."Violet Asquith Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1850-1899F. T. Palgrave on a tour of the West Country with Tennyson in late summer 1867: 'Our way lay right across Dartmoor, desolate and eerie even under the brightest sun, to...Alfred Tennyson Charlotte M. Yonge Print: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Charlotte M. YongeThe Pigeon PiePrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Charlotte M. YongeThe Caged Lion Print: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Charlotte M. YongeThe Little Duke Print: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Charlotte M. YongeThe Armourer’s Apprentice Print: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is...Rose Macaulay Charlotte Mary YongeThe Prince and the PagePrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's...Florence Barclay Charlotte Mary YongeThe Little DukePrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Charlotte Mary YongeThe Little DukePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sorts of people, exactly as if I were reading a story ab...Gwen Raverat Charlotte Mary YongeThe Daisy ChainPrint: Book
1850-1899'My mother had a school-board pupil-teacher to read aloud to her during part of the winter; she wrote: ''I embarked with her in such a frivolous novel all about flirtatio...Emma Darwin Charlotte Mary Yonge Print: Book
1850-1899'I have not been able to ride the last few days because it has been so hot. We have finished "The Voyage of the Constance" and it is so pretty, we are reading "The Prince...Gertrude Bell Charlotte Mary Yonge The Prince and the Page: A story of the last Crusa...Print: Book
1900-1945Brief summary of notes on inside front cover, and marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Charlotte Perkins GilmanHuman WorkPrint: Book
1900-1945Some marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Home: Its Work and InfluencePrint: Book
1700-1799'Having heard the work of another virtuous woman writer, Catherine Trotter Cockburn, was to be published, [Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] displayed great interest...Elizabeth Carter Charlotte Trotter CockburnworksPrint: Book


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