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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
 
1850-1899"Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S...Robert Blatchford Charlotte, Anne, Emily BrontenovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945I am told that in a book of Sir Chartres Biron there is a passage against book censorship. Can you give me the reference to this passage? One of them is entitled 'Pious...Arnold Bennett Chartres BironPious OpinionsPrint: Book
1900-1945I have read 'To the Pure', in the American edition, and I brought it into an article for the Standard which I wrote and delivered before the summons was taken out. As th...Arnold Bennett Chartres BironTo the PurePrint: Book
1850-1899'My dear Norton, since I wrote to you last, I have read Mr Chauncey Wright?s book or nearly all & - to say the truth ? found it a tolerably thorough morsel. It is like wa...Leslie Stephen Chauncey WrightPhilosophical DiscussionsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘The Rydal Mount family...They were all hugely belly-ached with Townshend’s articles in Blackwood, which was almost as silly as the articles themselves. C. H. Townshend...Hartley Coleridge Chauncey Hare Townshend[essays in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Out with May. She left me in Reading Room when she went about housemaid — read daily graphic[.] Took out "Through Central Africa from East to West". Very gratifying acco...Harriet Bickersteth Cook Cherry KeartonThrough Central Africa from East to WestPrint: Book
1900-1945'Copied extracts p 93 of Kerton's [sic] E.A. [Through Central Africa from East to West]'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Cherry KeartonThrough Central Africa from East to WestPrint: Book
1900-1945I have now read 'Mr Moffat'. If the author is very young I regard it as a pretty sound book. Fundamentally true throughout, with a good plot well constructed and improvi...Arnold Bennett Chester Francis CobbMr MoffatPrint: Book
1800-1849James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of 1826, a friend made me a present of an old edition o...James Dawson Burn Chevalier RamsayLife of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Farewell Mephistocles--Luke Makey de la Touche Richard the 3 Valmont Machiavelli Napoleon [Prival?] the Wicked Duke of Orleans--for you are a little like them all'..Lady Caroline Lamb Choderlos de LaclosLes Liaisons DangereusesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday May [...] 30th. [...] After dinner Mr. Gambs reads aloud his tale of Skold. It pleases me very much -- Its principal charm is the naturalness of [...] its desc...Claire Clairmont Chretien-Hermann GambsSkoldUnknown
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] After dinner M. Gambs reads aloud the 3, 4, 5, and 6th. Canto of Moses [goes on to comment upon this text in detail].'Claire Clairmont Chretien-Hermann GambsMoses (Cantos 3, 4, 5, 6)Unknown
1800-1849'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.'Claire Clairmont Chretien-Hermann GambsLecture on Modern HistoryUnknown
1900-1945'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow...Ruth Slate Christabel PankhurstThe Great ScourgePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christian WolffLogic, or rational thoughts on the powers of the h...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Renaldini - talk with Shelley- in very bad spirits but get better'.Mary Godwin Christian August VulpiusRinaldo Rinaldini, der RauberhauptmannPrint: Book
1800-1849'Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spirits'.Mary Godwin Christian August VulpiusRinaldo Rinaldini, der RauberhauptmannPrint: Book
1850-1899Catherine Winkworth to Emma Shaen, 23 March 1853:

'I made up my mind not to write to you again till I had read "Villette" and now I have finished it [...] ...		Catherine Winkworth Christian Charles Josias BunsenHippolytus and His Age (vols 1-3)Print: Book
1850-1899'She [Florence Nightingale] never reads any books now. she has not time for it, to begin with; and secondly she says life is so vivid that books seem poor. The latter vol...Florence Nightingale Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christian Franz PaulliniChristiani Francisci Paullini disquisitio curiosaPrint: Book


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