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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'Stopped at home all the evening really fascinated with Bulwer's "My Novel", got in fact so excited with the story that I became unable quietly to read on regularly, but ...John Buckley Castieau Edward Bulwer LyttonMy NovelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Came home read a little of my Novel smoked a Cigar and went quietly to bed.'John Buckley Castieau Edward Bulwer LyttonMy NovelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Spent the evening at home reading "Night & Morning".'John Buckley Castieau Edward Bulwer LyttonNight and MorningPrint: Book
1800-1849'i have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so still. It is a glorious thing. I like Bulwer's too, v...Mary Howitt Edward Bulwer LyttonRienziPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846: 'I forgot quite to quarrel with you a little about Sir E Lytton Bulwer [sic] -- because indeed I dislike his...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Edward Bulwer Lytton'Confessions and Observations of a Water-Patient'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening Polly was so deeply interested in a ghost story written by Lord Lytton & said to be the foundation of a "Strange Story" by that nobleman that she left eve...Polly Castieau Edward Bulwer Lytton[ghost story]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hou...Zoe Procter Edward Bulwer Lytton[poetry]Print: Book
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister: "...I have read Paine, and Valney, and Holyoake...anon Edward Bulwer-Lytton Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849 [Letter to Aunt dated 3 February 1832] I do not think any books so bad to read as a newspaper. [...]If you ever read novels, do send for Eugene Aram. Miss Hobart and I h...Anne Lister Edward Bulwer-LyttonEugene Aram. A Tale by the Author of 'Pelham'Print: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent Edward Bulwer-Lytton[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Emily Bronte, diary paper for 26 June 1837: 'Monday evening June 26 1837 A bit past 4 o'clock Charolotte [sic] working in Aunts room Branwell reading "Eugene Aram" to...Branwell Bronte Edward Bulwer-LyttonEugene AramPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been seeking 'Falkland' here for a long time without success. Those beautiful extracts of it which you showed me at Tealby haunted me incessantly.'Alfred Tennyson Edward Bulwer-LyttonFalklandsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I don't know whether I shall lose your good opinion forever if I tell you a true thing; but I had rather you knew the worst: - that I am intensely enjoying, this day or ...Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer-LyttonLost Tales of Miletus, ThePrint: Book
1850-189919 May 1854: 'My birthday [...] No cause of congratulations to me, alas, to have completed another year, when more than ever I should wish to be as young as I feel ......Lady Charlotte Guest Edward Bulwer-LyttonMy NovelPrint: Unknown
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 6 August 1846: 'The "Modern Timon" is not, I think, by a [italics]poet[end italics], but it is the work of a clever man, an...John Gibson Lockhart Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe New TimonPrint: Book
1800-1849'How detestably Sir Edward Bulwer speaks of Shelley in his life of Schiller. - he thinks to gain popularity by truckling to the times - and mistakes the spirit of the tim...Mary Shelley Edward Bulwer-Lytton[biograpohical sketch in] Poems and Ballads of Sch...Print: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Edward Bulwer-LyttonLast Days of PompeiiPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 November 1849:

'I have read the "Caxtons," I have looked at "Fanny Hervey," I think I will not write wh...		Charlotte Brontë Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe Caxtons: A Family PicturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Still here [in camp] doing nothing and enjoying books. One book Ernest Maltravers by Lytton has impressed me very much.'John Owen Maddox Edward Bulwer-LyttonErnest MaltraversPrint: Book
1900-1945'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk...Desmond Malone Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe Haunted and the HauntersPrint: Book


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