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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
 
1800-1849'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliq...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][tracts published by the Religious Tract Society]Print: Broadsheet, Pamphlet
1800-1849'In a short time after, I procured the "Life of Susan Hopley", and felt disappointed at finding it to be a work of fiction.' [However, Ashford was inspired by this work t...Mary Ann Ashford Catherine CroweSusan Hopley; or the Adventures of a Maid ServantPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles Dickens. Our manager, who was a reading man, was su...Benjamin Brierley [John] [Cleave]Cleave's Weekly Police GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles Dickens. Our manager, who was a reading man, was su...Benjamin Brierley Charles DickensPickwick PapersPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1842: 'I read Mary Wolstonecraft [sic] when I was thirteen: no, twelve! .. and, through the whole course of my chi...Elizabeth Barrett Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 July 1842: 'If our dear Mr Kenyon should turn out to be bewitched [by Ellen Pickering], it was not achieved by the nove...Elizabeth Barrett Ellen PickeringnovelsPrint: Book
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
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 August 1842: 'Romilly's memoirs have interest [...] Not that I am an enthusiast about [italics]him[end italics] [...] i...Elizabeth Barrett Samuel RomillyMemoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly, Written...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 September 1842: 'My dearest friend, here is the newspaper [containing report of Mitford's laying corner stone of New Pu...Elizabeth Barrett The Berkshire ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Robert Browning to Thomas Powell, c.October 1842: 'I am highly obliged to you [...] for the two volumes of verse now on my table. I have not as yet found time for th...Robert Browning Thomas PowellpoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 October 1842: 'I had the gratification of receiving a good while ago, two copies of a volume of your writing, which I hav...William Wordsworth Elizabeth BarrettunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 29 October 1842: 'I have to thank you [...] for the sight of a very interesting letter of the Sheffield paper which I se...Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin Robert Haydonletter to the Sheffield Mercury regarding formatio...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 November 1842: 'I have been reading Mrs Trollope in the New Monthly. She is very clever there is no denying. But I do w...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeThe Barnabys in AmericaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett] had read Marryat's [...] A Diary in America, With Remarks on its Institutions (1839), in 1841'. ...Elizabeth Barrett Frederick MarryatA Diary in America, With Remarks on its Institutio...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1842: 'Mr Kenyon called yesterday [...] and he left Lady Blessington's Annual [...] The annual is fuller of tr...Elizabeth Barrett John Kenyon, Walter Savage Landor, Theodosia GarrowThe Keepsake for 1843Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was c...Elizabeth Barrett George SandunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was c...Elizabeth Barrett Eugene SueunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was c...Elizabeth Barrett Frederic SoulieunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was c...Elizabeth Barrett Louis de Maynard de QueilheunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842: 'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult of delight which your most noble Dramatic Lyrics h...Joseph and Maria ArnouldRobert BrowningBells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics)Print: Book


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