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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'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the retur...James Mackintosh Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverle...James Mackintosh Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899"[George] Meredtih's penultimate novel, Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894), was, [Henry] James told Edmund Gosse [in letter of 22 August 1894], 'unspeakable' ... he could ...Henry James George MeredithLord Ormont and his AmintaPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 22 August 1894: " ... I have vowed not to open Lourdes [by Zola] till I shall have closed with a furious bang the unspeakable Lord Ormont, wh...Henry James George MeredithLord Ormont and His AmintaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Beaverbrook vetted all the politics, finding only two or three small slips in the entire novel, which is a tribute to his briefing and to Bennett's attention.'Lord Beaverbrook Arnold BennettLord RaingoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading an old book — Lord Riddell's diary. Mentions Churchill a lot, and one can see his ideas have been maintained over the years.'Vere Hodgson George RiddellLord Riddell's War Diary: 1914-1918Print: Book
1850-1899'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite...Edwin Muir Thomas CampbellLord Ullin's DaughterPrint: Book
1900-1945'I hadn't turned over the 3rd page when I let out a whistle of respectful admiration.' Hence follows a page of praise with one minor reservation.Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettLords and MastersPrint: playscript
1850-1899"Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed."Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899"Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book."Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899"Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much."Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899"Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair with early promise, having shelter from the wind an...Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "David Copperfield", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Lorna...questionaire respondent Richard Doddridge BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton Richard Doddridge BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Lorna Doone" and loved it. Must try to get it next hols.'Hilary Spalding R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1900-1945'I get "Lorna Doone". It is a good book so far.'Thomas Kitching Richard Doddridge BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Richard Doddridge BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Richard Doddridge BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Jan. 2nd. 1820 Florence Read a little Spanish -- Los Cabellos de [...] Absalon de Calderon de la Barca.'Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLos Cabellos de AbsalonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.'Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLos Cabellos de AbsalonPrint: Book


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