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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'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'George Eliot [pseud.] Eliakim CarmolyHistoire des M?decins JuifsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Am reading a book called: Truth on the Tragedy of France, by Elie J. Bois. He is a Frenchman and truly ashamed of all that happened.'Vere Hodgson Élie J. BoisTruth on the Tragedy of FrancePrint: Book
1700-1799'Tis th' infirmity of noblest mind When ruffled with an unexpected woe To speak what settled prudence wou'd conceal: As the vex'd oceean [sic] working in a storm Off brin...Gertrude Savile Elijah FentonMariamne. A Tragey. Acted at the Theatre Royal...Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen Elinor GlynThe Career of Catherine BushPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... [F. H. Bradley] appeared as the retired professor, Cheiron, in [Elinor] Glyn's Halcyone (1912), having assiduously read the manuscript, corrected her spelling, and ...Francis Herbert Bradley Elinor GlynHalcyoneManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ...R.L. Wild Elinor Glyn Print: Book
1900-1945'When her novels were finished, she would take them up herself to Gerald Duckworth at 3, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. She was by this time on extremely cordial terms ...Elinor Glyn Elinor Glyn[novels]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Read in afternoon and then clipped all the border for Dad. Pretty tiring work ... Bed at 12. Finished book "The Pendulum" — rather poor. Pretty tired.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker Elinor MordauntThe PendulumPrint: Book
1800-1849?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the business. My duties were to clean books and knives and br...William Edwin Adams Eliot WarburtonCrescent and the CrossPrint: Book
1850-1899'" " (not finished)' [The ditto marks are below the words 'Aug.Grand']Sarah Good Elisabeth WernerFruhlingsbotenPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1839: 'I have lately held within my hands Miss Eliza Cook's poems [...] [comments upon book's introduction and...Elizabeth Barrett Eliza CookMelaia, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It were long to tell you fully my opinion of the work, w...Thomas Carlyle Eliza DraperInscription to Raynal's 'History of the E. and W. ...Print: Book
1700-1799Lay till 11. All day alone... Lay on the bed as much as I coud. Read 2 books of the Life of the Baron Debross, an old story.Gertrude Savile Eliza HaywoodMemoirs of the Baron de Brosse, who was broke on tPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'The British Recluse'.Gertrude Savile Eliza HaywoodThe British Recluse; Or the Secret History of CleoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Catherine Talbot Eliza Haywoodvarious novelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Elizabeth Carter Eliza Haywoodvarious novelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mrs [italics] Haywood [end italics] seems to have dropped her former luscious Stile, and, for Variety, presents us with the insipid: Her [italics] Female Spectators [end...Laetitia Pilkington Eliza HaywoodFemale Spectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 11 February 1752: 'Who the author of Betsy Thoughtless is, I don't know, but his [sic] poetic justice I think very bad: he kills a...Anne Donnellan Eliza HaywoodThe History of Miss Betsy ThoughtlessPrint: Book
1800-1849'I would like well to know who is the author of ST JOHNSTON. It is rather better than ordinary. Pray does any of you know who is the editor of "The Northern Whig"? It com...James Hogg Eliza LoganSt Johnstoun; or, John, Earl of GowriePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 22 November 1848:

'I have read "Madeleine." It is a fine pearl in a simple setting. Julia Kavanagh has my esteem; I would...		Charlotte Brontë Eliza LynnAmymone (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical


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