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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'We are reading aloud Huber's "History of Bees", and the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" for the second time.'George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesElizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1800-1849'I think my introduction to the authoress of that fine book Mary Barton must be postponed.'Alfred Tennyson Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high art again, and not help to sink us in the subjectiv...Harriet Martineau Elizabeth GaskellRuthPrint: Book
1800-1849'I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high art again, and not help to sink us in the subjectiv...Harriet Martineau Elizabeth Gaskell[possibly the story, 'Stopped Payment, at Cranford...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old books in my grandmother's cottage I found a curious o...Hannah Mitchell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899''A grand old book, "The Pilgrim's Progress"! But I've something here you'll like better. "Cranford". Ever heard of it Laura? No, I thought not. Well you've got a treat i...Flora Thompson Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]': 'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [italics]Life of Miss Bronte[end italics]. Years ago, ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight: 'the...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing an incident at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, ...'Rosie' Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am so glad you liked 'Ruth'. I was so anxious about her, and took so much pains over writing it, that I lost my own power of judging, and could not tell whether I had ...R. Monckton Milnes Elizabeth GaskellRuthPrint: Book
1850-1899''Libbie Marsh' I send too; one of my cousins liked it so much that I gave it to her, and she published it on her own behalf'.Fanny Elizabeth GaskellLibbie Marsh's Three ErasPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 Auguust: 'My goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the meadow trees, flinging about [...] I read such a white dimity rice puddingy chapter of Mrs Gaskel...Virginia Woolf Elizabeth GaskellWives and DaughtersPrint: Book
1800-1849'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should always be 'getten'; &c. - In the midst of all my dee...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1850-1899'you are not coming up to a certain Mr Hibbert who is now reading Mary Barton for the [italics] fourteenth [end italics] time.'Mr Hibbert Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I'm glad she [Charlotte Bronte] likes 'North and South'. I did not think Margaret was so over good. What would Miss B. say to Florence Nightingale? I can't imagine!'Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth GaskellNorth and SouthPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take "Cranford" and - I was...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take "Cranford" and - I was...John Ruskin Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take "Cranford" and - I was...Margaret Ruskin Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850: 'For Mary Barton, I am a little, little disappointed, do you know. I have just done reading it. T...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Sylvia's Lovers 1863, though I have not finished it, has been an eye-opener after the twitterings of Cranford. The sensuousness of the sailor, the characterisation, with...Edward Morgan Forster Elizabeth GaskellSylvia's LoversPrint: Book


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