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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
 
1700-1799'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I think that essay does her honour." Johnson. "Yes, Sir;...Joshua Reynolds Elizabeth MontaguEssay on the Writings and Genius of ShakespearPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I think that essay does her honour." Johnson. "Yes, Sir;...David Garrick Elizabeth MontaguEssay on the Writings and Genius of ShakespearPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.Thomas Babington Macaulay Elizabeth Montague[essay on Shakespeare]Print: 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 Elizabeth RobinsThe Magnetic NorthPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter to Miss Dunbar May 17 1803 'You must have felt some of the pains and penalties of authorship, to have any ideas of the cordial satisfaction I derived from reading ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Elizabeth Rose of KilravockunknownUnknown
1700-1799'[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excitedly about an almost forgotten Katherine Phillips, "t...Catherine Talbot Elizabeth RoweworksPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excitedly about the almost forgotten Katherine Philips, th...Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth RoweworksPrint: Book
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter Elizabeth Rowe[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitated or tried to imitate, the copiousness and luxurianc...Samuel Johnson Elizabeth Rowe[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 20 November 1779:] 'A thousand thanks to you, my dear Mrs Vesey, for your charming Ode, which breathes all the spirit of that wil...Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth Vesey'Ode'Unknown
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell Elizabeth von ArminVeraPrint: Book
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell Elizabeth von ArminVeraPrint: Book
1900-1945"This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness came on him": MS note in the hand of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, GOT's son. George Otto Trevelyan Elizabeth Von ArnimChristopher and ColumbusPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been looking over some very old letters of hers [sister Elizabeth], and it is not a very cheeerful occupation...'Emma Darwin Elizabeth Wedgwood[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I have been reading such old letters of my mother's, about going to school; it is like looking into a forgotten picture of myself.'Emma Darwin Elizabeth Wedgwood[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Amy Barlow, writing of the late 1890s, recalls how her mother seemed to have a vivid memory of her childhood reading, and would recommend enthusiastically to her daughte...Amy Barlow Elizabeth WetherellThe Old HelmetPrint: Book
1850-1899'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wide World".'Flora Thompson Elizabeth WetherellQueechyPrint: Book
1850-1899'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide, Wide World".'Flora Thompson Elizabeth WetherellThe Wide, Wide WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:

'Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation [in year following the death...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth WhatelyEnglish Life, Social and Domestic, in the 19th Cen...Print: Book
1850-1899Ditto marks under the words: 'March at S. Martin's Lodge Scarborough'. Also, 'part of' is written before the title 'Lectures on the Creed'.Sarah Good Elizabeth WordsworthIllustrations of the CreedPrint: Book


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